{"id":283,"date":"2010-08-08T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denverjug.wordpress.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2010-12-31T00:03:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T06:03:19","slug":"djug-811-mtg-android-sw-dev-by-bryan-noll-itext-by-greg-holling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"DJUG 8\/11 Mtg; Android S\/W Dev by Bryan Noll; iText by Greg Holling at Tivoli 320 A\/B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are back at the Tivoli in 320 A\/B for the August Meeting.<\/p>\n<div><strong>Schedule:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>5:30 &#8211; 6:00 p.m. Food, and Networking.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">6:00 &#8211; 7:00 p.m. Basic Concepts\/First Session<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">7:00 &#8211; 7:15 p.m. Announcements<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">7:15 &#8211; 8:45 p.m. Main\/Featured Presentation<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">8:45 p.m. Door prizes<\/div>\n<div><strong>Featured Presentation:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Software Development on the Android Platform&#8221; &#8211; Bryan Noll<br \/>\nHere is the slide deck from Bryan&#8217;s presentation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverjug.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tour_of_android.pdf\">Tour of Android<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Bryan will be drawing on the experience he recently<br \/>\ngained by releasing an app to the Android Market.<br \/>\nHe will share with you what he learned about the<br \/>\nAPIs he had to use. This will include but may not<br \/>\nbe limited to the following Android APIs:<br \/>\nContacts, Sms, Maps and Location. Some details<br \/>\nabout the process of getting an app into the<br \/>\nAndroid Market and making it available for<br \/>\npurchasing will also be covered.<br \/>\nHopefully he&#8217;ll be able to share a few things<br \/>\nthat aren&#8217;t readily available in books and<br \/>\nquick web searches\u2026 the kind of things that<br \/>\nseem to only expose themselves once you&#8217;ve<br \/>\ndug in, done what the documentation says you<br \/>\nshould do, then find out you&#8217;ve got to do<br \/>\nsomething a little bit differently in order<br \/>\nto get the stuff working.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Bryan Noll has been developing software for<br \/>\nnearly a decade now. His technical<br \/>\nexperience is in Java, JavaScript,<br \/>\nGrails, Rails and the standard stack<br \/>\nof web tools. He&#8217;s done both the<br \/>\nserver side and client side thing.<\/p>\n<p>His non-technical approach is to<br \/>\nsimply do stuff well &#8211; thoroughly<br \/>\nand efficiently &#8211; with an<br \/>\nentrepreneurial spirit, communicating<br \/>\nclearly the entire time.<\/p>\n<p>Lately he&#8217;s enjoyed getting into the<br \/>\nmobile space by dorking around with<br \/>\nAndroid development. For further<br \/>\nprofessional info, feel free to see<br \/>\nhis LinkedIn profile:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Bryan Noll's LinkedIn Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bryannoll\"> http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bryannoll<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.1944px;\"><strong>First Presentation:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;iText&#8221; &#8211; Greg Holling<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.1944px;\">Here&#8217;s the slide deck: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverjug.org.evohst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/itext.ppt\">August 2010 iText Presentation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I had to put the code on our Yahoo site due to limitations within WordPress. \u00a0<a title=\"iText Code Sample\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/djug\/files\/Presentations\/iText-Code.zip\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the link: <a style=\"color: #114170;\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/djug\/files\/Presentations\/iText-Code.zip\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/djug\/files\/Presentations\/iText-Code.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The iText library (<a title=\"iText\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itextpdf.com\">http:\/\/www.itextpdf.com<\/a>) can be<br \/>\nused to generate PDF files on the fly.<br \/>\nThe library has multiple levels of<br \/>\nabstraction, some of which can be confusing,<br \/>\nand the documentation is not always adequate<br \/>\nor complete.<\/p>\n<p>Greg will show an iText example from a<br \/>\nrecent servlet\/JSP-based project, and will\u00a0discuss lessons learned and potential gotchas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Greg Holling is a Denver-based independent<br \/>\nsoftware consultant, mentor, and trainer.<br \/>\nHe has been developing software with Java<br \/>\nsince it was in beta, and has mentored and<br \/>\ntrained Java developers at Fortune 500 companies<br \/>\nlocally and nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are back at the Tivoli in 320 A\/B for the August Meeting. Schedule: 5:30 &#8211; 6:00 p.m. Food, and Networking. 6:00 &#8211; 7:00 p.m. Basic Concepts\/First Session 7:00 &#8211; 7:15 p.m. Announcements 7:15 &#8211; 8:45 p.m. Main\/Featured Presentation 8:45 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/?p=283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}