[Steering Committee] Fw: JetBrains JUG Leader Journal, Premier Issue
Brett L. Schuchert
schuchert at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 23 08:36:47 PDT 2007
I can do the Hello Java with a simple concurrency thing.
Then I could kick it up a notch and discuss some of the java 5 stuff,
deadlock avoidance, livelock, starvation, latches, that kind of stuff.
Brett
On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Brian Sheldon wrote:
> My vote - Brett & concurrency (money convicted felons use?). awesome.
>
> we've had requests for more expert topics and concurrency.
>
> Brian
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Brett L. Schuchert <schuchert at yahoo.com>
> To: OKC JUG Steering Committee Mailing List <sc at lists.okcjug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:58:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Steering Committee] Fw: JetBrains JUG Leader Journal,
> Premier Issue
>
> Kewl.
>
> Hey, right now I'm not scheduled to be on the road the JUG week in
> September. I've been writing a new class for Object Mentor on
> concurrency in Java using, among other things, Java 5 stuff (like
> the Executor Framework and Atomic Integers). Teaching it for the
> first time next week...
>
> Assuming I'm still in town, I'd be happy to do either a Hello Java
> or a full presentation.
>
> Brett
> On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Brian Sheldon wrote:
>
>> We're famous!
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> From: David Booth <jugs at jetbrains.com>
>> To: Brian <brian_s_sheldon at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:28:14 AM
>> Subject: JetBrains JUG Leader Journal, Premier Issue
>>
>> Hello Brian,
>>
>> Welcome to the premier issue of the JUG Leader Journal, JetBrains´
>> official newsletter for JUG leaders.
>>
>> After speaking with JUG leaders from Norway to New York, and
>> Nevada to New Zealand, we´ve found that JUG leaders aroundthe
>> globe deal with similar issues: organization, attendance,
>> sponsorship, and arranging speakers and events. We´veteamed up
>> with supporting JUG leaders to tackle some of these issues, as
>> well as provide you with a whole bunch ofuseful information.
>>
>> Looking for interesting ideas for your JUG meetings? We´ve got you
>> covered. Every issue includes a Tips ´n´ Trickssection — with
>> ideas submitted by JUG leaders from around the world — devoted to
>> makingyour meetings unique, interesting,and more valuable for your
>> members.
>>
>> Is your JUG giving away free licenses of IntelliJ IDEA? We´re
>> always happy to show our support with donations, and sincethe
>> release of IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 Milestone 2 (which happened on August
>> 13th) we´re able to give away IntelliJ IDEA 6.0licenses that come
>> with a free upgrade to the full version of IDEA 7.0. So, if you´re
>> already giving away licenses, feelfree to mention that the next
>> licenses you give away come with a free upgrade: and if you´re not
>> giving away theselicenses, see below for details. Also, all JUG
>> Leaders can receive a license of IDEA for free, so let me know if
>> you´dlike one :)
>>
>> Finally, tell us if you´d prefer to receive this email in text or
>> HTML format, so we can accommodate yourpreferences.
>>
>> Contents in this Issue
>>
>> A quick, 10-second JetQuestion
>> Tips´n´Tricks for interesting meetings — We take a look at the OKC
>> JUG for one idea on how to build community interaction and
>> education into a 2-4 hour workshop.
>> JetBrains JUG Support — free licenses of IntelliJ IDEA, speakers,
>> and more
>>
>> We hope you enjoy the premier issue and look forward to your
>> feedback. If your JUG recently had an interesting meetingor
>> workshop please let us know about it, and we´ll share your idea
>> with the whole community. Write tojugs at jetbrains.com, or skype me
>> at davidboothjetbrain.
>>
>> Develop with pleasure,
>> Dave Booth
>> Editor-in-Chief, JUG Leader Journal
>> jugs at jetbrains.com
>>
>> Contributors
>>
>> Brett Schuchert: Senior Trainer, Mentor and Consultant, Object
>> Mentor — OKCJUG
>> Brian Sheldon: Steering Committee — OKCJUG
>> Britt King — JetBrains
>>
>> Part 1: A Quick JetQuestion
>>
>> In which format would you prefer to receive this newsletter?
>> Please click one of the following, to send me a quick email about it:
>> I don´t care which format
>> HTML
>> Text
>> I don´t want to receive the JUG Leader Newsletter
>>
>> Part 2: JUG Tips ´n´ Tricks - Spotlight on Oklahoma City JUG (OKCJUG)
>>
>> Brett Schuchert and Brian Sheldon of the OKCJUG shared with us a
>> successful and interesting JUG meeting they hadrecently over Agile
>> Requirements Exploration.
