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Meetup Reviews

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Boost Hibernate Performance 10x via the new Ehcache and Hibernate Cache provider on Wednesday Jun 16, 2010

Meetup Rating
4.5010

Attendees
35
What a fantastic presentation. It's was 100% apparent that Ari new his stuff, and was not holding back in sharing any details. I learned a lot.
— Brian Leathem
Great presentation overall. Slides could use some work.
— Teg Bains
Ari gave a great overview of ehcache and terracotta, answering every question thrown at him with great precision. He made a compelling argument for the value of the marriage of these two technologies.
— Sam Cirka
Very nice and insightful talk. Great speaker too.
— Danil Glinenko
It was great, Ari Zilka is very knowledgeable and always interesting to listen to.
— Igor Stelmashenko
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JavaEE 6 new and noteworthy on Tuesday Jan 26, 2010

Meetup Rating
4.505

Attendees
23
Great presentation Arun!!!
— Alexandre Faria
I like the fact that JavaEE is getting simpler. Impressed by the GlassFish demonstration.
— Gerald Reinhart
Thank you Brian for arranging Arun Gupta's presentation about the new features of JavaEE 6. It was complete and covered plenty of interesting topics and details about in the new version. I hope there will be another meeting soon.
— Nicolas
It sounds like Sun and the JCP finally get that developers don't want to write or deal with config files. The EJB 3.1 and JSF 2.0 improvements alone are worth the upgrade.
— Teg Bains
Arun covered a lot of material - he did a fantastic job covering the key points.
— Brian Leathem
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An intro to Google Web Toolkit on Thursday Nov 26, 2009

Meetup Rating
3.505

Attendees
36
Too elementary - missed quite a few details of how things worked
— David Phillips
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A workhorse named Mule. by David Dossot on Thursday May 14, 2009

Meetup Rating
4.003

Attendees
38
Interesting talk on a topic about which I knew nothing beforehand. I'm keen to know more now - and I won one of the door prize books so I'm all set! Many thanks to David and the organizers.
— Jon Jennings
It was good, useful, but a little bit slow.
— AntonS
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The Squirrel GUI: design and implementation on Thursday Nov 13, 2008

Meetup Rating
4.502

Attendees
13
Everyone should design and build a ui framework once. This talk was a great overview of the Squirrel UI - a custom ui framework written using Java 1.1 on linux using raw AWT. It covered the basics of separating your UI from your business logic (MVC) and simple event handling and construction of basic UI components and layout management. It provided a good insight into the decision making process for a lightweight UI.
— Sam Cirka
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Hands on web application development with Wicket on Thursday Oct 9, 2008

Meetup Rating
4.007

Attendees
19
Good introduction for those evaluating wicket.
— Chris Ng
Wicket is really good at UI design.
— Jiwen Wei
It was very interesting and informative meeting
— AntonS
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Domain-Driven Design on Thursday Sep 11, 2008

Meetup Rating
4.505

Attendees
12
It seems we keep struggling with the same problems over and over again. DDD won't solve them any better than other attempts. Thinking about our domain is a good thing, but trying to solve problems from a purist standpoint won't. Relational databases are here to stay, let's work on eliminating the OR impedance mismatch with existing technologies.
— Sam Cirka