We are back after our last YouTube event, this time with GO Programming! Bob Hancock, fellow Google Tech Organizer from New York will be here to talk on GO.

Date: 5th June 2012 6:30 PM.

Location:

Sapient, 1515 North Courthouse Road, 4th Floor

Arlington, VA 22201-2909

TalkGo version 1.0 was just released and is the first language that makes concurrency a part of the language as opposed to being a design pattern. It combines many of the best elements of C and Python. It provides lightning quick compilation allowing rapid iteration with the speed of a compiled strongly typed language.Although there are no objects it allows binding of functions to data with a type of interface that is unique to Go.If you want to maximize both engineering and server time you need to know about Go.

 

Speaker Bio:

Bob Hancock is the Principal in Sirguey-Hancock, Ltd., a software engineering consultancy. Manager of the New York City Google Developer's Group, co-organizer of New York City Python, member of the national Pycon organizing committee, and teacher of Google technologies for the Google Ventures / Startup Weekend joint venture.At last count, I had learned 18 programming languages, but I have worked primarily in C, C++, Java, and Python. Nowadays, most of my work is in Python and C while trying to convince people to use Go.Recently I presented the tutorial Optimizing with Parallelism and Concurrency at Pycon 2012 in California and at the the /dev/null Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Later this year I will speak about concurrency and performance in Brazil and Argentina.Current interests: large scale concurrency/parallelism and big data. An obsession with performance and scaling. I’m leading a small group of engineers to build a concurrent implementation of K-Means Clustering in Go.

Sponsors: Sapient

 

Innovate or die has become an unofficial mantra of the twenty-first century. Each day, nations, corporations, and individuals are transformed by innovative thinking. It has the power to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges (think: jobs, energy, poverty) and transform the global economy. But even innovation has its limits.Google and The Milken Institute are happy to host former U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, and The Economist’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran whose new book, Need, Speed and Greeddelves into innovation and its potential.

The conversation will be moderated CNBC contributor Tony Fratto.The talk will be followed by snacks, drinks, and a book signing with Vijay.

Where: Google DC Office1101 New York Avenue, NW2nd FloorEntrance on Eye Street Washington, DC 20005

Innovate or die has become an unofficial mantra of the twenty-first century. Each day, nations, corporations, and individuals are transformed by innovative thinking. It has the power to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges (think: jobs, energy, poverty) and transform the global economy. But even innovation has its limits.Google and The Milken Institute are happy to host former U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, and The Economist’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran whose new book, Need, Speed and Greeddelves into innovation and its potential.

The conversation will be moderated CNBC contributor Tony Fratto.The talk will be followed by snacks, drinks, and a book signing with Vijay.

Where: Google DC Office1101 New York Avenue, NW2nd FloorEntrance on Eye Street Washington, DC 20005

Please join Google Apps Script Team on March 7, 2012 for an Apps Script hackathon in Washington, DC.

The Registration is at the Google Site

Learn about Apps ScriptThe event will include an overview of the major features of Google Apps Script. Apps Script enthusiasts will be on hand to help and to answer questions throughout the day.

Build with Us or Build Your Own

Throughout the day, we will be building a complete script using Apps Script and sharing the code with you so you can code along with us. If, on the other hand, you already have a great idea for what to build, bring that idea with you to the hackathon. Even better, bring along anything you can prepare ahead of time (sketches, designs, mockups, etc.) and use the time and information provided to develop your idea into a working application, then share it with the world.At the end of the day, we'll invite you to share your scripts with the group.

What Do I Need?

We will provide facilities, power, food, refreshments, and experts to help you learn to use Apps Script and write your own scripts. Just bring your laptop, basic familiarity with JavaScript, ideas, and enthusiasm to complete the mix.When and Where?The hackathon will take place Wednesday, March 7, 2012 from 2:00pm to 8:00pm. It will be held at the Google DC office at 1101 New York Ave NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005.

General overview of what you could accomplish with the YouTube Data and Player APIs, and answer developer questions.

Speaker: Jeffrey Posnick, Google.

