GTUG, and Fidelity CAT have a really cool topic for our May 14th event that every mobile developer needs to know. Chris Wysopal CTO of Veracode will speak on mobile app security. In addition to Chris's talk, we will also have a couple of live exploits performed on mobile devices to demonstrate examples of attack vectors and exploits. To learn more about the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) please visit:http://FCAT.Fidelity.com

Based on a very successful recent event (Meet For Speed) held at Google's main campus, this meeting will discuss website optimization, and we'll be prepared to do some hands-on work optimizing web sites.

J Singh talks about App Engine and Big Data

BostonGTUG is hosting a Boston-area Hackathon in concert with Global Android Dev Camp.  Thanks to local Google office for space, and sponsors Black Duck Software and General Catalyst Partners.   More details and link to Eventbrite registration at http://boston.gtugs.org/

Lightning Talks and discussion of upcoming Global Android Dev Camp

Join the GTUG at Google's office in Kendall Sq Cambridge Massachusetts for an open Lab and Q&A session about developing Android apps on tablets.  We'll cover topics like testing your app on a Tablet and improving the user experience.   And lightning talks.

 

Mark Renouf, Googler via the ITA acquisition, will speak to us about Ice Cream Sandwich, which he has been running internally now for several months.

At this meeting, we are interested in having members of the GTUG present a lightning talk for 5-10 minutes on any projects they are working on or are passionate about that use or could use Google technologies. 

 

First meeting of the Boston GTUG for Fall 2011.  Stay tuned for agenda details.  Now with Lightning Talks.

On Wednesday May 18th at 6:30PM Google Developer advocate Arne Roomann-Kurrik will speak about Google Chrome and HTML5. The meeting will be held in Google's Cambridge office located at 5 Cambridge Center in Kendall Square. This meeting comes just after Google IO, so if you attended Google IO, or IO extended here in Cambridge (or even if you didn't) and have more questions about Chrome and HTML5, you will enjoy the meeting.From Arne: "We'll share the strengths and extents of HTML5, showing magnificent demos of bleeding-edge features in Google Chrome. Digging into high-fidelity graphics, performance, and system integration, we’ll break each demo down on the big screen to show how it was constructed. Then we’ll show you how to use Chrome to its full potential in your own projects."

On April 20th  Saurabh Gupta, a Google developer advocate in Google's New York City office, will give a presentation on Google Apps Scripting.   The presentation will be held at Google's offices here in Cambridge Massachusetts at 6:30PM.Saurabh is part of Google's Apps & Cloud Developer Relation team whose mission is to "Make Google Apps & Cloud platform the cloud ecosystem of choice for the global Developer Community". Saurabh works with the extremely talented Google Apps Script team to help developers and partners adopt Apps Script. Outside of work, he is an avid newshound and plays racquetball. He takes keen interest in startups and entrepreneurs. In spare time, he conducts experiments to come up with tools that assist in better software architecture practices in enterprises.

Google Maps API and Fusion Tables    Description: The Google Maps API is the most used mapping API in the world, currently on over 350 thousand websites around the world. Google Fusion Tables is a modern data management web application making it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish data tables online. Together, they make a powerful mapping platform, allowing people to easily upload data, and publish it on a map. This talk will introduce Google Fusion Tables and show how to use it with the Google Maps API so you can quickly build a spatial data management system.     Bio: Mano has been on Google’s Developer Relations team for the last four years, and is the lead Developer Advocate for Google’s Geo APIs. He has travelled the world helping individuals, corporations, governments and aid organizations use Google’s mapping technologies to communicate their message to the world. Before Google, Mano had an eclectic career that involved getting a Masters in History, a Masters in Information Management and Systems, and working as a data manager in NGOs for over a decade.

Come join us as we talk about how to build Google Chrome Apps and Extensions.

In the morning, we'll cover APIs for building Chrome extensions and apps. After lunch we'll have an extended hacking session with Googlers on hand to answer all your questions. At the end of the day we'll have some special prizes for the coolest applications developed that day.

