JBoss User Group Belgium – Upcoming event on 10th November

Dear JBoss enthusiasts,

The event is scheduled for the 10th of November and … Pete Muir is presenting!

For those who don’t know Pete, this is his bio:
“I lead the Seam, Weld and CDI TCK projects, am an adviser to the RichFaces project, and a founder of the Arquillian project. I’ve worked on a number of specifications including JSF 2.0, AtInject and CDI. I am a regular speaker at JUGs and conferences such as Devoxx (Javapolis), JAX, JavaBlend, JSFDays and JBoss World. I am currently employed by Red Hat Inc. working on JBoss open source projects. Before working for Red Hat, I used and contributed to Seam whilst working at a UK based staffing agency as IT Development Manager.”

Schedule for the event is:
18:00 – 19:00: Seam 3
19:00 – 20:00: Arquillian

RealDolmen will be our host and they’ll provide food and beverages at the office in Kontich. Dot not forget to register as seats are limited.

More info: http://jbug.be/

Guillaume Bort – Play! Framework

Date: Thursday, October 14^th 2010.

Time: Open as of 18:30, conference start is 19:00. Conference end 22:00.

Place: ULB, Plaine, Forum F, See wiki

Registration: Required, via JUGEvents

Admission price: None, Free Entry

Seats: 50

Language: English

After the event, we will certainly find a nice bar near the ULB to have a drink. So please don’t be shy and join the group after the session for a chat.

Speaker, Talk & Lab:

Guillaume is cofounder and CTO of Zenexity, a french ‘web oriented architecture’ company. He is the creator and lead developer of the Play! framework, which makes it easier to build Web applications in Java. Made by Web developers, Play! focuses on developer productivity and targets RESTful architectures.

More information about the event, the talks and the speakers are available in our Wiki Space.

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Anton Epple, NetBeans Rich-Client Platform Development Bootcamp

Date: Thursday, October 28^th 2010.

Time: Open as of 18:30, conference start is 19:00. Conference end 22:00.

Place: ULB, Plaine, Forum F, See wiki

Registration: Required, via JUGEvents

Admission price: None, Free Entry

Seats: 50

Language: English

After the event, we will certainly find a nice bar near the ULB to have a drink. So please don’t be shy and join the group after the session for a chat.

More information about the event, the talks and the speakers are available in our Wiki Space.

Speaker, Talk & Lab:

Anton works as a Java consultant and trainer at Eppleton in Munich, Germany. In the last years Anton has specialized in NetBeans Platform development and consulting, and since 2008 he’s a member of the NetBeans Dream Team. As an active member of the Open Source Community he’s one of the leaders of the JavaTools Community at java.net where many NetBeans related projects are hosted. Being also an author and blogger, he recently published a book about professional Java development using NetBeans. Since 2009 Anton is also NetBeans Governance Board Member.

NetBeans Rich-Client Platform Development Bootcamp

The NetBeans Platform (RCP) is a generic framework for Swing applications. It provides the “plumbing” that, usually, every developer has to write themselves—saving state, connecting actions to menu items, toolbar items and keyboard shortcuts; window management, and so on.

The NetBeans RCP provides all of these out of the box. You don’t need to manually code these or other basic features, yourself, anymore. The platform does not add a lot of overhead to your application — but it can save a huge amount of time and work. The NetBeans RCP provides a reliable and flexible application architecture. Your application does not have to look anything like an IDE.

During this Bootcamp, Anton introduces us into NetBeans Rich-Client Platform Development by a practical and interactive step-by-step development of a Rich Client Swing application.

Sponsor:

Java Knights Belgium is a mailing list for Belgian Java Freelancers. It represents a central place to keep in touch, exchange experiences and opportunities.

Why Java Knights? Well, in the middle ages, a freelancer used to be a knight hired by kings. If you are a freelancer dedicated to Java in Belgium, you should definitely join us. We are a mix of seniors and starters.

