We would like to invite you to our next session, which is planned for May 30, 2013.

Hildeberto Mendonça will speak to us about the “User Experience for Business Process Applications“.

Date: May 30 2013
Time: Open as of 18:30, conference start is 19:00. Conference end 21:30.
Place: Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Building Hermes, room

Sponsors: TRASYS Group, Megabanner.be and CTS

Session abstract:
If you were assigned to design and implement a business process based application, what would you decide about how the user interface should look like? User interface design is the most time consuming task in a software development process. It is highly subjective and under heavy criticism by end-users.

This presentation will help you better deal with this problem, exploring strategies to represent business processes in a way that end-users can easily understand what they see based on their business knowledge. We will discuss about a different approach for Business-IT traceability based on UX, an architecture and a methodology to support constant process changes, navigation approaches and the right widgets for the right actions.

Details, registration and more information

Out next event is approaching and this time we join the Brussels Google Technology User Group for a joint event on Android.

The location is the usual and the program is a mix on different Android related topics. The main talk discusses “How to make your
Android apps suck”… sounds promising, isn’t it? ;-) But there is more check out the details on the web site!

Date: April 17th, 2013

• Time: 19:00-21:30 + optional 3rd halftime
• Location: Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 1 / 1, Rue d’Assaut, Brussels
• Room: 2107

Details: Wiki and Google Event Page

Sponsored by TRASYS, Megabanner and CTS! Thank you!

The next event is already there: 06.03.2013 – Tugdual Grall – Introduction to NoSQL with Couchbase Server

Tugdual “Tug” Grall is a Technical Evangelist at Couchbase, an open source advocate and a passionate developer. He currently works with the European developer communities to ease the NoSQL adoption. Tugdual is contributing to the Java and Node/JavaScript Couchbase SDKs.

More info: http://wiki.brussels-jug.be/doku.php?id=events3:2012_06_session1

Registration: http://jugevents.org/jugevents/event/49501

Venue: the usual one – Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Building Hermes, Room 2102

Time: 19h00

Gadgets and Give-aways: a lot… :)

Sponsored by TRASYS S.A., Megabanner.be and CTS. Thank you!!

The importance of digital signatures and dematerialization of paper becomes more and more apparent in our developers life. Soon or later, everybody of us will get in touch with these technologies, which are clearly the future.

Mostly unnoticed, a lot of services in Belgium and Brussels are migrating to what is called “guichet électronique” – the electronic citizens desk. Soon, we will do our citizens administration obligations via the internet without passing hours in waiting line in the communal offices!

This said, Belgium is one of the pioneers in e-identification. Did you know? The electronic ID card has been introduced long time ago and since 2011 every Belgian citizen has an ID card of this type.

Did you ever wonder how this works and especially how to integrate with the Belgian eID card? Actually, there are Java libraries available to interface your application with the eID card and that’s exactly what we will speak about in our next session!

** 21.02.2013 – Commons eID – Get in Touch with Belgian’s eID Card **

The conference location is open as of 18:30, conference start is 19:00. The location is the usual – the nice rooms of the HU Brussels (room number to be defined). This session will be relatively short (except if you have many questions :-) and you are invited to join the crowd for a bit of networking and a drink afterwards!

More info:
http://wiki.brussels-jug.be/doku.php?id=events3:2012_02_session1
Registration: http://jugevents.org/jugevents/event/48927

Sponsors: TRASYS Group, Megabanner and CTS! Thank you! Without you, this would not be possible!

In this last session of the year we will speak about JavaFX and HTML5 … which might look like we are going to speak about apples and belgian fries in one session. And we will have a RaspberryPi and a Pandaboard to show as well… even more confusing, isn’t it?

I hope you are intrigued – then the only way to find out what this is all about is to join the session… :-p

• Price: Free like Free Beer
• Time: November 28, 2012, Start 19:00
• Place: HU Brussels, Room 2201
• Registration: http://jugevents.org/jugevents/event/47961
• Speaker: A very good presenter with a touch of English humor!
• Details: http://wiki.brussels-jug.be/doku.php?id=events3:2012_11_session1

This session is brought to you by our sponsors TRASYS, Oracle, Structure 101, CTS and Mega Banner and of course your humble Brussels JUG team!

Last tip: Don’t miss this! :-)

Our next session is planned for the 25th of October 2012. This time, we have Cagatay Civici, aka Optimus Prime, the maker of Primefaces, and Rudy De Busscher from C4J as guests. Topic: “Java EE 6 overview and what’s new in JSF 2.2″.