Jeff is a Senior Developer Programs Engineer based in New York City. He currently helps developers navigate the ins and outs of the YouTube APIs. Before joining Google in 2007, Jeff spent time working in the financial and publishing industries.Jeff's G+ profile: http://www.posnick.org/jeff

Location Sponsor: USA Today

Let's start the New Year with Cloud 'Stuff'.

The Cloud is an opportunity for developers to embrace agility and change, reinvent themselves, make money and have fun. It's time to start building your dreams on it!

Partner Meetups: mongoDB DC,  DevOppsDC

Location: CustomInk, 7902 Westpark Dr, McLean, VA 22102

The location is great for a meetup, but little tricky to get to the building from Parking Garage. Be sure to grab the Driving Directions. Be ready for a tour of the Cool CustomInk office before or after the Meetup!

Time: Wed, Feb 1, 2012, 6:30 - 9:00 PM

Abstract:There is a profound architecture transition happening in software in 2011, like we see every 15 years: html5 and mobile on the client, cloud on the server.This talk will explain the opportunities and challenges that the Cloud represents for developers, in 4 areas: Infrastructure, Platform, Software and Development.This talk will describe the capabilities, philosophies and issues associated with current Cloud Platform offerings (Google Appengine, Azure, Beanstalk, CloudFoundry, Heroku), for different use cases (public, private, hybrid clouds) and the nascent Cloud Development services (Cloudbees, Exo, Cloud9, Github).We will dive into the code of a sample Cloud Foundry app using Node.js, MongoDb, the Twitter API and Lanyrd Calendar feeds, to show how Cloud Platforms enable a more agile development process.We will also discuss opportunities and risks for developers to move their apps to the Cloud, new skills to learn, and old habits to forget.Patrick Chanezon - Senior Director, Developer Relations, VMwarePatrick joined VMware in 2011 in San Francisco, to create the developer relations team, and make VMware and Cloud Foundry the first choice of developers moving their apps to the cloud. Previously he worked at Google from 2005 to 2011, where he managed the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team and has been building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API, and worked as a software architect at Sun Microsystems, AOL, Netscape and Accenture.More on his blog or his twitter stream.

Please join NCAGTUG at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, and the wipit for an exciting evening focused on mobile monetization! 

Location: Fisher Colloquium, Hariri Building - Georgetown University Campus

Speakers and Panelists:

Richard Kang,  CEO Wipit Inc

Lance Nanek, Developer Evangelist, HTC

Larry McDonough,  Platform Evangelist & Developer Champion, RIM

Danilo Diaz, Windows Mobile Developer Evangelist, Microsoft -Bio

Mark Murphy,  Android Trainer

Lance Taschner, Wipit Inc

Event Sponsors: 

HTC Dev

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business

wipit 

Speaker Bios:

Richard Kang: CEO - Wipit, Inc.

Richard is a seasoned executive with over 10 years of wireless telecom industry experience, most recently as an equity partner at VHA and Eureka Revenue Inc. (Eureka!), where he carried the roles of Vice President of Sales and General Manager. VHA is a national leader in the distribution of prepaid telecom products and the highest volume distributor for Boost Mobile. Richard guided Eureka! through its entrepreneurial stages and established it as a leading distributor of prepaid airtime, eventually reaching annual revenues of over $192 million. He has also held executive positions at several partners of AT&T Wireless, where he worked closely with the carrier in developing highly successful Master Agent and retail Premier Exclusive Agent distribution programs. Richard graduated from Cal Poly, Pomona and received his Global Executive MBA at The USC Marshall School of Business. 

Lance Taschner: VP of Software Engineering - Wipit, Inc.

Lance has developed a unique mix of business and technology acumen over his nearly 20 years of experience as a successful software architect and developer. He has worked on many high profile projects for companies including Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Kingston Technologies. In 2005 -­‐ 2007, Lance held the executive position of Director of Engineering for the successful prepaid transaction processing startup EWI. At EWI, he played a key role in the company’s acquisition by Blackhawk Networks (a subsidiary of Safeway Inc. (NYSE:SWY)) one of the foremost leaders in the prepaid gift card industry. 

Enjoy good food, win cool door prizes, network with other developers, and find out more about the latest mobile monetization trends!

Space is limited, so RSVP now and let us know you're coming!

