Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:11:12 -0500 (EST) From: Nejug President Subject: NEJUG March 18 Meeting Announcement/Reminder This message is going out to all New England Java Users Group (NEJUG) members... The next NEJUG meeting will be held on Thursday March 18th at 6:00pm at the Sun Campus in Burlington (our usual spot), where David Thomas will be speaking to us on the topic "Decoupling Patterns - Untangling that Knot of Code". About the speaker: Dave Thomas is recognized internationally as an expert who develops high-quality software--accurate and highly flexible systems. He helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly speaks on new ways of producing software. He is the author of two books, including the best selling The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Addison-Wesley) and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide (Addison-Wesley). For more information about the meeting and to register, please go to http://www.nejug.org/next.jsp As usual, the pizza and water are free, as is the meeting. Information for the April and May meetings has been posted on the NEJUG site - see http://www.nejug.org/calendar.jsp David Geary will be speaking on Java Server Faces (JSF) in April, and Howard Lewis Ship will be speaking on Tapestry in May (moved from April). Finally, the New England Software Symposium is coming to Boston on April 23-25th. If you are all about quality, relevant technical content and excellent speakers such as Dave Thomas, Richard Monson-Haefel, Erik Hatcher, etc... then this is the symposium for you. NESS 2004 is limited to 250 attendees to insure maximum interaction between attendees and speakers. Check out NESS 2004 at www.nofluffjuststuff.com/2004-04-boston/index.jsp for more details and registration information. A special discount of $50 is available to all NEJUG members thru 03/26/04. Please use the discount code, "nessjug575" when registering. There are great team-based discounts as well. We will be giving away a FREE ALL ACCESS PASS to NESS 2004 at the March NEJUG meeting on March 18th. Make sure and attend for your chance to win! We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! Steve Steve Maienza Officer, New England Java Users Group CGI ------------------------------------ office: 978.946-3372 email: steven.maienza@cgi.com web: http://www.cgi.com nejug: http://www.nejug.org