Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:43:18 -0400 (EDT) From: NEJUG President Subject: Nejug Meeting Announcement This message is going out to all nejug members What a great meeting we had last week! Joshua Bloch did a great job presenting some of his tips and tricks from his Effective Java book, and challenging us with some of his programming puzzlers. I want to thank Joshua Bloch for taking the time to come out to speak to us, Apex Consulting Group for flying Josh out here from California and for the water, and JPMorgan for the use of their auditorium. I also want to thank all of the Apex folks and other volunteers who helped put the meeting together. The next Nejug meeting will be held at the Sun Microsystems Burlington Campus (our usual spot) on Thursday, November 14th at 6pm, where Wray Mills from CapTech Ventures in North Carolina will be speaking to us about the use of open-source solutions in large-scale J2EE application development. I attended a session at JavaOne this year where Wray spoke about this topic, and I was fascinated with both the topic and the lessons learned that Wray discussed. This is also a good opportunity to ask any questions you may have about open-source solutions in the real world. For more information about the meeting and to register, please go to http://www.nejug.org/next.htm. Please remember that you must be on the meeting registration list to attend the meeting. Directions for the meeting can be found on the web site by going to http://www.nejug.org/directions_sun.htm. Lastly, as a reminder there are two Yahoo groups that Donna put together for you. The first is a jobs posting group that is dedicated to Java-related jobs in the Boston Area. You can get to this group by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nejug-jobs. The second is a discussion group to replace the existing bulletin board that we have. You can get to this group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nejug. Hope to see you at the next meeting! Mark -- Mark Richards President, New England Java User Group Chief Architect, Internet Technology Apex Consulting Group, Inc. ------------------------------------ office: 781.944.0212 cell: 781.869.6958 email: mailto:wmrichards@att.net work: mailto:mrichards@apexcgi.com web: http://www.apexcgi.com nejug: http://www.nejug.org