For participation and sponsorship opportunities, please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] (NCA GTUG)

Parking: Parking Garage Address:

3607 M Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20007

Cash only parking is available at the campus Southwest Parking Garage (see address below).  Exit the garage and proceed past the athletic field (building is on the right side).

MoDevEast2011 Dec 2-3, 2011 - Gannett Conference Center

MoDevEast2011 is a two day conference and hackathon event where beginning and advanced mobile developers and marketers gain the upper edge. If you are developing apps or mobile websites, targeting phones or tablets, staying ahead is paramount in this fast moving industry. The Friday conference schedule will offer five tracks that hone development skills and sharpen mobile business strategy across Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 platforms. For developers who want more and a chance at over $15,000 in prizes there's a free hackathon event on Saturday from 9am-6pm. Win a Macbook Air 11" provided by O'Reilly or a new copy of CS 5.5 by Adobe and much more.

 

Just $199 for a full day of expert mobile programming. (Government and student rates available) www.modeveast.com

 

Abstract: As part of improving "information sharing" across enterprise/organization, we seek to work more intelligently; search becomes an essential element any enterprise information architect. Organizations face challenges when their people are more and more demanding on how they access and organize information. This talk addresses what it takes to respond to these two trends, from delivering on search fundamentals such as relevancy as well as new approaches such as leveraging social signals and access to content in the cloud. Main focus of the talk is on the Google Search Appliance technology.

Speaker: Sung Nguyen - Google Federal Principal Technologist at Google

Sung has 16+ years experience in Software Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems, and Software Lifecycle Management platform. His current focus is on large enterprise information sharing, systems analysis and security analysis to provide Google innovation / technology recommendations and solutions to US Federal/Government Agencies. Sung spoke at many US agency's conferences: NIH, NASA, EPA, VA...

Prior to serving as Google Federal Principal Technologist at Google, Sung Nguyen was a recognized CORBA expert in OMG while being as Borland Software Principal Systems Engineer. Sung is one of the co-authors of "Mastering JBuilder" Wiley technical book published in 2003. Sung spoke at many Borland international software conferences.

Date: Nov 17th, Thursday, 6:30 PM

Location: Near Infinity,  1881 Campus Commons Drive #203 , Reston, VA

Sponsors: Near Infinity Corporation - Location

Google - Speaker and Pizza.

 

 

We all had a shaking, twirling and swirling summer and it will be over soon. We have lined up great events for the Fall and Winter. Let's start with a full day Mobile Hackathon with the support from AT&T Developer Program.

This Hackathon is aimed at developing in all platforms using various slick frameworks available.

Please RSVP here or EventBrite (preferred) at 

http://mobileappiad.eventbrite.com/

or at FaceBook

http://on.fb.me/nvOwzS 

Lot of Giveaways are waiting. For Sponsorship, please contact Chida.

Dev-ing. Mobile. Good food. Awesome prizes. 

Mobile App Hackathon is an event for mobile developers to come together, network, learn about new technologies, build mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. 

Mobile App Hackathon events are brought to you by the AT&T Developer Program. Show some love by hitting this link a couple of times: http://bit.ly/iHjFne. Know that if you need help with your mobile app, the AT&T Developer Program is here to help.

Action Items For You:

1. Help spread the word about AT&T Hackathons by liking our Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/p7VIBA
2. Use the Facebook event page to network and form teams : http://on.fb.me/mobileappiad 
3. Tweet about the event via #mobileappBOS

As far as platforms are concerned, feel free to code in the language you feel most comfortable, whether it's Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, or XNA. We will also have live developer support from 

Sencha, Apigee, RedFoundry, PhoneGap, AppMobi, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and NCAGTUG for Android teams to help you code that much faster.

Here is a quick overview of the schedule:

• 10:00a  Registration and Breakfast + Networking + Start Coding if you want!
• 11:00a  Lightning Talks
• 12:00p  Lunch is Served!
• 7:00p  App Submission Deadline
• 7:30p App Demos
• 8:30p  Content Winners Announced & Drinks!

Interested in who will be presenting as well as helping you code? Read on!

