From:: Apr 04/28/14 12:27 AM
Subject:  NEJUG Meeting ( Thu, May 8): Several Short Talks
Sent By:  Stevel Lintz


The next general meeting of the NEJUG is coming up and you are welcome to attend. All you need do is register, show up for the meeting, relax and absorb.
Come by a bit early, and you'll have time for pizza and sodas - fully sponsored by Constant Contact (who also provide our excellent meeting facility).

Although the format will present 4 short presenttions of 30 minutes each, the regular community announcements
(e.g. workshops / seminars, direct job solicitations, etc.) will hold - as will the opportunities to network
and socialize with NEJUG friends before the meeting, during the break, and aftwards.

Register now to reserve your seat

Title: Several Short Talks
Presenter:  K.Smith, S.Fatehi, M.Acharya, M.Creighton
Location:  Constant Contact
Date: Thu, May 8
Time: Doors open at 5:00pm, pizza at 5:30pm, with the meeting starting promptly at 6:00pm

Presentation Overview:

The upcoming NEJUG meeting on May 8 will sport a collection of 30 minute talks on a range of topics, as described below.
This is a departure from our regular one Lightning Talk (about 10 minutes) plus a Main Presentation (of about 90 minutes).
The evening's schedule is set up to cover a wide range of relevant and interesting topics for our members and we expect
this format to become a regular once- or twice-a-year occurance.

The first two talks, regarding Java 8, are set up to compliment each other, first with a broad overview and then with a
focused review of the new time/date API. After the break, we will follow up on last month's CORS Lightning Talk with a more
in-depth presentation, and then finish up with an advance discussion of how the functional language mechanism of monads can be
applied to Java (including how Java significantly limits how much of the monad concept can be "imported").

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Java 8 - Six Months into the New World (by Kyle) - In March 2014, Java 8 was released to the world after more than 3 year of
 development. A number of exciting new features were added to the language and a few notable changes were made to the JVM that
every Java developer will want to be aware of. In this presentation I'll guide you through what's new and will provide brief
demonstrations of how Java 8 will enable you to write cleaner code that your colleagues and future self will appreciate.

Java 8 - The New Date and Time API (by Sualeh) - We will briefly go over what is wrong in the current Java date and time support.
Then we will clarify date and time concepts, and show how the new Java 8 Date and Time API makes working with dates and times much
better.

CORS (by Mahesh) - With  ever increasing demand for rich, distributed and dynamic content  by Web Applications, W3C concepts like
CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing)  and Web Sockets are enabling such dynamic content access/delivery possible by applications.
Right off the shelf, most application servers and API do not provide necessary HTTP Filters for enabling CORS communications.
In this session we will look at  real world applications for CORS and how to enable CORS for your Java Enterprise Servers  for allowing
business applications/data/API accessible using CORS requests by Web Browsers.

Monads in Java (by Morgan) - After explaining what monads are, this talk will explore what parts can be implemented within the Java
language and how even that limited use can simplify several types of coding problems.

About our speakers:

Kyle Smith - A software engineer at Onshape, a local venture-backed startup, where he’s helping to apply modern computing platforms to
product design. Prior to Onshape he spent time at VMware and IBM building self-service cloud and utility computing platforms.

Sualeh Fatehi - Sualeh Fatehi is Software Engineering Manager at Litle & Co., a Vantiv company. He loves to code, and manages a number
of open source projects, including SchemaCrawler.

Mahesh Acharya - Currently, a Java developer at Queues Enforth Development for over 12 years,  Prior to that work, he had developed
mission critical applications for law enforcement as well as significant architectural work in SOA and a proprietary Enterprise Development Framework.
He is also fond of hiking!

Morgan Creighton - A senior Java engineer who has made a serious investment into functional programming, b
oth on the JVM (e.g. Scala) and otherwise (e.g. Haskel).


Look forward to seeing you on Thu, May 8.


Stevel Lintz
NEJUG Advisory Team