Date:     Dec 12/13/12 10:54 AM
Subject:  NEJUG Meeting: Getting started developing with a PaaS - Thu, Jan 10
From:     Mark Johnson

The physical location of development really has not changed much over the years,
nor has the pain associated from setting up development environments for a new project.
With the introduction of PaaS environments such as CloudBees, Cloud Foundry,
Amazon EC2, etc our familar development paridigms are about to change.
Come join us for the start of 2013 to learn techniques required to adapt
to this new world.

Date: Thu, Jan 10
Topic: Getting started developing with a PaaS
Presenter: Mark Prichard
Location: Constant Contact

Register now to reserve your seat

As always the doors will open at 5pm for networking, pizza provided by
Constant Contact will arrive around 5:30pm, and the presentation will
take place at 6pm. Come early meet someone new and ensure you get a good seat.

Presentation Overview:

A fast paced overview of the “*-as-a-Service” space, including infrastructure,
platform, and software as services followed by a focused discussion of advanced
topics in that space with an extended Q&A after the break.  The planned sub-topics
include: standards (or their lack), portability vs. proprietary,
how to choose between “*aaS” providers, tool support, business level considerations,
impact on project management, and more!

This two-hour presentation can serve both as an introduction to the “*-as-a-Service”
space and as continuation of the NEJUG/GBC-ACM workshop of Sept 22, 2012
(also lead by Mark Prichard).

Members are encouraged to visit http://www.cloudbees.com/signup and test
drive their PaaS product for free.  Follow Mark’s excellent tutorials at
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2012/07/getting-started-with-cloudbees-and.html
and then come to the meeting with questions – it’s what he’s waiting for!

About the presenter:

PaaS Evangelist and Senior Director of Product Management

Mark Prichard is our Java PaaS evangelist and senior director of product
management at CloudBees. He came to CloudBees after 13 years at BEA Systems
and Oracle, where he was product manager for WebLogic and built a reputation
for deep expertise in Java and middleware. Before that, Mark spent 10 years
working for leading systems integrators in the UK, such as Logica CMG,
SHL Systemhouse and CSC Computer Sciences. Mark is a graduate of St John's College,
Cambridge and the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory; he holds MA, BA,
BSc and DipCompSci degrees. Mark now lives in California and is based at the
CloudBees office in Los Altos.





As always, I want to take a moment to thank our sponsors:

    Special thanks to Constant Contact for pizza, water, and our wonderful meeting location
    Contegix for hosting our website
    O'Reilly for e-book certificates
    JetBrains for the monthly IntelliJ license
    Hello2morrow for their raffle contribution of a Sonargraph-Architect personal license
    VMware for VMware Workstation and Fusion licenses for raffle

Mark Johnson

President, NEJUG
email:markfjohnson@gmail.com