Sam Ramji spent over 15 years working across enterprise software, product development and open source strategy. Currently VP of strategy at Apigee & board member at the CodePlex Foundation, Sam works deeply within the developer, open source and social app communities to create a healthier, more productive ecosystem. Prior to Apigee, Sam led open source strategy across Microsoft and was a founding member of the AquaLogic product team at BEA. In his spare time, Sam enjoys the great outdoors, spending time with the kids, and bacon.

You can also find Sam on twitter via @sramji and his website at http://samus.typepad.com/

James Pearce is a technologist, writer, developer & entrepreneur who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy. He speaks extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and has written books for both Wiley and Wrox.

You can also find James on twitter via @jamespearce and his website at http://tripleodeon.com

 

 

This event is co-hosted with Nova/DC Java Users Group.

 

Please use the following for registration   

http://www.meetup.com/dc-jug/events/2639925...

 

While Android is mostly on phones and similar-sized devices, there is growing interest in tablets, and televisions with Android apps are just around the corner. Google is pushing for Android developers to support the wide range of screen sizes... but how can one do this without going completely insane, maintaining several different code bases?  

This presentation will cover strategies for building one application, with one set of code, that supports phones, tablets, televisions, and anything else that comes along (watches? Jumbotrons?). Particular emphasis will be placed on the tools provided by the Honeycomb user interface framework for accomplishing this, notably the concept of "fragments".  This presentation will be mostly architectural and strategic, more than showing tons of code listings. As such, while it is aimed for attendees with Android experience, relative newcomers to the platform should understand a fair bit of the material covered.

Speaker: Mark Murphy is the author of  numerous books on the Android platform, and teaches regular training classes on the Android platform.

Please visit our sponsor site

Link:  http://about.me/aoltechjobs

 

 

What: This NCAGTUG is featuring a technical presentation on “Making the web faster” by Patrick Meenan from Google Technical Team based in Reston.  

Location: OPower HQ – 1515 North Courthouse Road, on the 6th floor, in Arlington- right off the Orange Line of the DC Metro (Courthouse Stop)

Speaker: Patrick Meenan, Member of Technical Staff, Google

Patrick created WebPagetest while at AOL and now works at Google with a team that is working to make the web faster. He has been working on optimizing low-level networking performance for various applications (among other responsibilities) over the last 15 years.

Abstract:

Patrick will cover web performance from the network up to the browser front-end and will include (and not necessarily in this order):

- Front-end vs back-end web performance- TCP improvements in linux 2.6.39- SPDY- WebPagetest- Chrome prefetch- Page Speed- mod_pagespeed

- Navigation Timing spec (Most important)

Parking: Plenty of parking in the garage behind or free parking around the building.

 

After Party!: Ireland’s Four Courts is across the street!

Sponsors: Please contact us (contact at nca-gtug.org) for sponsoring this event.

Venue is sponsored by OPower

Registration: NCAGTUG Meetup Site

 

NCAGTUG proudly announces our next Googler, Arne from Google Chrome Development to be at our forum in an another joint Event with NoVAJUG Don't miss this event if you are into Chrome Browser Development and HTML5. This combination is changing the world how we approach web, client-server and mobile application.

When: June 1st 2011, Wed, 6:30 PM

Where:  AOL, 22000 AOL Way Dulles, VA

Speaker: Arne Roomann-Kurrik - Google Developer Relations Engineer- Chrome Developer Program

He underwent the ritual of spice agony in late 2010. Now he supports Web Store & Extension developers and rides Shai-Hulud in his spare time.  Just like the rest of you, he puts his pants on one leg at a time; except that once his pants are on, he makes excellent samples, developer tools, and documentation.

Abstract:

Get a handle on the newest Chrome browser features you'll be using in the coming year. Through a series of demos featuring file access, graphics, sound, and system integration, you'll learn how to integrate these APIs into projects that give desktop apps a run for their money. We'll share the strengths and extents of HTML5, showing magnificent demos of bleeding-edge features in Google Chrome.