>>
>> Here´s the original outline:
>> http://schuchert.wikispaces.com/Agile+Requirements+Exploration
>> +Workshop
>>
>> They began the workshop by splitting their JUG into groups of
>> four. Each group picked one member to play the role ofproduct
>> owner while the other three members played the role of developers.
>> Brett then handed each group a two-pagedproblem statement — page
>> one was for the whole group, but only the product owner was
>> allowed to see page two. Here´s oneof the various problem
>> statements they used:
>>
>> ITunes® Competitor, page 1
>>
>> Your company has recently acquired another company, which has
>> designed yet another IPod® killer. The hardware will beavailable
>> for preliminary shipment in 2 months but there is not really any
>> kind of support for selling music. Yourcompany has agreements with
>> several record labels to be able to sell DCMA´ed versions of songs
>> but not much of a webpresence in this arena.
>> The marketing department of your company has decided to take these
>> two assets, record label agreements and this new, asyet unnamed
>> IPod® killer, and produce a customer experience similar to
>> ITunes®.You have approximately 2,5-3 months to produce some kind
>> of web presence that will make using this new device fun forits
>> target audience.
>>
>> ITunes® Competitor Product Owner, page 2
>>
>> During initial discussions with the product owner, a few things
>> may become clear (if asked):
>> Size (Gigs) and Style of the players
>> The cost
>> The target market
>> Online Goals of the firm
>> Possible Customizations
>> Site requirements and goals
>> Supported file formats
>> External contract information
>> They want their client to be able to rip music as well. They have
>> licenses a product to do that for both the PC and the MAC.
>>
>> In round 1, each group was given a fixed amount of time (9-
>> minutes) to read the problem statement and brainstorm"interesting
>> things the system could do that would be of value to a user." Nine
>> minutes later, the groupsprovided twostories each in a round-robin
>> fashion, one at a time. About his own group, Brian said, "my group
>> came up with thefollowing: lyrics to songs as they play, VHF pop-
>> up type videos, download music, upload music, sell music I
>> wrote,parental controls," etc. "We then tried to fit one of these
>> ideas into ´Person x wants to y because z´ — so ´amusicianwants to
>> upload or sell his music so he can become rich and famous´ was one
>> of our results."
>>
>> This exercise has rounds 2,3, and a "user acceptance testing
>> round", but it´s way too long for our quicknewsletter. If you´d
>> like to know more,just send me an email at jugs at jetbrains.com, and
>> I´ll send you the rest of it. If you´ve had an interesting
>> meetingrecently, or would like to share your ideas & tips with us,
>> let me know about it at jugs at jetbrains.com
>>
>> Part 3: JUG Support - License Giveaway Program
>>
>> We´re pleased to announce that the License Giveaway program has
>> been extended until the end of December 2007. All activeJUGs who
>> qualify can give away one personal license of IntelliJ IDEA to
>> your speaker each month (as a reward for takinglle time to present
>> to the community), and a personal license to a lucky member (as a
>> reward for attending the event).If you´re already giving away
>> licenses, you can continue to do so until December 2007. If your
>> JUG is not giving awayfree Personal Licenses of IntelliJ IDEA yet,
>> or if you are a JUG Leader and you don´t have a license of IDEA
>> with thefree upgrade to 7.0, just send me an email:
>> jugs at jetbrains.com and I´ll includeyou in the program.
>>
>> PS — All licenses that we give away from now until December 31st
>> will include a free upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 7.0: that´swhat you
>> guys get for being on the edge of innovation!
>>
>> PS2 (no copyright infringement here... no sir) — Everyone who is
>> using IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, can use the IntelliJ 7.0Milestone
>> releases for free until December 31st, 2007. For more info, check
>> out the most recent release here:http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
>> nextversion/index.html?java_JUGnewsletter
>>
>> New features include: Spring, Hibernate, and Eclipse support, and
>> Milestone 2 comes with access to the Groovy and Grailsplugin,
>> JetGroovy, as well as upgrades to pretty much everything IDEA is
>> known for. Plus, it´s faster :)
>>
>> Thanks for Reading!
>>
>> It´s been a busy year for the JetBrains team and now summer is
>> upon us: with it, dreams of vacations. I just got backfrom my trip
>> rafting down the Ottawa River, so I hope you´ve got something
>> great planned for yourself as well!
>>
>> Develop With Pleasure,
>> The JetBrains Team
>> jugs at jetbrains.com
>> http://www.jetbrains.com/?java_jlj1
>>
>>
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