Jive Software

Jon Bottarini will be presenting on bug bounties (from both a hacker and a program perspective), common mistakes in the software development lifecycle that make it easier to find bugs, and what developers can do to understand their full attack surface.

Bio:

Jon Bottarini is a Technical Program Manager at HackerOne, where he is responsible for managing the bug bounty programs for the US Department of Defense and other companies looking to leverage talent from hacker-powered security. In his free time he is also a hacker and bug bounty hunter who has reported vulnerabilities to worldwide brands and organizations such as New Relic, Apple, Google, the US Department of Defense, and many more.

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jon_bottarini
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonbottarini

Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kelsey Hightower (Google) has been one of the most prolific evangelists of Kubernetes since its launch. Come join us at Jive for a discussion of what's coming with the 1.6 release!

The Portland, OR Atlassian User Group kicks off on April 19th, and you're invited to come along and take part in shaping our future.

Black Pearl PDM is kindly sponsoring, and will present a training session with tips and tricks for Jira. You will also have the opportunity to vote for topics you'd like to see at future AUGs.

We'll also hear from Amanda "AyBee" Smith, a Training Advocate for Atlassian University with news about how Atlassian University offerings have grown, and the forthcoming certification launch.

Jive Software is our host for this very first meet up, come with ideas for future discussions, presentations and locations.

Come join us for pizza and beer, bring a guest, and meet some new friends.

"No talks. You may opt to take up to 60 seconds to complain about Big Data. One paper per month, no obligation to read it."

We'll start by letting anyone who wants to take up to a minute to tell us what they've been doing with data lately.

This month's paper is Inferring Networks of Substitutable and Complementary Products by McAuley et al. Read it or don't - the goal is just to have something to start conversations. "Did you read the paper?" will do nicely.

Mention @PDXBigData on Twitter with the link to the full paper to suggest papers for future sessions.

There will be food.

Bob Loihl will be presenting:
Secure Software Development Life Cycle in an Agile World
In this day and age we must do everything we can to produce secure software. But how you ask? I will be talking about some of the options available and how to get an initiative started in your workplace/project. I will cover some of the choices out there for Agile Development and then we'll examine one choice, BSIMM (https://www.bsimm.com/), in more depth. I will follow that up with a discussion of some of the challenges and some of the benefits of implementing an SSDLC.

Bob Loihl is a Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience developing business applications, leading teams and spreading the security word. He has a strong interest in delivering applications that are secure by design in an agile world. He has been helping Tripwire grow and mature its development processes for the last 10 years and his current hobby is incorporating SSDLC (Secure Software Development Life-Cycle) processes into the software manufacturing process. Bob is passionate about family, software, canoes and guitars. In his spare time he works at Tripwire producing high quality software using Agile methodologies. Oh yeah, he cares a tiny bit about security.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. To sign up for future meeting notes and to discuss security topics with local gurus, sign up on the OWASP Portland mailing list:

 https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-portland

Meetings are free and open to the public.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

On the agenda this month:

Mentor night!  Bring a laptop if you can.  We will break into small groups, pairing people up with mentors, to work on some simple JavaScript projects.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail Jesse Hallett .

Our first meetup!  This will be a general introduction to Ansible, with Q+A afterwards. We'd also like to hear about how you are using Ansible in your environment.  Please let us know if you'd like to share some experiences and we'll give you some speaking time!

"No talks. You may opt to take up to 60 seconds to complain about Big Data. One paper per month, no obligation to read it."

We'll start by letting anyone who wants to take up to a minute to tell us what they've been doing with data lately.

This month's paper is Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store by DeCandia etal. Read it or don't - the goal is just to have something to start conversations. "Did you read the paper?" will do nicely.

Mention @PDXBigData on Twitter with the link to the full paper to suggest papers for future sessions.

We meet over beers and food to discuss problems, and solutions, we find using DITA. All are welcome.

Please join the LinkedIn group and ask any questions you might have!

It's summer and we are kicking it off with Jive and their fabulous people! Enjoy a beer, glass a wine and some bites while mingling with great people and hanging out on their fabulous deck.