Agenda:6:30 PM - 7:00 PM   Arrive, mingle and Networking

7:00 PM - 7:15 PM   Guest Speaker

7:15 PM - 8:15 PM   Chrome/HTML5 - Arne 

8:15 PM - 8:45 PM   Wrap-up and Networking

Sponsors:

Location is Sponsored By: AOL  AOL is Hiring 

Registration: Register at NCAGTUG's Meetup  Page

 

NCAGTUG proudly announces Patrick Chanzeon from Google Cloud Platform to be at our forum in an another joint Event with NoVAJUG

More Detail: NCAGTUG Website

Speaker: Patrick Chanezon- Google Developer Relations Manager - Cloud Platform 

Patrick joined Google in 2005, he manages the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team in San Francisco. Previously he has been a Developer Advocate, building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API.

Previously he spent 5 years at Sun Microsystems as a software architect working on Sun Portal Server, blogs and syndication feeds, and received the CEO award for helping launch blogs.sun.com. Previously he spent 5 years at AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal, and 2 years at Accenture as a Lotus Notes guru. He co-created the ROME open source project, and the OSSGTP group in France.

http://wordpress.chanezon.com/

 

Abstract: Google is a Data business: over the past few years, many of the tools Google created to store, query, analyze, visualize its data, have been exposed to developers as services. This talk will give you an overview of Google services for Data Crunchers and Web Semantic 3.0 professionals: 

- Google Storage for developers

- BigQuery, fast interactive queries on Terabytes of data

- Machine Learning API: Machine Learning made easy

- Google App Engine, exposing Data APIs is a very common use case for App Engine

- Visualization API: many cool visualization components

- Freebase, An entity graph of people, places and things, built by a community that loves open data.

- Google Refine, a power tool to work with messy data

Sponsor: Location is sponsored by Near Infinity Corporation

 

 

Subject:

Android Hackathon is a not-for-profit event for the Android platform, encouraging development using both the native Android SDK and web standards.

At this one day event, participants will have an opportunity to design, develop and demo a complete application. There will also be a beginner opportunity that will help first-time Android developers become familiar with the basics of the Android ecosystem. The event kicks off on Saturday, April 30, 2011, where ideas and teams will come together. Teams will have the rest of the day to build their applications. Teams will then present their work to the public in the evening and winners will be chosen.Instead of back-to-back presentations followed by several variations of "Hello World," Hackathon is all about coding and completing a full-featured Android application using Android technologies. While there will be opportunities to try new APIs and learn new features, teams will be expected to produce a real, working application in one day in return for free meals and a chance for fame and fortune, should one create the next killer app.   

Feeling up to the challenge? Please register by clicking the "Count Me In" button above. Attendance is capped, so register soon -- all registrations are on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Cost: There will be nominal cost for the event. Working with sponsors to reduce/avoid cost. Please help us find sponsors. Please feel free to post or send mail to Organizer at namachi at nasotech.com.

Agenda: 

 

April 30, 2010 (Saturday) : 09:00 AM: Doors Open09:00 - 09:30 AM: Welcome, Introductions, Networking and Breakfast09:30 - 10:00 AM: Introduction to Android (Presentation-only talk on the Android Ecosystem, Architecture, Basic Android Concepts, etc. No prior Java or mobile development experience required.)10:30 - 11:00 AM: Teams Form (Pitch Sessions. Each team will have 2-3 minutes to pitch their ideas to recruit other developers.)11:00 AM: Hacking Begins12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch01:00 -  6:00 PM: Hacking Continues 6:00 -  7:00 PM: Dinner7:00 -  8:00 PM: App Presentations and Awards ceremony 9:00 PM: Pack It Up and Doors Close 

 

 

Location: Near Infinity Corporation, 1881 Campus Commons Drive #203, Reston, VA

 

Sponsor: Pizza and Liquid Refreshments. Location sponsored by Near Infinity Corporation.

Contact: Shiva Thirumazhusai.  namachi at nasotech.com

 

 

What: This NCA GTUG is featuring the next  presentation on “Google Apps Script” by Saurabh Gupta from Google Developer Relations Team based in New York.

This new feature in Google Apps is useful for small businesses, non-profit organizations and everyone else who are using the cloud based Google Docs.

Google Apps Script is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services. Apps Script provides simple to use APIs for integrating various Google and non-Google services (e.g. Calendar, Contacts, Maps, Twitter etc.). Apps Script does not require any compilation and deployment. With a simple browser based editor, you can start writing and executing scripts.

