Vancouver Island Java User Group VIJUG

September 2010 VIJUG Meeting - Java Audio Processing

If there is one thing Java is definitely not know for it is the multimedia related capabilities in its API. This month we will get a tour through the audio related API in Java and see how they can be use to create a mod player. And yes.. if you don’t know what that is you will find out about that too.

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August 2010 VIJUG Meeting - Sonar

Last months meeting about distributed version control systems including demos as well as the great progress update to the launch of alphasimple was a great success. The discussion and questions kept coming so that we decided to skip the Sonar demo and move it to this month… Continue reading August 2010 VIJUG Meeting – Sonar

July 2010 VIJUG Meeting - Demos and Discussions

After a vibrant discussion about version control systems in the last meeting we are taking that to the next level and will demo usage of Mercurial and Git and discuss more about it all. And if anyone has any further demos and discussion topics we are ready to roll.
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June 2010 Meeting – Purely Social

This month with the summer finally around we are going to have a purely social get together to see what teases everybody’s interest at this stage. With Google IO and WWDC over and plans for JavaOne in the making there should be plenty to talk about. We will run this meeting together with the Victoria Cocoaheads so there will be lots of Apple stuff being talked about. If that is not your cup of coffee I am sure there are lots of other things to talk about too Continue reading June 2010 Meeting – Purely Social

April 2010 VIJUG Meeting - Android

Fourth month of the year, fourth meeting. Seems like we are going well so far with meetings. This time it is time again for Manfred Moser to present. He will be giving an overview of the mobile phone and device operating system Android from the Open Handset Alliance.

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March 2010 VIJUG Meeting - High Performance Java

In our third meeting of the year we are going to rev it up and see how the local company AERS is using Spring and Java threading to achieve the necessary performance to work with some really large data set.

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February 2010 VIJUG Meeting - Lucene and Solr

After a bit of a timing mismatch with Djun last time in November 2008 we are back to hear more about Apache Solr and learn lots about enabling search for your application. Specifically about using the web application Solr and how it can be facilitated in any application you are building.

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January 2010 VIJUG meeting - Cocoaheads?!

We are starting off the new year by stepping a bit outside of our environment and will learn about iPhone development with Objective C in corporation with the Cocoahead Victoria
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