PDX Women in Tech exists to celebrate professional women in the Portland-metro area who work with, manage, lead or have an interest in technology. Whether you are developing event-driven, non-blocking applications in node.js or setting technology strategy for a Fortune 500 company–or anything in between–come join us!

Rest Services with JAX-RS and Jersey

This talk covers using JAX-RS and Jersey to create REST services for embedded system. It covers the basic of JAX-RS and then moves into using Jackson for JSON encoding and using the streaming API to reduce memory footprint for using REST API in embedded systems.

Speaker

Brian Mason holds a Masters in Comp Science from Univ of IL. He has been developing for 25 years and currently works as developer at Netapp Inc.

Join us after Monitorama for food and beer and talks by:

Sean Porter (Heavy Water Ops, creator of Sensu)
Lindsay Holmwood, Jesse Reynolds and Ali Graham (Bulletproof, creators of Flapjack)

Arrive around 6:30pm to meet fellow DevOps folks over food and drink, talks start at 7:00pm. Space is limited to please RSVP to [email protected]

April we have a special guest speaker Dave Haeffner!

This will be the meetup you don't want to miss.  Dave is the author of a newly published book 'The Selenium Guidebook'.

Want to learn how to use Selenium from the ground up? -- In an hour Dave will show you how to start from nothing and build out a well factored, maintainable, resilient, and parallelized set of tests that will run locally, on a Continuous Integration server, and in the cloud. These tests will not only work well, but exercise relevant functionality that matters to the business. 

Dave is the writer of 

Selenium Guidebook: with this book you can learn how to craft automated acceptance tests that you and your team can trust. 

Elemental Selenium-- a free, once weekly Selenium tip newsletter that is read by hundreds of testing professionals. He is also the creator and maintainer of 

ChemistryKit (an open-source Selenium framework). He has helped numerous companies successfully implement automated acceptance testing; including The Motley Fool, ManTech International, Sittercity, and Animoto.  

Kevin Dyer will be presenting:

Over the last few years, password database breaches reported in mainstream press have increased in frequency and magnitude. There is a typical pattern and service providers, such as Adobe or Yahoo or Snapchat, fail on at least two fronts: first, network perimeters and databases are breached and then, improperly secured user data and passwords are exfiltrated and shared in cleartext. Even if the former can't be prevented, there are security best practices to mitigate the impact of the latter, which are (seemingly) ignored.

In this talk, we'll discuss specific case studies and review the essential security best practices for storing sensitive user information. The goal is to show that in every case free, off-the-shelf tools are available, that would have mitigated the scope of the breach and (possibly) the onslaught of negative publicity. As one example, we'll build intuition for why using Scrypt (a memory-hard function) is superior to traditional cryptographic hash functions for storing passwords.

Kevin P. Dyer is a PhD student at Portland State University. His research focuses on network security and building protocols resistant to traffic-analysis attacks and censorship. Previously, Kevin worked as a software engineer in telecommunications security, web security and network security. He holds an MSc in the Mathematics of Cryptography and Communications from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a BS in Computer Science with Mathematics from Santa Clara University.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. To sign up for future meeting notes and to discuss security topics with local gurus, sign up on the OWASP Portland mailing list:

 https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-portland

Meetings are free and open to the public.

Join us to talk about all things DITA.

Approaching Test Script Maintainability: From Node to Python by Justin Abrahms of Sprint.ly

Justin will talk about his journey at Sprint.ly converting their node.js selenium code to Python.

He will discuss why Sprint.ly chose Python as well as the pro's and con's of using it with Selenium. Justin will also discuss how they implemented the Page Object Pattern to improve test script maintainability.

Justin Abrahms is the lead engineer at
Sprint.ly, project management software that gets out of your way.

Come and learn how Jama is using Selenium WebDriver to test their massive single-page web application. We'll look at strategies and techniques for avoiding timing issues, test fragility, and other common pitfalls. We'll look at patterns like the PageObject pattern, and its extension, the PageElement pattern. We will also look at how Jama has integrated writing these tests into their process, and answer any other questions you may have about this challenge.

Bio:

Sean Adkinson is a senior developer at Jama Software, working full stack since the early days of the company in 2009. Jama's stack includes a large ExtJS front-end, with a Java/Spring/Hibernate and database-agnostic backend. Sean has spoke at multiple user groups, as well as the HTML5 Developer's Conference in San Francisco, and is excited to be speaking at the PDX Selenium group for the first time.