With Apps Script you can:

 

•  
• Automate repetitive business processes. (e.g. expense approvals, time-sheet tracking, ticket management, order fulfillment, and much more)
• Link Google products with third party services (e.g. send custom emails and a calendar invitation to a list from a spreadsheet)
• Build UI applications in Google Sites and Google Spreadsheets. 
• Enhance spreadsheet functionality by creating custom spreadsheet functions.
• Automate tasks that are time or event driven. (e.g. run a nightly pending sales orders)

Presenter: Saurabh Gupta from Google, New York.

Location: OPower HQ – 1515 North Courthouse Road, on the 6th floor, in Arlington- right off the Orange Line of the DC Metro (Courthouse Stop)

Parking: Plenty of parking in the garage behind or free parking around the building.

After Party!: Ireland’s Four Courts is across the street!

 

Sponsors:

Venue is sponsored by OPower 

 

 

NCAGTUG is organizing an Android Apps Showcase where Android enthusiasts showcase their apps. The following are the scheduled apps. To showcase your apps please contact Shiva or me. We can host upto 6 apps. We have packed April with multiple events back to back! 

Apps Presenters: 

David Levy - SnapMap  

Gyuri Grell - Grandma Jong and Bravo 21 (Three more if time permits)

Han  -  MultiLing Keyboard and Lotus*Root puzzle.

CM Subra -  Thirteen / Tien Len - a card game with roots in Vietnam! - 

Harleen Sahni -   Media Button Router (Tentative)

Location: CustomInk - 7902 Westpark Drive McLean, VA, 22101

Parking: The access to the building is tricky.  

CustomInk office sits atop the parking garage at the corner of Jones Branch Road and Westpark Drive.  You may access the parking garage by turning left on Jones Branch and making the first right inside.  Take the elevators inside the parking garage to the 5th floor to access CustomInk office.

Navigating to the office from inside the parking garage.

• As you approach either parking garage gate, push the button to receive a ticket which we will later validate for you if necessary

• After parking, you will notice glass doors on the opposite side of the garage from the tall building (the Jones Branch Road side of the garage).  

• Enter these glass doors and take the elevator to the 5th floor to reach our office

Sponsors:

Venue is sponsored by CustomInk

 

 

NCAGTUG is being represented at Capital Technology Management Hub on the April Event 

Topic:

During this meeting, we will look at the ecosystem of the Apps in the cloud and how it can benefit organizations, entrepreneurs and business users. One of Google Apps's least known services available to enterprises is the Google Apps Marketplace. Beyond Google Docs, Calendar and Storage, Google provides numerous Project Management, Customer Management, Accounting & Finance, Scheduling, Productivity and Sales & Marketing applications for free or for very low costs

Google Apps provides the latest incremental and free upgrades to hundreds of applications, which make life better for an Enterprise. We will compare various editions and get a snapshot of how Google Apps is used in by the General Services Administration and by local and state governments.

Presenter: Chida - NCAGTUG.

 

Location: Teqcorner

1616 Anderson Road Mclean, VA 22102

Parking: Plenty of free parking around the building.

Sponsors:

Capital Technology Management Hub  

 

 

Subject:

This talk will take you through the process of designing and implementing an interactive data visualization using Google Web Toolkit. We will cover delivering a complete information experience using browser and server technologies including DOM, Canvas, SVG, ReST and Scala.

Presenter:

Jon Buffington leads Juice Analytic's product development team crafting software technology that transforms data into information experiences. Prior to joining Juice, Jon was Chief Technology Officer at Informiam, Inc. where he lead the development of an award-winning real-time customer care visibility platform.Jon combines more than 20 years of experience producing sophisticated technology products with his drive to solve real-world business problems in customer care, digital marketing, financial services, and health care. Jon received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. Jon lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and daughter.

Agenda:

(Come on time, the office shuts its door at 7)

6:30pm - 7:00pm   Arrive, mingle and eat pizza

7:00pm - 8:00pm   Presentation and Q&A

8:00pm - 8:30pm   Wrapup and post-discussion

Sponsors:

Venue is sponsored by Google  http://www.google.com/

Food and drinks are sponsored by Resonate Networks http://www.resonatenetworks.com/

 

 

NovaJUG: This event is being co-hosted with the NovaJUG.

