The user group for Play! framework enthusiasts living and working in Belgium has its first meeting the 6th of June 2012 in Brussels.

Tag line: “We don’t focus on Scala or Java, Play 1.x or 2.x, the key is Play, and not a subset of it. Come and have a talk over a good pint of Belgian beer!”

Want to know more? Click this: http://www.meetup.com/play-be/

Update: Video of the session is online: https://vimeo.com/41214504
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After a longer pause, we are back with a very cool session:  “Restructuring: Improving the modularity of an existing code-base”.

Chris Chedgey, founder of Structure101 and based in England, flights over to test the hospitality of Belgian Juggies. He is welcome!

Here’s the pitch:

“When a code-base reaches a certain age, it starts to creak, grind, rot. It seems like everything uses everything. Developers do not understand the big picture and start duplicating or creating parallel worlds of design, making things even worse. Architects are uneasy and sleep badly. Managers notice how long it takes to get new features into the product, and to get the bugs out of incremental releases, and they make sure nobody sleeps well. Now is the time for the code-base to be restructured, or die a painful death.

This talk covers the most common structural problems, gives strategies for fixing them with minimal impact to the logical design, and shows how this reduces coupling and complexity, improves modularity, and can be used to establish an architecture that the whole team understands and that helps the developers as they edit the code. In other words, how to stop the rot, and keep it stopped.

The principles and strategies will be illustrated by examples.”

When: Thu, April 26 2012, starting 18:30.
Where: Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 2 / 2, Rue d’Assaut, ROOM 4118
Entry fee: free session.

Why: because it’s interesting, cool and you will meet a lot of other cool Java people.

Give-aways: Licenses for Structure 101 and Re-Structure 101, maybe more? :)

Aftermath: No English gentleman comes to Belgium without tasting our beer collection. Questions? :-)

More info and registration: http://wiki.brussels-jug.be/doku.php?id=events2:2012_01_session1

As usual, free hugs go to our sponsors that make this fun possible: TRASYS Group, Oracle, Structure 101, CTS and Mega Banner.

Hope to see many of you!

The theme for the 2012 Java Specialists Symposium is: Iced Tea in Crete – How libre software makes Java successful.

The conference starts on the 10th and ends on the 13th of September 2012, with an optional day on the 14th for those who would like to get together even more informally and code.

Sessions will run from 8:30 until 12:30 every morning. After that the attendees will be free to go on interesting excursions or carry on chatting to fellow Java programmers.

This conference is free. Of course you need to pay your own travel costs.

More information:

http://www.javaspecialists.eu/wiki/index.php/JavaSpecialistsSymposium2012

http://jnkjava.blogspot.com/2011/09/java-open-spaces-conference-2011-in.html

WHEN

25th of January 2012 18h-21h00

WHERE

Location is sponsored by Cisco Belgium.

Location: Cisco, Pegasus Park, De Kleetlaan, 6A, B-1831 Diegem. See directions.

PROGRAM

The agenda:

• 18h00 – 18h30: Welcome & Sandwiches
• 18h30 – 18h45: OWASP Update (by Sebastien Deleersnyder, SAIT Zenitel, OWASP Board)
• 18h45 – 19h45: devops, secops, devsec or *ops ? A gentle introduction to Devops (by Kris Buytaert, Inuits)

This talk will summarize the different ideas behind devops, and will show that this goes beyond tooling and becomes a way of thinking, where ultimately everybody will stand together to support the business.

Some call this phenomenon devops, others hate the word and want to call it *ops or ops* , truth is that agile techniques used in development have an impact on the way operations organizes it work. Similar, operations and sysadmins are becoming programmers because of the virtualization and automation trend where everything is managed through an API. And security is imvolved everywhere.

Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant. He’s one of instigators of the devops

movement, currently working for Inuits. Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen, used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is frequently speaking at, or organizing different international conferences. He spends most of his time working on Linux Clustering (both High Availability, Scalability and HPC), Virtualisation and Large Infrastructure Management projects hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud while actively promoting the devops idea ! His blog titled “Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem” can be found at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/

• 19h45 – 20h00: Break
• 20h00 – 21h00: Hardening web applications against malware attacks (by Erwin Geirnaert, Zion Security)

During this presentation we give an overview of how we can harden web applications against different types of attacks used by malware to bypass the existing security controls in the web application. We discuss the OWASP Top 10 and how malware can abuse these attacks and how the developer must implement a different strategy. We explain why (mobile) browser security is an important aspect of web application hardening and most importantly that the battle against malware is an ongoing battle. For every countermeasure the security industry develops to protect web applications and is used by a lot of companies today we will show how malware is being developed to bypass these solutions. To finalize we give some advice on how to protect against these malware attacks, using pro-active and detective controls.

Erwin Geirnaert founded ZION SECURITY in 2005 to help companies to protect against the latest threats, attacks against web applications. ZION SECURITY is nowadays a Belgian market leader in the field of security testing, vulnerability management, penetration testing and banking security. Erwin has more than 10 years of experience in web security, graduating with a Master of Science in Software Development from the University of Ghent. Erwin executes different types of projects for a lot of international software companies, financial institutions, telecom and web agencies. Specialist in executing code reviews in different development languages for critical applications, executing continuous penetration tests of their infrastructure and Internet applications. A specialist in J2EE security, .NET security and web services security. Erwin architects secure e-business projects for web agencies and software companies. He is a recognized application security expert and speaker at international events like Javapolis, OWASP, Eurostar,

REGISTRATION

Please register via https://www.regonline.com/owasp-belgium-2012-01-25

**After Event Update**

http://blog.rootshell.be/2012/01/25/first-2012-owasp-belgium-chapter-meeting-wrap-up/

We would like to thank you for all the positive feedback that we got during the last weeks. This motivates us a lot! Please keep it coming and send us your ideas and suggestions!

It is now about time to present you the results of our efforts and to ask you for your input about the future direction of the JUG project.  Hence, we would like to invite you to our first official JUG meeting.

The gathering is open for all those who are interested to take part in the development of the user group. Moreover it’s a nice opportunity to get acquainted and to do some chatting and networking.

Date:
Thursday, April 29th 2010.

Time:
We will be there as of 18:00 (mini lunch, feel free to join), official meeting start is 19:00.

Place:
Brasserie 1898, Avenue d’Auderghem 4, Brussels. Close to the RP/metro Schuman, Parking around is easy. We booked a corner for around 15 people. They serves belgian beer and food. Web – Map.

Registration:
Not required, but desired in order to avoid a (surely positive) surprise :). Registered people will get papers. Please send us a mail via the registration page accessible in the side bar, or comment this post.

Agenda (19:00-21:30/22:00):

1. Hello World
2. Networking – Presentation of speakers who agreed to speak for us (see this page), current contacts and funny stories, discussion and exchange of ideas.
3. Activities and Pricing – Presentation of planned types of activities (see here and here) and pricing concepts (see Q&A), input and exchange of ideas.
4. Sponsoring – Presentation of concepts, input and discussion.
5. Conference Sites – Do you know nice places?
6. Conference Time – What’s the best day (evening, weekend)?
7. JUG Advertisement – Presentation of what we have done so far and discussion about how we can reach the Brussels’ Java population.
8. Optional and free registration as member of the BruJUG ASBL/VZW.
9. Any other JUG business.
10. Cheeese! – Group Photo  (Kidding!)
11. System.exit(0);

Please note that this agenda is preliminary and will be updated during the next days. Feel free to propose additional topics (by mail or on the mailing list).

More info: BruJUG Wiki Space

Last update:  21.04

Registrations: 16

We will be having a fierce discussion over HTML5 vs. Flash and we will be meeting interesting people willing to help us in organization and possibly also in speaking at our JUG meetings.

Sounds exciting?

Mind you, it’s Café Numérique – a place worth a visit on its own!

Drop by the 7 april at Mirano at 19 o’clock !

PS. This is an unofficial meeting, just to enjoy the CN and to have a chat about the JUG. It is NOT a “real” BruJUG session.