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понеділок, 5 жовтня 2015 р.

Free Book: Java: The Legend



Java: The Legend
Past, Present, and Future
Publisher: O'Reilly
Released: September 2015
Description
The road from Java's first public alpha of 1.0 to today has been long—and full of technical advances, innovative solutions, and interesting complications. Along the way, Java has flourished and is now one of the world's most important and widely-used programming environments.

Benjamin Evans, the Java editor for InfoQ and author of Java in a Nutshell, 6th edition, takes us on a journey through time:

- How Java has benefitted from early design decisions, including "Write Once, Run Anywhere" and an insistence on backward compatibility- The impact of open source- The enormous success and continued importance of the Java Virtual Machine and platform- The rise of Enterprise Java- The evolution of the Java developer community and ecosystem- Java's continuing influence on new programming languages- Java's greatest triumphs and most heroic failures- The future of Java, including Java 9, Project Panama, Project Valhalla, and the Internet of Things

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пʼятницю, 2 жовтня 2015 р.

Want to design a t-shirt for JavaOne?


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Want to design a t-shirt for JavaOne? To celebrate 20 years of Java, we’re inviting you to submit t-shirt designs. The winning design will be one of the available options at the Cross Your Tees experience, taking place all week long during JavaOne 2015 at the Parc 55 San Francisco.
Attendees will have the opportunity to choose from four different designs to create their custom shirt, and one of those designs could be yours!!
Submit your design by Wednesday: October 7th at 12:00pm! 

Artwork Specifications:
Designs submitted must incorporate the evolution of Java over the last twenty years. Artwork submitted for the t-shirt design must be no longer than 12” w and 14” h and adhere to the following specifications:
• AI File Type
·          Layers Preserved
·          Fonts Outlined
·          White or Blank Artboard
·          PMS colors (if needed)
• PDF File Type
·          > 300 dpi
·          100% scale
·          Include all font types
·          White Background
·          PMS colors (if needed)
Check out the challenge details and official rules Submit today! 
Looking forward to seeing your designs.
Thanks
Oracle
Erica Morales | Event Manager Oracle Global Events
10 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood Shores, CA 94065


JUG Meetup "Silicon Valley approach to building powerful PaaS"


JUG Lviv Meetup



We are delighted to invite you to a JUG Meetup. 
This time, we are hosting a really special event, with exceptional speakers and a fabulous venue.
The meetpu is supported by SoftBistro and Chegg.
Date: 15th of October.

Topic:

Silicon Valley approach to building powerful PaaS


Presentation abstract:

Learn an innovative approach to back-end service development via an internal PaaS, which is both delightful for customers and pleasant to work with for engineers.

Geared towards Senior Java developers,  the talk has a strong emphasis on architecture. It will cover highly modular, meta-data driven development, used to address some of the most challenging problems of building distributed systems. The audience will explore ways of leveraging OSGi, Fluent Java APIs, with a model driven approach to gain developer and operational efficiency.



Speakers:

Jason Schnitzer, CTO, Chegg

Ashit Joshi, VP of Engineering, Chegg

Schedule:

Thursday, October 15th
18:45 - 19:00 Welcome coffee 
19:00 - 19:55 Silicon Valley approach to building powerful PaaS
19:55 - 20:05 - Company culture discussion
20:05 - 21:00 - Informal discussion and dinner

Venue:

The meetup will be hosted at Rius - newly built hotel, right at the city center.
Address:
Hotel RIUS
Conference room (2 поверх)
Akademika Hnatyuka St, 12А 
Lviv

Partners:

SoftBistro is a software development company delivering services for partners in the Silicon Valley. SoftBistro operates two development centers in Lviv and Khmelnytsky Ukraine. Although we love building products for the higher-ed market, we also have served a broad range of partners across many markets and industries. From start-ups in Silicon Valley, such as BigStock and Rafter to publicly traded Chegg, ShutterStock and Freelancer. For further information, please visit: www.softbistro.com.

Chegg, Inc is a student-first connected learning platform.  We are publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, California that trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG. As the leading connected learning platform, Chegg’s Student Hub makes higher education more affordable and more accessible, while improving student outcomes. Chegg puts students first and is proud to have saved students and their families more than $450 million in 2015 alone. For further information, please visit: www.chegg.com.


Registration:

The event is completely free, however, the number of attendees is strictly limited, thus, we do require registration.
Please also note, the event will be targeting experienced engineers and architects.

Registration form is here.