Come join an amazing group of ladies! No specific agenda, just network and have fun!

We are headed to Jive. Hell yes!

PDX Women in Information Technology exists to celebrate professional women in the Portland-metro area who work with, manage, lead or have an interest in technology. Whether you are developing event-driven, non-blocking applications in node.js or setting technology strategy for a Fortune 500 company–or anything in between–come join us!

@PDXWiIT

vendors: This is a friendly networking event only

3-4 Presentations of Selenium Design Patterns

Turn that flat code into something more robust.

More Info Coming Soon!

Turn that flat code into something more robust.

Selenium Veterans will talk about several Selenium Design Patterns to start the "witch's brew". Followed by an open discussion on Design Patterns.

Bring some ideas to share. You've probably used Design Patterns before and you didn't even know it!

Agenda:

Ryan Davis:

What is a Design Pattern?

Builder Design Pattern

An Doan

Chain Of Responsibility Design Pattern

Composite Design Pattern

Paul Grandjean

Command Design Pattern

Wraithan will share his experiences with developing IRC bots in Node.js to follow-up last month's Adam Ulvi(@s5fs) explaining the How and Why of IRC. Dave Manning will be sharing his thoughts on the implementation of Streams 2 API.

We'll also be starting a couple of monthly segments and would LOVE your participation and submissions--

1. "Stump the Chump", a 15-minute round of anything-goes, ask any question that's been irking you about Node.js. Those williing can stand up to help answer the question in an open, friendly learning environment.

2. "Modules You Should Know", a different module featured each month. We'd love for people to take a stab at this lightning-style talk. Learn a module, share it with us, help close that discovery gap that is growing in Node.js!

It will be a nice variety of topics and level of talks. If anyone is interested, we could also take discussions to post-talk drinks nearby. Maybe even hack a little.

Newbies welcome and encouraged!

Monthly Presentation Night for PDXNode

Pushing out our first Thursday of the month meeting for everyone to enjoy the holiday.

Ben Acker(@nvcexploder) will share a bit of his NodeConf 2013 experience. Adam Ulvi(@s5fs) will be explaining the How and Why of IRC. YOU should be on it! Chris Dickinson(@chrisdickinson) will be sharing min-streams and simple-streams.

It will be a nice variety of topics and level of talks. If anyone is interested, we could also take discussions to post-talk drinks nearby. Maybe even hack a little.

Newbies welcome and encouraged!

Quarterly meetup of DITA XML users in the Greater Portland area. Free beer and food, geeky chitchat, discussion of DITA best practices and travails. Newbies to experts welcome. Please join us!

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML data model for authoring and, with the DITA Open Toolkit, publishing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture

A common dilemma among organizations today is the need to alter corporate strategy to compete in an ever-changing world. With that, a major challenge facing CEOs and others in the C-Suite, is how to encourage employees to embrace the new strategy and change their everyday behavior as a result.

In this panel-led discussion, we will explore how executive sponsorship, HR leadership and employee messaging combine to create adoption of the new strategy, the need for accountability and ultimately change a company culture.

Topic Points:

· How to align the strategy with the employee base to ensure it becomes rooted in the DNA of the culture.

· How to develop and execute initiatives to build alignment with the corporate strategy.

· What are the critical elements of an effective communication plan that delivers and regularly reinforces the key components of the strategy to all levels in the organization.

· What are the effective accountability methods for ensuring that employees at every level are operating in alignment with the strategy.

Panelists include:

· John Major – Founder and Managing Partner, Summit Core Strategies

· Ellen Raim – VP of HR, Cascade Microtech

· Ania Osinska-Bulloff – Employment Brand Specialist, Tripwire

This will be a highly interactive event allowing plenty of time for the audience to ask questions of the panelists. Feedback and personal insight are highly encouraged.

Event Details: When: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Time: 7:30 - 9:30 AM (7:30 - light breakfast and networking, 7:45 panel and Q&A) Where: Jive Software, 915 SW Stark St #400, Portland, OR 97205 Cost: $25 Members, $45 Nonmembers Register: TAO at 503-228-5452

Sponsored by: Radford

If you test web or web service based applications you should have JMeter in your test automation tool box!

