Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group

JavaFX with Richard Bair

Dec '09 9 Wed 6:00 PM

Location: Googleplex (Bldg. 43)

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Tunis Conference Room
Mountain View, CA 94043
(408) 582-2985

Attendance: 119 people attended.
4.5019 (19 ratings)
Who organized?
Keith Combs and Stephen Chin

This is the grand kick-off of the new Silicon Valley JavaFX Users Group. We are co-hosting it with the Silicon Valley Web JUG, and are honored to have Richard Bair - JavaOne 2009 RockStar, Devoxx speaker, and JavaFX team lead. Be sure to sign up early to save a spot!

You only need to respond to this meetup request if you are attending in person.

For those of you attending remotely, we will have a live video feed and the opportunity to participate remotely by asking questions.

For the video feed, please go to the following ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv...
To participate, please log on to Google Moderator at the following URL: http://moderator.apps...

Agenda

6:00-6:45pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google
6:45-7:00pm Group introduction & announcements
7:00-8:30pm Main Talk followed by Q&A
8:30-9:00pm Raffle and additional networking time

About the speaker

Richard is a longtime speaker and member of the Swing Team at Sun Microsystems. He has his roots as an application developer turned toolkit developer and is the lead of the component toolkit API for JavaFX. He is a frequent presenter and often teams up with other UI luminaries to produce demos for JavaOne and other conferences. As an application developer he had a specific penchant for databases and multi-tier design.

This event is brought to you with support from the following sponsors:

Parleys.com provides free streaming of our videos.
JFrog supports our meetup membership and gives free prizes.

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Who attended?

119 attendees
- Eric Wendelin
  
  “ Very informative. Had some great demos including those from Josh Marinacci. ”
- Cindy Church
  
  “ Very knowledgeable and personable. His speaking time was cut short...need to manage the meeting time better so the speakers get their allotted time for their presentation. ”
- Anu Bhagat
  
  “ exceptional. I truly enjoyed hearing about JavaFx from the expert. Also look forward to using sunspot which I won at the meetup. Regards, Anu Bhagat ”
- Aleksandar Gargenta
  
  “ A great kickoff event! Rock-star speakers, flawless organization, and a great turnout! Plus I enjoyed getting a refresher on the state of JavaFX. ”
- Alan Carwile
  
  “ A couple people asked about JavaFX versus Flex and other UI development methods. A key developer challenge is to be ready to compare/contrast and be productive with the myriad range of methods (Swing, JavaFX, Flex, Lasszlo, Javascript, dynamic HTML, etc. etc.). I'd like this group to help me learn about talks on other technologies as well. ”
- Nicolas Lorain
  
  “ Richard is a great presenter and has a thorough knowledge of JavaFX. He's done a great job providing an overview of JavaFX and responding questions from the audience ”
- Keith MacDonald
  
  “ I was actually expecting something a bit more advanced - I know that it was sort of the "first" meeting etc. but I suspect that most people who have joined the users group already know the real basics (I might be wrong of course). I hope that a future meetup can start to explore some more "best practices" etc. since this is a new platform. The audio for the webcast was rough at the beginning but was very good for the remainder. The video of the presentation was not ideal - we really couldn't read what was being presented but I know this is a difficult thing to handle. ”
- Brian Coan
  
  “ Very good intro talk, good mix of high-level perspective and basic code features. ”
- Tom Barbaro
  
  “ Good presentation. I was attending remotely. Very hard to read slides on the screen. ”
- Jeff Sawyer
- Peter Fernandez
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- Patrick Webster
- Stuart Marks
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- Linda Ross
- Kirill Grouchnikov
- Rohan Ranade
- Fabian
- Winston Prakash
- Jonathan Lindo
- Michael P.
- Jerome
- Darrell Andrews
- Consuelo Griego
- Stephen Chin
- Travis Wellman
- Marina Fisher
- Jasmin Kuster
- carldea
- Carolina
- Newton C
- Ric Smith
- Sridhar Reddy
- Kiran Anantha
- Evan Scott
- Sachin Gaikwad
- John Baker
- Dem Pilafian
- Keith Sutton
- Arun K Viswanathan
- Kuldip Pabla
- Keith Combs
- Alex Ruiz
- Van Riper
- Nancy Hildebrandt
- Joanne
- ed
- Maiko Rocha