We are back at the Tivoli in 320 A/B for the August Meeting. Schedule: 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Food, and Networking. 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Basic Concepts/First Session 7:00 – 7:15 p.m. Announcements 7:15 – 8:45 p.m. Main/Featured Presentation 8:45 p.m. Door prizes Featured Presentation: “Software Development on the Android Platform” – Bryan Noll Here is the slide deck from Bryan’s presentation: Tour of Android Summary: Bryan will be drawing on the experience he recently gained by releasing an app to the Android Market. He will share with you what he learned about the APIs he had to use. This will include but may not be limited to the following Android APIs: Contacts, Sms, Maps and Location.
Some details about the process of getting an app into the Android Market and making it available for purchasing will also be covered. Hopefully he’ll be able to share a few things that aren’t readily available in books and quick web searches… the kind of things that seem to only expose themselves once you’ve dug in, done what the documentation says you should do, then find out you’ve got to do something a little bit differently in order to get the stuff working. About the Speaker: Bryan Noll has been developing software for nearly a decade now. His technical experience is in Java, JavaScript, Grails, Rails and the standard stack of web tools.
He’s done both the server side and client side thing. His non-technical approach is to simply do stuff well – thoroughly and efficiently – with an entrepreneurial spirit, communicating clearly the entire time. Lately he’s enjoyed getting into the mobile space by dorking around with Android development.
For further professional info, feel free to see his LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bryannoll First Presentation: “iText” – Greg Holling Here’s the slide deck: August 2010 iText Presentation I had to put the code on our Yahoo site due to limitations within WordPress. Here’s the link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/djug/files/Presentations/iText-Code.zip Summary: The iText library (http://www.itextpdf.com) can be used to generate PDF files on the fly. The library has multiple levels of abstraction, some of which can be confusing, and the documentation is not always adequate or complete.
Greg will show an iText example from a recent servlet/JSP-based project, and will discuss lessons learned and potential gotchas. About the Speaker: Greg Holling is a Denver-based independent software consultant, mentor, and trainer. He has been developing software with Java since it was in beta, and has mentored and trained Java developers at Fortune 500 companies locally and nationwide.