Description: You have seen Android climb from a class Google ‘beta’ product to one of the leading mobile operating systems in use today worldwide. With Google TV, Android is also making the leap into the living room. With those plus other future opportunities, maybe you are considering getting into Android application development.

This presentation will review what Android is and the primary options for building Android applications. We will also discuss common concerns with Android application development, support resources, and how you can make money with Android.

Speaker: Mark Murphy, author of numerous books on the Android platform. Mark will be in town teaching an Android development class at Near Infinity, and has agreed to include a presentation to the NovaJUG during his trip.

 

 

What: NCA GTUG Meeting featuring a presentation on “Google Maps API and Google Fusion Tables” by Mano Marks from Google Developer Relations Team.

Description: The Google Maps API is the most used mapping platform in the world. On over 350,000 sites, it is also the most used mashup API. Recently, Google Fusion Tables has added spatial capabilities. Now Fusion Tables and the Maps API together make a quick and and easy geo stack. This talk will introduce you to using the Maps API with Fusion Tables and show case the capabilities of the two together.

Speaker: Mano Marks 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.

When: Tues March 1, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Sponsor: Location, Pizza and Liquid Refreshments will be provided by Google.  Thanks!

Location: Google DC Office, 1101 New York Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20005 (Metro Center Stop)

After Party!: Suggest Places

 

 

GWT Special Interest Group within NCA-GTUG is hosting the first event on GWT with Northern Virginia Java Users Group.

What: NovaJUG/NCA GTUG Meeting featuring a presentation on “Launching Scalable Apps with GWT 2.1 and Google App Engine” by David Chandler of the Atlanta Google Web Toolkit Team.

When: Tues Jan 18, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Sponsor: Pizza and Liquid Refreshments will be provided by Google. The location will be provided by OPower. Thanks!

Description: Google Web Toolkit (GWT) lets you build and optimize rich browser-based apps without having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, or JavaScript. Google AppEngine lets you build and host scalable Web applications written in Python or Java on Google’s infrastructure. In this talk, we’ll look at how to build and deploy a GWT+GAE application with Google Plugin for Eclipse and the GWT 2.1 application framework: MVP architecture with Activities and Places, persistence layer with RequestFactory and the GAE Datastore, and UI data binding with the Editor framework. We’ll also take a peek at GWT Designer for Eclipse and performance optimization with SpeedTracer.

Speaker: David Chandler works with the Google Web Toolkit Team in Atlanta. An electrical engineer by training, Chandler got hooked on developing database Web applications in the days of NCSA Mosaic and has since written Web applications professionally in a variety of languages, including C, perl, ksh, ColdFusion, Java, JSF, and GWT. Prior to joining Google, Chandler worked on Internet banking applications with Intuit and launched a non-profit startup built with GWT and AppEngine. Chandler holds a patent on a method of organizing hierarchical data in a relational database and blogs about Java Web development atturbomanage.wordpress.com.

Location: OPower HQ – 1515 North Courthouse Road, on the 6th floor, in Arlington- right off the Orange Line of the DC Metro (Courthouse Stop)

Parking: There should be plenty of parking in the garage behind or out in front of the building.

After Party!: Ireland’s Four Courts is across the street!

 

 

NCAGTUG is set to hold our next Meetup on November 17, 2010 with Washington DC Area - Hadoop User Group (HUG). The Topic will be Integration of MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.

"Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license.[1] It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers" - Wikipedia

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I am happy to announce that the company behind MongoDB, 10gen, is going to be in town running MongoDC and are excited to talk to us at our Meetup about MongoDB integration with Hadoop.

Location: Library of Congress - National Digital Library Learning Center James Madison Building 101 Independence Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20540

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00 Food and Refreshments, Socialize 7:00 - 7:45 Brendan McAdams - Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.

Using tools like MapReduce, Pig and Streaming you will learn how to do analytics and ETL on large datasets with the ability to load and save data against MongoDB. With Hadoop MapReduce, Java and Scala programmers will find a native solution for using MapReduce to process their data with MongoDB.

Programmers of all kinds will find a new way to work with ETL using Pig to extract and analyze large datasets and persist the results to MongoDB. Python and Ruby Programmers can rejoice as well in a new way to write native Mongo MapReduce using the Hadoop Streaming interfaces.