 

  

General discussion about the future plans for Mas GTUG.

 

Mass GTUG met this time at a local brewery where we me and talk about all different kinds of Google Technologies without having formal presentation. This way we managed to combine socializing and a technical meeting into one.

Come join us as we talk about how you can build on Google Buzz.  In the morning, we'll cover several open standards (including Activity Streams, OAuth, PubSubHubbub, and Salmon) and go in depth with the Google Buzz API and libraries. After lunch we'll have an extended hacking session with Googlers on hand to answer all your questions. At the end of the day we'll have some special prizes for the coolest applications developed that day.

We don't have any set agenda but we can still get together to discuss the latest developments in Google APIs and development tools.

Our next GTUG meeting is devoted to Google Apps Marketplace. We will have a guest speaker Don Dodge who is a Developer Advocate at Google helping developers build new applications on Google platforms and technologies.

Luke Hutchinson and Greg Milette who are both Android developers will provide the API overview and share their experience in mobile development. Luke Hutchison -- Anatomy of an Android App -- how to get started programming for Android, how to find your way around an Android project in Eclipse (what each file in a project is for), live debugging in Eclipse -- Multi-touch on Android -- multi-touch capabilities of current Android devices, limitations, "the multi-touch conspiracy" -- OLED screen technology on the Nexus One -- General Android Q&A Luke's background: -- current PhD student in Computer Science at MIT CSAIL, former Google intern -- Android hacker, got multi-touch scaling working in the browser on the G1 -- have developed about five sizeable Android apps Greg Milette I'll cover UI layouts, Database, using the files and R.* stuff, the speech recognition and text to speech API, and other things that I can think of. Some areas of the Android APIs are amazingly easy and will make you smile, some areas are depressingly quirky and will steal away whole afternoons of time. During my talk, you will learn how to use some these APIs so that you can more quickly create your first app. Along the way, I'll tell a sad, yet hopeful programming story. Greg's background: Greg Milette has been a software engineer in the defense industry for 7 years. One day, he acquired a G1 Android phone. One hour later, he created "hello world." 3 months later, he entered an app into the Google's Developer Challenge and placed 19th in the Lifestyle app category.

A talk by Mark Renouf covering some of the new features of GWT 2.0.

If you've been curious about GWT but haven't yet taken the dive, now is the best time. With the release of GWT 2.0, developing rich ajax applications for the browser is easier than ever. Development mode browser support will allow use of even more of your favorite debugging tools like Firebug enable real time preview of the look and feel of your app exactly as it will appear to your users. UiBinder eliminates boilerplate and speeds development by letting you cleanly separate design and layout from functionality. Layout panels provide a new option for making the most efficient use of the browser area by providing a fluid, resizable layout container.

He will give a brief review of what GWT is and why it works the way it does, followed by real examples of how the new features make GWT even more powerful. This talk will be primarily aimed at potential new users of GWT.

It is not an introduction to web programming or a Google Apps session. It is assumed you know server-side web development — perhaps ASP, JSP or PHP. Please note, this session will be based on Python. Still, it is not a programming language session — the emphasis will be on learning the available APIs which are common between Java and Python on GAE. The idea is to familiarize everyone with the basic App Engine APIs. We will create a toy bank and be able to transfer "money" between accounts.

Speaker - J. Singh

The Hackathon will be held on November 21st, 2009 (10:30 am - 6:30 pm) at Google Cambridge offices:
5 Cambridge Center, Floor 3-6
Cambridge, MA 02142

Please register, if you are interested in attending the Google Wave Hackaton.

This Hackathon will introduce software engineers to Google App Engine. It will be free of charge, first-come-first-served but preference will be given to software engineers in the web development area.

Meeting Agenda:
1. Introduction
2. GWT Technical Presentation (speaker - Mark Renouf)
3. Open Discussion

Meeting Agenda:
1. Introduction
2. Technical Presentation - Google Wave (speaker Monika Adamczyk)
3. Open Discussion