Gateway JUG

June 2012 Announcements

• Our next meeting will be June 5th at 6:00pm. Topic: Introduction to NoSQL
• July 3rd Meeting: Meeting is canceled. Gone fishing (and planning)
• August 7th Meeting Topic: "The JavaScript Every Java Developer Needs to Know"
• We have partnered with the Gateway Groovy Users group to meet on our same night. The Gateway JUG meets from 6:00pm - 7:15pm. The Gateway Groovy User Group meeting will then follow from 7:30pm - 8:30pm. So come out for a healthy dose of Java, Groovy, and Grails starting at 6:00pm.
  
  • To RSVP for the Gateway JUG, please visit http://www.meetup.com/GatewayJUG/
  • To RSVP for the Gateway Groovy Users group, please visit http://www.meetup.com/GatewayGroovyUsers/

Wanted! Java Speakers ... We always need speakers! If you have a favorite API, just learned a new tool or technique, or just want to share a design or development experience that will be informative and useful to other members, please send an e-mail to president{at}gatewayjug{dot}org to get on our presentation schedule.

Special Promotion

If we have 45 or more attendees, and at least 80% of the attendees sent an RSVP, we will hold a 2nd grand prize drawing for a new Amazon Kindle Fire eBook reader!

Only those who RSVP'ed will be eligible for this drawing. You're eligible even if you win another prize tomorrow night!  (Sponsors and Gateway JUG staff are not to be included in the attendance tally and are not eligible for the Kindle Fire door prize drawing.)

(Factoid: The Kindle Fire is based on Google Android which uses Java as its programing language.)

June 5th Meeting - Introduction to NoSQL

NoSQL. NoSQL. NoSQL.

Oh, when will you stop tormenting me NoSQL? So long ago I wed myself to SQL and happily enslaved myself to her. And yet, here you come, from out of nowhere, to beguile and seduce me, tormenting my contented soul, making me question commitments made so long ago.

NoSQL. NoSQL. NoSQL.

Get out of my head NoSQL! Wherever I look, I see you. But what are you anyway, you wicked temptress?

Why do you exist? Should I embrace you or push you away and fight you to my dying breath? If I join with you, can I trust you will not turn on me in my darkest hour? Do you intend to replace my trusted SQL or merely be a casual mistress? If I permit myself to gaze into your eyes, will I see anything like my dear SQL? Or will I see something hideous and altogether different?

NoSQL. NoSQL. NoSQL.

Are you real or just a popular mirage?

NoSQL, I can resist you no longer.

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If you'd like to learn a bit about NoSQL, I invite you to attend our June 5th Gateway JUG meeting. Together we'll explore these questions:

• What is NoSQL?
• It complimentary or a replacement to SQL?
• When and how would we use it?
• What are some flavors of NoSQL databases and when would we use one over the other?
• How does NoSQL fit into our enterprise eco-system?
• What does developing with NoSQL look like?

Be sure to RSVP so we can have plenty of food and drink on hand.

Speaker: Jack Frosch

Sponsor: ISSG, Inc.

Meeting Slides: (to be posted after the mtg)