JMeter is advertised as a load and performance testing tool, but it can do soooo much more! Exploratory Testing, Test Data Creation, Web Service testing, functional testing, etc....

Join us and learn the many ways people are using JMeter today.

Michael Fadhl of Catalyst IT Services will be providing an overview of JMeter and how to perform a functional test.

We will also have four other engineers that will tell you their favorite or not so favorite thing about JMeter as well as make up a panel to answer any and all questions!

Randy Pellegrini - Health Sparq
James Eisenhauer - hubbub health
Mark Ross - ARRIS
Paul Grandjean - Nike

Quarterly meetup of DITA XML users in the Greater Portland area. Free beer and food, geeky chitchat, discussion of DITA best practices and travails.

This quarter we'll focus on experiences with DITA and mobile documentation. Please come share your stories and plans. Email [email protected] for more information.

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML data model for authoring and, with the DITA Open Toolkit, publishing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture

Quarterly meeting of folks using or interested in using DITA to write technical documentation (and maybe other interesting things).

We are excited to welcome Josh Johnson, DITA tools engineer at NetApp, to our next meeting. He'll be showing us how to troubleshoot PDF output in Ant builds for DITA. Bring your questions!

This year's "State of the Union" event will be held on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at the Jive offices in Portland, Oregon. It lines up with OSCON, the premier conference for open source technologies. We'll have discounted passes for the conference, so be sure to check out the OSCON site for all the detailed information about that event. If you just want to grab some swag, we'll also have "Expo Only" tickets as well.

While past State of the Union events have been structured as a "mini conference", this year we've decided to take a different tact. The Foundation's primary goals are to enable our community in developing open standards and technology that advance the social Web and foster a vibrant, open ecosystem of social platforms and applications. This year's event will be a series of working sessions where we will focus on specific topics that, as a community, we need to address in the upcoming year. Each session will be moderated to keep us on track. The moderator will produce an "action plan" that we'll use to track our progress and measure our results.

Changing an industry is never easy and, as always, there's plenty of work to do! Please come, roll up your sleeves, and join us for a great day of advancing the social Web.

So far, we have been a small group of local DITA users with intermediate to advanced experience. We hope you’ll join us!

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Talks for this meeting will be posted on our mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Talks for this meeting will be posted on our mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Talks for this meeting will be posted on our mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

This meetup will be at Jive Software, who will also be providing pizza and beer. Thank you Jive!

Presentations so far: Ed Borasky: Data Journalism with eInk Kindle Dino Citraro: Recent work at Periscopic Ryan Miller: data viz work done with d3 Justin Donaldson: Data Visualization for Machine Learning

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Talks for this meeting will be posted on our mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

Share your practical and theoretical experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with others keen to apply their skills.

This is our first meeting, there is talk of pizza and/or beer. We are still feeling things out and figuring out what sort of meeting format (and interest level) we have.

This is open to all skill levels in AI, some of us only started looking into AI a few months ago, others have been doing it for years. Come and learn with us!

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

This event marks three years of JavaScript Admirers' meetings. There will be celebrations and cake!

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

So far, we have been a small group of local DITA users with intermediate to advanced experience. We hope you’ll join us!

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

We have two talks scheduled for this meeting:

• SocketStream, a phenomenally fast real-time web framework for Node.js, presented by Eric Redmond
• ClojureScript, the Clojure to JS compiler, presented by Kevin Lynagh

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

Meet up with other area DITA XML users and enthusiasts, drink beer, and share ideas.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

At this meeting Jerry Sievert will talk about Bricks.js, the Node.js web framework that he created. Jerry was not completely satisfied with existing frameworks, like Express. So he set out to make a new framework that is powerful, modular, and fast.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

The agenda for this meeting is still open. Talks will be posted on the mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

The agenda for this meeting is still open. Talks will be posted on the mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

The agenda for this meeting is still open. Talks will be posted on the mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

The agenda for this meeting is still open. Talks will be posted on the mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

The agenda for this meeting:

• Game Programming with Crafty.js
• Topics in Cryptography: The state of random numbers in the browser

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

The agenda for this meeting is still open. Talks will be posted on the mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

The agenda for this meeting is still open. Talks will be posted on the mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The April Meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

Topics will be announced on the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs. If you would like to give a presentation, or have a suggestion for a topic, please send a message to [email protected].