7:45 - 8:00 Short Break 8:00 - close TBD Don't Forget: Register for MonogoDC: MongoDB - DC Conference

Look forward to see you there!

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Chida NCA-GTUG.ORG

 

 

NCA GTUG invites you to an most intriguing and informative talk by Bob Hancock

Google Buzz API and OAuth OAuth and how it works. What is Google Buzz and how it fits into the Social Graph. More details soon..

By Bob Hancock fron New York City GTUG.

 

NCAGTUG is set to hold our next meetup on September 7, 2010 with Washington DC Area - Hadoop User Group (HUG).

"Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license.[1] It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers" - Wikipedia

We are excited to say that we have scheduled Tom White, the author of the book "Hadoop The Definitive Guide" to give a presentation. This would be a great opportunity for all the members to work together and pull in both of our communities. Cloudera will be sponsoring the meetup so food and drinks will be provided by them.

More Info from Hadoop meetup group: http://www.meetup.com... .

I'd like to thank our sponsors:

Booz Allen Hamilton - http://www.bah.com... Cloudera - http://www.cloudera.c... This meetup is in coordination with several other meetup groups from the area. I'd personally like to thank them for working with us and helping to organize this event:

DC useR Group - http://www.meetup.com... DC Python Meetup - http://meetup.zpugdc..... The Washington Semantic Web Meetup - http://www.meetup.com.... DC VA MD New Media Tech - Video - Social Web - http://www.meetup.com... National Capital Area Google Technology Users - http://www.meetup.com.... I'm excited to say we have two very special guests presenting at this meetup, Tom White and Aaron Cordova. Tom has been instrumental in shaping the direction and development of Hadoop and many projects in Hadoop's ecosystem. He is also the author of the book "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide" and a part of the team at Cloudera. Aaron Cordova is a UMD graduate working at Booz Allen Hamilton. Before joining Booz Allen Aaron played a key role in defining the critical large scale data analytics infrastructure and applications at the NSA. Currently Aaron focuses on helping government organizations manage and analyze large amounts of data using technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, and HBase. Thus enabling them to make better decisions and answer key questions important to business and operations.

Location: Kaiser Family Foundation - Public Affairs Center 1330 G St. NW Washington, DC 20005

1 block from the Metro Center Station metro stop.

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00 Food and Refreshments, Socialize 7:00 - 7:30 Tom White - Hadoop's powerful parallel processing paradigm provides a great generalized framework for storing and analyzing data. For all its raw power however the practical use of Hadoop requires more. What's needed is an integrated stack of components which makes it easier to develop and use real-world applications in a production environment. Tom will discuss the evolving Hadoop platform, its components and how each fills a critical role in making Hadoop more useful in the enterprise. 7:30 - 7:40 Short Break 7:40 - 8:10 Aaron Cordova - One of the barriers to scaling Hadoop to 10,000 machines is the single HDFS NameNode. Recent benchmarks [1] show that the HDFS needs to be able to do an order of magnitude more writes per second to reach 10,000. The most promising way to do this is to create a distributed NameNode. Aaron will discuss the issues surrounding distributing the NameNode functionality to multiple machines, including automatically and organically partitioning the namespace, how to keep operations serialized and durable, and how recovery from failure changes. 1. Shvachko, Konstantin. HDFS Scalability the Limits of Growth. USENIX Login Magazine. April 2010.http://www.usenix.org....

Don't Forget: Registration is open for Cloudera's Hadoop World in NYC More information here: http://www.cloudera.c....

Look forward to see you there!

To coincide with Silicon Valley GTUG we will initiate a similar effort in Reston through NCA-GTUG. Please participate in a conversation on HTML5 and start building an application. Showcase your HTML5 application in the next meeting.

Over the past 4 years Google, has gone from offering 8 API's to offering 80, and its offerings cover everything from the open-sourced Android SDK to the just-released Google Fonts API, targeting everyone from web developers to research scientists. In this talk, Pamela will attempt the impossible: introduce every API, show how they fit into your life as a developer, and why they exist  Speaker: Pamela Fox - Google Australia

Initial Kick-off Meeting