[ajug-announce] DevNexus 2012 - March 21-22 - Schedule Published

[Gunnar Hillert]

Dear fellow developers,

*DevNexus 2012* is only 5 weeks away and will take place *March 21-22*. As
of late, we have been super-busy organizing and confirming the best minds
of our industry. We are happy to announce the preliminary schedule at:

*http://devnexus.com/s/schedule* <http://devnexus.com/s/schedule>

This year will mark our biggest DevNexus conference event, yet! Compared to
last year, we added *2 more tracks* to the conference, bringing the total
to *6 tracks*. *30+ speakers* will deliver *48 sessions* equipping you with
the critical knowledge to take your career to the next level. And if this
is not enough, we have *3 wonderful keynote* speakers as well:

   - Patrick Curran, Chair of the Java Community Process organization will
   present "Java User Groups and the Java Community Process: a winning
   combination"
   - Barry Hawkins, a veteran in our industry will present "How We Got
   Here, And What To Do About It", and we also are delighted to have
   - Ben Galbraith, founder of Ajaxian.com and now running mobile
   architecture and engineering at Walmart.com.

This year we will have an incredible breadth of topics. Besides covering *core
Java* topics (e.g. Java 7+8, Joda Time, Guava) as well as *JVM
Languages*(Groovy and Scala), we will also extensively cover
*Mobile* topics (including *HTML5*). Furthermore, we will dive into
*Cloud*related topics, covering Platform as a service (PaaS) providers
such as
Cloud Foundry, Google App Engine and Heroku. Here is a more comprehensive
list of covered topics:

   - Core Java (Java 7+8, Joda-Time, Guava)
   - Spring (Spring 3.1, Spring MVC 3.1, Spring Integration)
   - JBoss (DeltaSpike)
   - Mobile (jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, Android, Appcelerator Titanium)
   - HTML5
   - JavaScript (Node.js, jQuery),
   - Cloud (Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Google App Engine)
   - Gradle
   - Groovy
   - Git
   - Scala
   - NoSQL (Neo4J, Cassandra)
   - Play Framework
   - Caching (EhCache  and JSR107)
   - REST
   - Continuous deployment
   - Talks on Agile Methodologies and Architecture

With this session line-up on the horizon, attending DevNexus should be a
priority - This is also the South-East’s best, yet affordable, developer's
conference!

We, the volunteers from the Atlanta Java Users Group would be delighted to
see you all at DevNexus! Learn, network and have fun -

Please register today at: http://www.devnexus.com

We would like to *thank our Sponsors* that help us greatly to keep DevNexus
super-affordable (*$185 group-ticket / $200 regular ticket*). We also
welcome two new DevNexus Gold Sponsors:

* SpringSource, a division of VMware
* GCA Technology Services and Oracle University

GCA Technology Services and Oracle University are thrilled to be sponsors
of AJUG again this year. GCA specializes in Identity and Access Management
(IAM) consulting and education. We partner with Oracle to provide industry
leading solutions for user provisioning, role management, rights
management, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, governance and
compliance. We deliver training for Oracle Solaris, Java, Oracle Identity
and Access Management as well as other Oracle Applications and
technologies. We believe that the blended approach by providing expert
consultants who also educate our customers in the products we implement,
allows us to achieve consistently positive results. Oracle's Java based IAM
solutions lead the industry. Let us work with your team to create a
training and IAM consulting solution that gets the results you want.
Contact us at http://www.gca.net/oracle or 770-643-0443. We look forward to
seeing everyone at Devnexus!

The DevNexus *Gold Sponsors*:

   - Terracotta
   - IntercontinentalExchange (ICE)
   - JBoss
   - The Intersect Group
   - GCA Technology Services and Oracle University
   - SpringSource, a division of VMware

*Silver Sponsors*:

   - Apex Systems
   - Anteo Group
   - 4t Networks

*Cocktail Hour Sponsor*:

   - MATRIX Resources

We are looking forward seeing you all in March!!!

Cheers,

Gunnar Hillert
President, Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG)
678-908-9067

PS:

If you have any question let us know at info at ajug.org and please follows
us
on Twitter at http://twitter.com/devnexus for news and updates.
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