Details: http://wiki.brussels-jug.be/doku.php?id=events3:2012_10_session1

As usual, the event is free, but please register here: http://jugevents.org/jugevents/event/47009

Important modification: as of this event, we start the sessions at 19:00 (instead of 18:30). Location as usual HU Brussels. End time 21:30. 3rd halftime in a nice bar after the event.

Many thanks go to our sponsors: TRASYS Group, Oracle, Megabanner, Structure 101 and CTS.

A special thank you goes to Contribute4J, which proposed to make a session for you during the time Cagatay stays in Belgium for PrimeFaces and JSF trainings. Speaking of this, if you are interested in catching one of these trainings, have a look here: http://www.c4j.be/web/guest/primefaces-training

We hope to see many of you! Don’t miss this chance to meet great people, learn fancy stuff and just have a nice time.

HU Brussels, ROOM 3107

It’s time to awake from our hibernation and restart freshly into a new JUG season. Our first session is announced for the 19th of September.

Stephane Epardaud, currently on EU JUG tour, joins us in Brussels to speak about Ceylon. Stéphane works for Red Hat on the Ceylon project and is eager to share exiting news about this new JVM programming language with us.

In some words, Ceylon’s design goals include:

• easy to learn and understand for Java and C# developers,
• eliminate some of Java’s verbosity, but keep its readability,
• improve upon Java’s typesafety,
• provide a declarative syntax for expressing hierarchical information (user interface, external data, system configuration)
• support and encourage a more functional style of programming with immutable objects and higher-order functions,
• great support for meta-programming,
• built-in modularity.

Let’s meet for another cool session to discover new universes :)

The location is not yet fixed but will probably at the HU Brussels in the center of our city, as usual. We keep you informed.

More info on our wiki:
http://wiki.brussels-jug.be/doku.php?id=events3:2012_09_session1

And the registration is open here:
http://jugevents.org/jugevents/event/46821

We would like to invite you to our next session on Friday 29.06.2012. Uberto Barbini will speak about how to boost your Object-Orientated-Programming with Functional Programming.

The session will be held at the stylish HUB co-working space, 37 Rue du Prince Royal, 1050 Ixelles, Metro: Porte Namur + 5 min walk.

Registration and more infos via our wiki: http://wiki.brussels-jug.be/

The room capacity is limited to 30 seats, so please reserve only if you are sure to be there and please send us a mail in case of cancelling.

Give-aways: Licenses for Structure 101 and Re-Structure 101

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

Have a great week!

(SOLD OUT)

You all know our cool Brussels JUG stand-up banner that is present at all our sessions and that has been sponsored last year by Megabanner. This year, they come back with a new fine goodie for us: a MEGA BruJUG banner :)

(Note: The Big Foot is not printed on the panel :)

Megabanner.be will be present at the Sign2COM fair, the 9-11 september 2012 at Kortrijk Expo. Have a look at their freshly polished web site for more info and all the cool products the company offers!

Don’t forget, everybody needs mega-banners once in a while :-)

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!

Some of you asked about the “Adopt A JSR” program that Martijn mentioned at the end of the session. Please have a look at the link below. Please know that we fancy to build and support an “Adopt A JSR” working group with you, providing that enough interested people show up.

http://java.net/projects/jugs/pages/AdoptAJSR

Moreover, we uploaded the session as video. It’s release under the “Creative Common NonCommercial ShareAlike NoDerivates” licence and you can download the HD videos for offline watching, if you like.

We would like to invite you to our next event on Thu, February 2nd 2012, 18:30 to 21:30 in Brussels, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Building Hermes, 4th floor, Room 4219. As usual, the session is in English and the entry is free (limited seats, please register). Give-aways: 2 Structure-Licenses.

This time, we have two very famous speakers with us, coming from the UK, right for you (and the FOSDEM ;):  Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg

All details about the session, speakers and the topic: http://wiki.brussels-jug.be/doku.php?id=events2:2012_02_session1

All this is possible due to our official JUG sponsors: CTS, Oracle, TRASYS Group, Megabanner.be and Structure 101.

We are proud to announce that new sponsor decided to support the BruJUG project: Mega Banner

Megabanner is a company specialised in outdoor advertising of all kind, digital printing in over-sizes, printed screens and light walls. Perfect if you want to be REALLY visible at a exhibition or on the street!