The Colorado Springs Open Source Software Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 PM - Food, Drinks & Networking
6:30 - 6:35 PM - Announcements
6:35 - 7:15 PM - Basic Concepts
7:15 - 7:20 PM - Break
7:20 - 8:40 PM - Main Speaker
8:40 - 8:55 PM - Door Prize Drawings

MAIN TOPIC ABSTRACT
The Evented Web

It's an amazing time to be developing software for the masses! Mobile devices, on-demand services, APIs, user generated content and an unfathomable amount of data are blowing up traditional web technologies. Users' expectations are borderline perverse! Interservice event-driven capabilities are enabling a new class of realtime, loosely coupled integrations and applications. Learn how webhooks, websockets, node.js and cloud-based internet services are enabling next-generation internet applications.

MAIN SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Mike Brevoort

Mike Brevoort is a software developer/hacker/architect whose current interests are the realtime evented web, Javascript, node.js, HTML5, Groovy, web scale, and anything new and different. He's an occasional speaker and blogger for TheNextWeb.com. He works at Pearson eCollege in Centennial and lives in Castle Rock, CO. He loves hiking, camping, enjoying the Colorado outdoors, all types of cycling and spending time with his family.

BASIC CONCEPTS ABSTRACT
The Java Virtual Machine

WIth the growth of languages running on the Java platform the JVM has become a central element of our computing environments. Ironically, most developers don't actually know all that much about the JVM and how it executes code. In this session we are going to look at the JVM itself and answer some general questions: What is actually in a Class File? What do the byte code instructions actually do? What is done in class file Verification? How are multiple cores supported? How do the new generation of languages take advantage of, or hindered by the JVM? These and other questions will be covered in this summary of the JVM specification.

BASIC CONCEPTS SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
John Lowe

John Lowe is a President of NAND Gate Technologies LLC, a software development and consulting company. John's area of expertise includes embedded systems and hardware/software interaction. John has been developing embedded systems for the past 15 years including, robotics, analytical instrumentation and medical monitoring applications. He has been working with Java since 1996, and has been attending Java User groups in the Denver/Boulder area for 12 years.

OUR SPONSORS
Website Sponsor:
Homeland Security Careers (http://hshdcareers.com)
Food Sponsor:
vmware (http://www.vmware.com/)
Door Prize Sponsors:
Jetbrains (http://www.jetbrains.com/) Software license (Several products to choose from)
JavaRebel (http://www.javarebel.com) Software license
Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com) Technical books or Food
OReilly Publishing (http://www.oreilly.com) Technical books