This will be the last meeting before our end-of-the-year hiatus. Regular meetings will resume in January.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

This month Max Ogden will be on hand to talk about Couchappspora < http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora >, the social communication revolution that he has started. Couchappspora is inspired by Diaspora < http://www.joindiaspora.com/ > but is built as a couchapp using CouchDB < http://couchdb.apache.org/ >.

In addition, Jesse Hallett will present an end-to-end tutorial on how to set up JSTestDriver < http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver/ > to automate the process of running QUnit tests < http://docs.jquery.com/Qunit > using QUnitTestRunnerPlugin < http://github.com/jivesoftware/QUnitTestRunnerPlugin >. We have had talks on testing before, including a great talk from Duncan Beevers on simulating time with Bobble < http://github.com/duncanbeevers/bobble >. In this talk Jesse will focus on automation and asynchronous tests, including more discussion on when simulated time or asynchronicity is the better choice and when to mix and match.

There will be pizza provided by Jive Software.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

Come join fellow Scala hackers and enthusiasts. The guest speaker for this meeting will be Cooper Francis. He's going to cover some of the tricky changes that came in Scala 2.8 (particularly looking at arrays, manifests and implicits) and then do a bit of an exposition of implicits in general and how they can be used to create type classes. This should be a fun talk and I don't doubt we'll all learn something. If any of you have already delved into these changes, please come share your experiences and if you haven't, well... no better time than Thursday night to learn about them!

Once again, our meeting will be at Jive Software (courtesy of Jesse Hallett) and will be starting at 7PM.

The monthly Meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

Topics will be announced on the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs. If you would like to give a presentation, or have a suggestion for a topic, please send a message to [email protected].

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

Come join fellow Scala hackers and enthusiasts. The guest speaker this time will be Peat Bakke, who will be speaking about some of his experiences building a service with Scala. Or in his words:

Scala, Circumflex, and MongoDB

Or, why writing everything from scratch is a great way to learn a language, but a terrible way to be productive.

This is about an ongoing Scala project -- a part of the Capacity product planning and resource management system. We'll be looking at a few parts of the system, a homebrew ORM for MongoDB, and the guts behind the scenes that handles the calculations, and the Circumflex-based JSON web service.

The goal of building these from scratch was to learn, and it continues to be an experiment, so I'm looking forward to everyone's feedback on how to make it better!

The monthly Meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

Topics will be announced on the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs. If you would like to give a presentation, or have a suggestion for a topic, please send a message to [email protected].

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The monthly Meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

Topics will be announced on the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs. If you would like to give a presentation, or have a suggestion for a topic, please send a message to [email protected].

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

Come join us for another gathering of PDXScala, graciously hosted by Jive Software. We'll be meeting at 7PM, June 17th, and Steven Osborn will be talking about his experiences developing for Android using Scala.

Interested in Android Mobile OS development, but want to be able to program in Scala? Well you can have your cake and eat it too. Steven will give a high level overview of the Android development platform along with his experiences using SBT along the SBT Android plugin to rapidly develop Android applications. We'll cover everything from setting up your project, running your hello world application, and testing.

Steven is the CTO of Urban Airship, a local mobile messaging and content deliver company providing easy to use, cross-platform web services for iPhone, Blackberry and Android. With nearly a decade of experience in the industry he has participated in all stages of a software company from startup to acquisition. Steven enjoys participating in open source development and has contributed significant amounts of code to projects, including Android OpenIntents and IDiB (Identity In The Browser). Steven is also an accomplished Guitar Hero rockstar and believes strongly that ideas are worthless and execution is everything.

If you have other topics you'd like to discuss or just want to come hear how others are using Scala, please come join us. There is always plenty of opportunity for open discussions and mini-presentations.

The monthly Meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

Topics will be announced on the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs. If you would like to give a presentation, or have a suggestion for a topic, please send a message to [email protected].

