<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In my excitement about Ligers, I failed to mention a very significant data point: This month, the JUG will be held at the OKC Coworking Collaborative at 7th and Hudson, downtown. For directions, please see this map:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://okccoco.com/?page_id=109">http://okccoco.com/?page_id=109</a></div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks to Derrick Parkhurst and the rest of the CoCo crew for their hospitality in hosting this month's session.</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Jason Lee wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good afternoon! We are one week away from the April meeting of the Oklahoma City JUG. This month, Les Martin will be presenting "Griffon: A Crash Course." From its website (<a href="http://griffon.codehaus.org/)">http://griffon.codehaus.org/)</a>, "Griffon is a Grails like application framework for developing desktop applications in Groovy." If you're still not convinced this is something you might want to come check out, here's some more insight into Griffon, taken from their old home page (<a href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/Griffon">http://groovy.codehaus.org/Griffon</a>):<div><br></div><div><div>Why Griffon?</div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Liger was taken, apparently (<a href="http://halogenlabs.com/images/jruby.jpg">http://halogenlabs.com/images/jruby.jpg</a>).</li><li>Griffons have large talons.</li><li>Excellent skills in jump and spot (<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/griffon.htm">http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/griffon.htm</a>) as well.</li><li>It's a mashup, of an Eagle and a Cougar</li></ul></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">(since all of the Griffon committers are in North America right now, we are referring to the New World animals, instead of the traditional Eagle and Lion. We could have also gone with the Puma, Mountain Lion, or Panther instead, but I thought Cougars were the most majestic of the North American big cats.)</blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>If you plan on attending, and I really don't see how you can turn it down after all that, please remember to register: <a href="http://okcjug.org/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=33">http://okcjug.org/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=33</a></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Jason Lee, SCJP</div><div>Senior Java Developer, Sun Microsystems</div><div>Mojarra and Mojarra Scales Dev Team</div><div><a href="https://mojarra.dev.java.net">https://mojarra.dev.java.net</a></div><div><a href="https://scales.dev.java.net">https://scales.dev.java.net</a></div><div><a href="http://blogs.steeplesoft.com">http://blogs.steeplesoft.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Jason Lee, SCJP</div><div>Senior Java Developer, Sun Microsystems</div><div>Mojarra and Mojarra Scales Dev Team</div><div><a href="https://mojarra.dev.java.net">https://mojarra.dev.java.net</a></div><div><a href="https://scales.dev.java.net">https://scales.dev.java.net</a></div><div><a href="http://blogs.steeplesoft.com">http://blogs.steeplesoft.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>