Queensland JVM Group

Interested in Java and other languages that work on the JVM? This is the group for you - formerly the QJUG (Queensland Java Users Group) we are now expanded to cover all languages and technologies that work on the JVM.

Current meetings are:

Lunchtime Meetup: 12pm-1pm, last Monday of the Month. L1, 388 Queens St Brisbane (unless otherwise)
Evening Meetup: 5pm for 5:30 start. Level 14, 300 Ann Street Brisbane. See meetup site for dates
Gold Coast Evening Meetup: Times to be advised. University Centre, Bond University, Robina.

If you are in other locations in Queensland and would like to run meetings, please get in touch.

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Brisbane Lunchtime Meetup: Introduction To Gradle

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Craig will give the Introduction To Gradle talk he gave at the GR8 Mini-conf at OSDC 2011. He will offer a comparison with Ant and Maven and explain what it is about... Learn more

Hosted by: Steve Dalton (Organizer), and Craig Aspinall (Co-Organizer)

This Meetup repeats on the last Monday of every month

Brisbane Lunchtime meetup	1 attending	Mon Mar 26, 12:00 PM
Brisbane Lunchtime meetup	1 attending	Mon Apr 30, 12:00 PM
Brisbane Lunchtime meetup	1 attending	Mon May 28, 12:00 PM

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January 30 at 12:00 PM, 10 jvmers attended
Brisbane Lunchtime meetup: Messaging With Bunnies (RabbitMQ)
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Steve is going to give the talk he gave at OSDC 2011 about RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ is an open source message broker, using the standard Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (... Learn more
December 5, 2011 at 4:30 PM, 15 jvmers attended
Cameron Purdy (Oracle VP Development) - JavaOne RockStar
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Ok, with YOW in mind, and this is the only time, I have organised for Cameron for the JUG, the session will go from 4.30 - 5.30. Option to stay around if you want a... Learn more
November 28, 2011 at 12:00 PM, 7 jvmers attended
JavaFX 2: Dan Zwolenski
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The talk today will cover an introduction to JavaFX by Daniel Zwolenski (Zonski for short). He'll be backed up by Jonathan Giles, a developer at Oracle in the JavaFX... Learn more
November 15, 2011 at 9:00 AM, 20 jvmers attended
GR8Conf AU at Open Source Developers Conference
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We are organising a 1 day version of the successful GR8Conf taking part as a miniconf on the second day of OSDC in Canberra. All welcome, you need a ticket for OSDC to... Learn more
October 31, 2011 at 12:00 PM, 13 jvmers attended
Lightning Talks
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I found it enjoyable. A general Q&A at the end would have been good. But we all had to run off to other places

—Derek Pakuza

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Great format for getting oodles of new stuff to investigate.

—Paul Marrington