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

It's that time again! It seems to sneak up on me and if I'm not careful, I'll forget to send these notices out entirely. But fate intervened and I was reminded about it just now, so... without further ado... I'm happy to say we have what looks to be a very interesting talk this month being given by Stephen Judkins. Here's the description in his own words:

GOTO Considered Awesome: Delimited Continuations in Scala

Scala 2.8 adds support for delimited continuations, a powerful control-flow abstraction. First, I'll show how the the impressive power offered by continuations can be used for good or evil. I will demonstrate how they can be used to implement GOTO in Scala, then I'll show how a simple, synchronous Scala program can be transformed into a distributed, asynchronous web application that could support millions of concurrent users.

I'll explain what a continuation actually is, and how Scala's are "delimited". I'll step though the code transformations the Scala compiler performs in order to support continuations. I'll show the limitations of Scala's continuation support and how it could be improved. Finally, I'll explain how continuations are a fundamental abstraction upon which many other things can be built.

If you have other topics you'd like to discuss or just want to come hear how others are using Scala, please come join us. There is always plenty of opportunity for open discussions and mini-presentations.

The monthly Meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

Topics will be announced on the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs. If you would like to give a presentation, or have a suggestion for a topic, please send a message to [email protected].

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

Come join other Scala enthusiasts at our new location graciously hosted by Jive Software. Anything Scala related is open for discussion. We'll have Jesse Hallett discussing how he put together a lambda calculus to learn about Scala's parsing libraries. Leif Warner will also be showing an application he's been developing which uses the Step web framework (a workalike of the the Sinatra framework in Ruby). This app uses Simple Build Tool, Scardf, Jena, TDB, RDF/OWL, graphs and federated queries and is intended to provide an "open source community family tree" of the local Portland-area music scene.

If you have a project or some code you'd like to share (for review or just to look at how you solved an interesting problem) please bring it along. Pizza will be provided by Jive.

http://pdxscala.org/next-pdxscala-meeting-thusday-415-7pm-at-jive

The March Meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

The agenda for this meeting is still open. Talks will be posted on the mailing list.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The February Meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We discuss topics ranging from client- and server-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

"Web Development in the Cloud" - The availability of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions and a new breed of languages makes web development in the cloud a viable option for any project.

At this meeting, Mike Leach will demonstrate use of the Force.com platform using Eclipse, Apex, AJAX, and JQuery to develop an application that is developed and managed in the cloud.

We are also likely to have more talks on node.js.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The topics for this meeting are:

• node.js - evented I/O for JavaScript on the server
• Google Closure Tools - everything you need to build a Google-class web app
• Testing asynchronous code with Screw.Unit and Blue Ridge

Bring a laptop if you have one. This will be an activity night.

There will be pizza, kindly provided by Jive Software. Plus we will have essentials on hand for celebrating the JavaScript Admirers' first birthday.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

Join Refresh Portland for our last session of 2009 on mobile user experience design! This time, we have Nick Finck, Principal and Director of User Experience at Blue Flavor, coming from Seattle.

This presentation will look at how the mobile context has evolved over the years and where it is headed. We’ll explore the differences between the web and the mobile web, why these differences are important, what the key user experience principals are for the mobile web …oh yeah, and there will be plenty of examples for you to sink your teeth into. Nick will give you the information you need to design an optimal user experience for the mobile web as well as what decisions you will need to make along the way.

See you then!

Online Video: everybody’s doing it these days, but are they doing it right? Probably not. Creating high quality video content for the web is not quite as simple as whipping out your Flip HD, then uploading to YouTube.

That said, it’s a lot easier than most people know (and doesn’t require a two-hour uploading annoyance). We should all be putting more videos online, after all it’s the fastest growing and most popular communication vehicle on the web, but there are better ways to do it.

This October, learn a few trade secrets and tips from Andy Beach, a seasoned video compressionist, and use faster, easier and more efficient ways to post better looking videos than all your friends.

Andy is the author of Real World Video Compression and oversees all aspects of marking at product management at Elemental Technologies. His vast knowledge of video post-production, compression and interactive design has attracted clients worldwide, including: Microsoft, Major League Baseball, Apple, INC and Adobe Systems, INC.

The October Meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

  Howard Lewis Ship will give a presentation on Cappuccino , a rich JavaScript framework based on Cocoa .  Howard will also be talking on Cappuccino at the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Conference .

  Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

Freelance work is getting harder to find, jobs are more competitive and clients are choosier then ever. So how can you make sure that your clients are happy with your work, you’re happy with your work, and that you’re first in line for the next gig?

  This September, join Benton Barnett as he share his experience from both hiring programmers and designers to working as a contractor himself, on to avoid common business mistakes, increase your perceived value, keep your clients happy—and charge them more for the privilege.

  Refresh Portland is held every 4th Thursday of the month, and is a part of the Refreshing Cities movement.

This will be our long awaited server side JavaScript shootout.

• Dietrich Ayala will present Joyent's Smart Platform http://www.joyent.com/products/joyent-smart-platform/

• Jesse Hallett will present Helma NG http://dev.helma.org/wiki/Helma+NG/

Who will win? You decide!

It is also likely that there will be pizza.

The doors and elevators will be locked so we will have people on duty to let arrivals in. If you have any trouble getting in please send a tweet mentioning @pdxjs (not a direct message), or call or send a text message to 503-928-6714.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

The August Meeting of Portland's JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks and features, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

  Topics will be announced on the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs. If you would like to give a presentation, or have a suggestion for a topic, please send a message to [email protected].

  Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

What’s SASS?

  SASS is a CSS-preprocessor that automatically implement common CSS idioms and keep you from repeating yourself.

  In other words, SASS is a way to implement grids, sprites and browser-specific tweaks in a fraction of the time it normally takes with CSS.

  This month, join us as we explore SASS with Thomas Reynolds! Thomas is an experienced front-end web developer who’s into Ruby, jQuery, HTML5, & web standards.

  Refresh Portland is held every 4th Thursday of the month, and is a part of the Refreshing Cities movement.

The meeting will be at Jive Software, 915 SW Stark St., Suite 400.

The July Meeting of Portland's JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We will discuss topics ranging from client-side web frameworks and features, to functional and prototypal programming theory.

  Topics will be announced on the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs. If you would like to give a presentation, or have a suggestion for a topic, please send a message to [email protected].

  Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

Pacific Real Estate Partners will be hosting the July installment of Portland Lunch 2.0 on July 15.

  The lunch will be held at Jive Software , one of their clients.Thanks to Kristin Hammond (@ FzMcFadden ) and Mark Friel of Pacific Real Estate Partners for connecting all the dots. 

  Lunch 2.0 is a Valley phenomenon that you can read about at lunch20.com , and we're putting a PDX stamp on it.

  You can follow all things Portland Lunch 2.0 an the Silicon Florist .

  Are you vegan or vegetarian? Please leave a comment so we can plan food accordingly. Thanks.

Reading is an inherently social experience: what we read and how we read it is shaped by who we know and the broader communities we belong to. With that in mind, Cathy Marshall from Microsoft Research will take a fresh look at the future of eBooks and how we get there from here. In particular, she will share some findings from a body of studies of reading-related activities (such as annotation and clipping) and will draw on her experiences with several generations of eBook products, including Microsoft Reader, ePeriodicals (a reader for magazines like The New Yorker and Esquire), and the Times News Reader (an RSS-based reader for The New York Times).

Registration begins 6:30 pm. Program followed by questions from 7 - 9 pm. CHIFOO members get in free. Non-members pay $5 to attend the meeting.

Come see the great stuff your fellow Portlanders have been working on. There will be several ten minute demos of new products and side projects.

  Confirmed lineup:
  * BrowserMob (Patrick Lightbody)
  * MobSpot (Benjamin Jacobsen)
  * Total Event Manager (Mike Shkolnik)
  * Yak Theater (Matt Garland)
  * iAte (George DeCarlo)
  * SMART@znmeb (Ed Borasky)

  Find out more about showing off *your* project at a future Demolicious:
  http://www.pdxwi.com/demolicious

Blogs, wikis, social networks and other web2.0 tools are being used increasingly to share information and connect with others, in the healthcare industry.

  While this is significant for an industry that has not taken advantage of digitization until now, how does the new technology work with the user needs? 

  Join Sheetal Dube, a Senior User Experience Consultant at Evantage Consulting, to talk about designing healtcare products, applications and experiences that could benefit us all.

