Morningstar Tech Talks

Ben Coverston - The Apache Cassandra Project - join us on 2/23

Morningstar Tech Talks Abstract: Cassandra is a new kind of database: it is more than a single-machine system. It naturally runs in a High-Availability configuration. All nodes in the system are symmetric; there is no sing

Join us on Thursday for a talk on the Principles of Software Craftsmanship

Morningstar Tech Talks Abstract: What does it mean to be a professional software developer? What rules do we follow? What attitudes do we hold? And how can we maintain our professionalism in the face of schedule pressur

Our next talk: Adrian Cole - Java Power Tools, the Cloud Edition


When: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:00 PM

Where: Morningstar22 West Washington Street 7th FloorChicago, IL 60602


Abstract:
John Ferguson Smart's book Java Power Tools, introduces many powerful tools for unit testing, build, and deployment activities. How do these tools relate to the cloud? During this session, we'll review tools in the jclouds ecosystem that connect to build, test, deployconcerns: Arquillian runs your testng or junit tests in any cloud.Hudson spawns slaves in the cloud to build your app faster. Whirr stands up Hadoop clusters to run your jobs. Pallet builds customized stacks and deploys your applications to them. At the end of this talk, you'll have a few more tools in your box, and a good sense of how cloud fits in.


Bio:
Adrian Cole founded the open source project jclouds last march, and isactively engaged in cloud interoperability and devops circles.Recently, he's worked at VMware helping make vCloud relevant todevelopers and ISVs. He's also put in effort at Opscode on java-chefintegration. Adrian's currently consulting under Cloud Conscious LLC.


This meetup is co-sponsored by the jclouds meetup group. You need only RSVP to one or the other - http://www.meetup.com/jclouds/calendar/14968007/


RSVP to this Meetup:http://www.meetup.com/Morningstar-Tech-Talks/calendar/14983917/

Morningstar Tech Talks Abstract: John Ferguson Smart's book Java Power Tools, introduces many powerful tools for unit testing, build, and deployment activities. How do these tools relate to the cloud? During this se

You are invited to join us on 8/31 for a talk by Leon Chism.

Abstract: The pace of change and advancement in technology and business is accelerating at an ever increasing pace and startups are often on the edge of that process, pushing it forward and incorporating new understanding as quickly as possible. Recent developments have provided a common language and some formalization for the processes that successful startups have refined over time to find and execute successful businesses, revealing that in many ways a startup is an "agile" business process. In this discussion we'll take a look at these recent developments and what it means to be an agile business. We'll also discuss how startups typically operate in ways that differ from more traditional businesses, how that impacts product and technology development, and how non-startups can leverage some of the more advantageous aspects of "agile" businesses.

Bio: Leon Chism is an architect, developer, and startup CTO with more than 13 years of experience leading teams in the development of high volume, highly scalable web applications using a variety of technologies. He has held leadership positions in the technology organizations at Viewpoints Network, Orbitz, and Neoglyphics Media Corporation. Currently Leon is consulting and advising a number of local startups in the development of their technology teams and technology strategy.

Registration is free and open to all, so feel free to forward the invitation. Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Morningstar-Tech-Talks/calendar/14473242/

Leon Chism - "It's not just a job, it's a way of life" - Morningstar Tech Talks (Chicago, IL) - Mee Abstract: The pace of change and advancement in technology and business is accelerating at an ever increasing pace and startups are often on the edge of that process, pushing it forward and incorpora