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New England Software Symposium 2007: Spring Edition
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Topic: New England Software Symposium 2007: Spring Edition
Date/Time: March 9-11, 2007
Location: Sheraton Ferncroft, Danvers, MA
Charge: $750 Early Bird Registration
Contact: Jay Zimmerman <jzimmerman@nofluffjuststuff.com>

The New England Software Symposium: Spring Edition returns to Boston
on March 9-11th. NESS 2007 will offer five concurrent sessions for you
to choose from. The hot topics covered at NESS 2007 include:

  • Groovy/Grails
  • OSGI
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Annotations
  • Java 6.0
  • REST
  • JRuby
  • Enterprise Ajax
  • JPA and many more!

We have a set of speakers lined up for you to enjoy featuring:

Ted Neward, author "Effective Enterprise Java"
Venkat Subramaniam, co-author  "Practices of an Agile Developer"
Greg Murray, Leading Ajax Expert with Sun Neal Ford,
author "Art of Java Web Development"
Jared Richardson, co-author of "Ship It"
Brian Goetz, author of "Java Concurrency in Practice"
Mark Richards, author of "Java Transactions Design Strategies"
Scott Davis, Editor in Chief AboutGroovy.com
and many more....

The No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium series is regarded as the premier
Java/Agility event series anywhere serving over 16,000 attendees with
some 100 events since 2002. The popularity of the NFJS symposium
series can be traced to the following:

1). Exceptional Speakers
2). Limited Attendance - capped at 250 people
3). No Vendors, No Sales Pitches, no Marketecture
4). Excellent networking opportunities with speakers and fellow attendees
5). The Best Value in the Java conferencing space period

Early Bird Registration $750/person good thru 2/20/07

Special $50 discount available to all New England JUG members, use the
discount code, nfjsusergroup50 when registering.

Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development
team to the show - rates good through 2/20/07:

5-9 Attendees: $675/person
10-14 Attendees: $650/person
15-24 Attendees: $625/person
25-over Attendees: $600/person

Great Swag in 2007 - all attendees receive a new 2007 NFJS laptop bag

Excellent Giveaways - Sony E-reader, Sony Playstation 3 and Apple iPods

Jay Zimmerman
NFJS 2007 Symposium Director
jzimmerman@nofluffjuststuff.com

Dear Colleagues,

Please join me in welcoming Janet Riley Bowker to IS&T's Developer Software and Platform Services team in Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture (ISDA).  As a new Web Developer, Janet primarily will focus on our content management services, including Alfresco, as well as "Wilson projects."

Janet comes to us from Lycos, where she was a Technical Lead on social
networking systems.  She has nearly 10 years of software development
experience, programming in Java, C/C++, PHP, J2EE, and XML.  She also has experience with MySQL, SQL, PL/SQL, and Oracle databases. Additionally, she brings with her some key UI, back-end and testing experience, especially in the area of social computing which will be helpful in future projects.

She will be sitting in W92-140 and can be reached at jbowker @ mit.edu, tel 617-324-5963. Please stop by and welcome her to MIT.

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