History

The Java Knights fellowship started with Just van den Broecke opening the Dutch Java Knights mailing list in 2001. It turned into a real live club when Gerald de Jong of Beautiful Code BV sponsored a mini-conference in Ameland . It was called “Amelot” and everyone there was knighted and given a name with “a lot” on the end (Ger-alot, Just-alot, Sam-alot…).

The Dutch J-Knights are now a thriving community of Java freelancers bringing together some of the greatest Java minds in the Netherlands. They have regular gatherings where they network, eat, drink, program, and discuss tech-stuff. They also share potential contract opportunities and help each other with freelance-related issues.

The elder Dutch Round Table can be joined here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JavaKnights.

In 2010, some of the Belgian guest members decided to start a local chapter. This is when the Belgian Round Table was born.

Subjects and Topics

• Freelancing. All kind of practical things from doing taxes to all other kind of knowledge and experiences.
• Passing around contract offerings. Please note that we don’t accept HR people just looking for profiles.
• Tech-stuff. Many of us are on our own when it comes to the choice of architectures/technology. So we are always on the lookout and exploring “new stuff”, not necessarily Java.
• Home Projects. In many of us develop actual fun/exciting/useful products.
• Gatherings. Different kind of meetings – from having a drink together to joining a JUG session. And yes, free beer for our elder Dutch Round Table Java Knights.
• Q & A. Whether you’re stuck in some programming problem or need opinions on a technology, ask the Knights.
• Having Fun :)

Language

In Belgium we have 3 national languages, 4 regions and a lot of international Freelancers working, so the mailing list language is English.

How To Join the Belgian Chapter?

In order to join us, meet our Round Table at: http://java-knights.be

The Brussels Google Technology User Group organizes a group trip to the DroidCon in London, the 28-29th October 2010. If you are interested to join the fellowship of Android developers, you can find them on their Google group. Tickets have to be reserved in advance, so please don’t wait too long.

http://groups.google.com/group/bru-gtug

http://www.droidcon.co.uk/

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. Their mission is to make application security visible, so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about true application security risks. Everyone is free to participate in OWASP and all of our materials are available under a free and open software license.

The local Belgium chapter is lead by Sebastien Deleersnyder and their next chapter meeting is on September 21st in Leuven. Participation in OWASP is free and open to all, as are all the materials they produce.

September 21st 2010 18h-20h
Distrinet Research Group (K.U.Leuven).
Department of Computer Science (auditorium 00.225)
Celestijnenlaan 200 A
3001 Heverlee

The agenda:

• 18h00 – 18h30: Welcome & Refreshments
• 18h30 – 18h45: OWASP Update (by Sebastien Deleersnyder, SAIT Zenitel, OWASP Board)
• 18h45 – 19h45: Attacking and Defending the Grid (by Justin Searle)

The Smart Grid brings greater benefits for utilities and customer alike, however these benefits come at a cost from a security perspective. This presentation will explore how the increased functionality and complexity also increases the Smart Grid’s attack surface, or in other words, increases the ways attackers can compromise the Smart Grid’s new infrastructures, systems, and business models. We’ll discuss several specific attack avenues against the Smart Grid and recommendations for mitigating or blocking these attacks.

• 19h45 – 20h00: Break
• 20h00 – 21h00: How I Met Your Girlfriend (by Samy Kampkar)

The discovery and execution of entirely new classes of attacks executed from the Web in order to meet your girlfriend. This includes newly discovered attacks including HTML5 client-side XSS (without XSS hitting the server!), PHP session hijacking and weak random numbers (accurately guessing PHP session cookies), browser protocol confusion (turning a browser into an SMTP server), firewall and NAT penetration via Javascript (turning your router against you), remote iPhone Google Maps hijacking (iPhone penetration combined with HTTP man-in-the-middle), extracting extremely accurate geolocation information from a Web browser (not using IP geolocation), and more.

More info: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Belgium#tab=Chapter_Meetings