  Refresh Portland is held every 4th Thursday of the month, and is a part of the Refreshing Cities movement.

Join us for a special installment of Refresh Portland May with Jared Spool! We’re going to move the meeting a week back to May 21.

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  Experience design is no longer a nice-to-have luxury of a few organizations with tons of money and exceptional visionary management. It’s become commonplace for organizations that build products and web sites. Experience Design is a centerpiece of boardroom discussions and quickly becoming a key performance indicator for many businesses.

  However, you can’t just hire a couple of “experience designers” and tell them, “Go do that voodoo that you do so well.” Today’s business environment forces us to build multi-disciplinary teams, compiling a diverse group of skills and experiences to handle the many facets of the technical, business, and user requirements.

  In his usual entertaining and insightful manner, Jared will talk about what it takes to build a design team that meets today’s needs.

  He’ll demonstrate how successful Experience Design:
  * Must integrate the needs of the users with the requirements of the business
  * Is learned, but not available through introspection
  * Must be invisible to succeed
  * Is cultural
  * Is multi-discplinary
  * Thrives best in an “educate and administrate” environment

  You’ll see examples of designs from Apple’s iPod, Netflix, the Mayo Clinic, and Southwest Airlines, to name a few.

Refresh Portland is a monthly meetup on design, front-end development, usability and web standards. It’s part of the Refreshing Cities Movement, and held every 4th Thursday of the month.

  Our April session will feature Buck Wilson, a designer and developer at Jive Software. He’ll talk about the history of JavaScript on the web, why jQuery has seen so much success, and how jQuery speaks the language of designers.

  Interested in speaking at Refresh Portland? We’re looking for your ideas. Email [email protected]

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1908530/ ] Come see the great stuff your fellow Portlanders have been working on. Several ten minute demos of new products and side projects. Confirmed lineup: * I Need to Read This! (Benjamin Stover) * MioWorks (David Abramowski) * Black Tonic (Jason Glaspey) * Avatari (Sam Grover) * You? Find out more about showing off your project here: http://www.pdxwi.com/demolicious

Refresh Portland is a monthly meetup, held every 4th Thursday, on design, front-end development, usability and web standards. It’s part of the Refreshing Cities Movement.

Our February session will feature Hajime Kobayashi, a front-end engineer at LUNARR, Inc., who will talk about Japan’s unique ways of interacting with the web, and designing interfaces and features based on people’s behavior and cultures.

Welcome to Refresh Portland 2009, a monthly meetup (held every 4th Thursday) on design, front-end development, usability and web standards.

Join Carlos Rodriguez, a Rails developer at Planet Argon, on our kickoff session, as he introduces you through Git, a distribution source control program. If you’re looking for a way to incorporate the testing of new features or designs in your workflow, this may be the solution.

Refresh Portland is part of the Refreshing Cities Movement.

Refresh Portland is a monthly talk (held every 2nd Wednesday) about design, front-end development, usability and web standards.

We’re in the process of finalizing the speaker. Please watch this space and our twitter account (http://twitter.com/refreshportland) for future developments.

Refresh Portland is part of the Refreshing Cities Movement.

Refresh Portland is a monthly talk (held every 2nd Wednesday) about design, front-end development, usability and web standards.

We’re in the process of choosing the speakers, so please watch this space and our twitter account (http://twitter.com/refreshportland) for future developments.

Refresh Portland is part of the Refreshing Cities Movement.

Refresh Portland is a monthly talk (held every 2nd Wednesday) about design, front-end development, usability and web standards.

Our first session will feature Tyler Sticka, an award-winning designer, artist, speaker and educator specializing in identity-driven new media.

Our topic: “Through the Looking-Glass: How the web is and ought to be.” This presentation will establish the current state of the web, it’s successes and limitations, and a bright future rooted in ever-expanding openness and community

Refresh Portland is part of the Refreshing Cities Movement.

iPhoneDevCamp Portland is a satellite event to iPhoneDevCamp 2 in San Francisco. This is an opportunity to get together with other iPhone developers and develop apps for the web and natively using the iPhone SDK. There will be streaming content from S.F. as well as a chance to submit apps for the hackathon.