The New York City Java Meetup Group

April Java Meetup Special Guests: Bill Venners and Dick Wall

April 30, 2012 · 6:30 PM
B&N

Opening speaker: Timothy Fagan

Featured Speakers: Bill Venners and Dick Wall

Bios:

Dick Wall is a veteran Java software engineer with over 3 years of full time Scala experience. He focuses primarily on enterprise applications with a strong science and mathematics bias. He is co-host of the Java Posse podcast, founder and co-organizer of the Bay Area Scala enthusiasts, and the creator of the open-source SubCut library, a pragmatic approach to dependency resolution in Scala.

Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc. a site dedicated to enterprise development matters in the Java space. Is is author of ScalaTest, an extensive and flexible Scala testing library. In addition, Bill is the editor and co-author (with Martin Odersky and Lex Spoon) of the Programming in Scala book and has been using Scala full time for over three years. Together Bill and Dick run Escalate Software, offering Scala training and consultancy services.

Topics:

Scalatest 2.0 and "An Engineer's Guide to the Scala Community"

Thanks to Barnes&Noble for hosting the location and refreshments and the door prize!

PLEASE UPDATE RSVP if you can no longer attend.

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Yuliya Falkovich

I've written a blog entry about this event. Just wanted to share with the group:
http://yuliyafalk.sqsp.com/2012...

0 · May 4, 2012
Bryan Wong

It was a very informative meetup, some times the basics just need to be reviewed

0 · May 1, 2012
Whitney Phillips

Good presentations. Allowed for partcipation and questions.

0 · May 1, 2012
Yuliya Falkovich

Great meetup. I especially enjoyed the fact that we got to socialize with event speakers afterwards.

0 · May 1, 2012
Gergely Puskas

first Java meetup in NY for me, good presenters and organizastion, really welcomed the presentation about people skills.

0 · May 1, 2012
Jason Loup

Incredibly accomplished panel and great questions from the audience. Thanks!

0 · May 1, 2012
Yuliya Falkovich

Is there an exact schedule of how long this meetup and each presentation would run?

0 · April 30, 2012
r.j. shepherd

Wow. This is going to be great.

0 · April 19, 2012
Dario Laverde

wait list turned on - please note date change again - but this date and location is now finalized - details on speakers / topics forthcoming - if you can no longer make the date - please update your RSVP!. Apologies for the date changes as we get back on track!

0 · April 4, 2012
Antony Stubbs

Can you turn on the wait list please?

0 · April 3, 2012
Ed Petner

I am an entrepreneur competing for over $20,000 in prizes at the Startup Weekend in Stamford, CT at the end of March. Any other Developers interested in joining my team or forming your own? - check it out at stamford.startupweekend.org

0 · March 18, 2012