[Australasia-spring-interest] Spring Events and Meetings

[Ben Alex]

Hi everyone

Gung hei fat choi!

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USER GROUP MEETINGS
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A quick reminder of Sydney's meeting, which starts at 6:30 pm tonight at
Cliftons, 190 George Street, Sydney. Refreshments will be provided and
entry is free. You don't need to a member to attend. I'll be presenting
on the Spring Portfolio, which is a great opportunity for those not
already using Spring to receive a "big picture" overview. Experienced
users will hear more about the overall portfolio of projects (I'm yet to
meet anyone who has used them all!) as well as their roadmap. The
presentation is the same as I gave last week at the Singapore JUG, and
is based on Adrian Colyer's keynote from The Spring Experience
conference in Flordia last December. Please RSVP via email to
spring-users at iris.com.au if you're attending so that we can ensure
sufficient seating. Please see http://tinyurl.com/2545uq for further
details.

For Melbourne and Brisbane residents, the next user group meetings are
scheduled for 5 March 2007 and 2 April 2007 respectively.

I'm also visiting Wellington, New Zealand in the week starting 26
February. There's a good chance there will be an informal Spring
get-together that week. I'll email this list with details when finalized.

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REGIONAL TRAINING UPDATE
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* Sydney Core Spring (19 - 22 February): Sorry, completely sold out.

* Sydney Core Hibernate (12 - 14 March): Almost sold out. Only three
spaces remain, and there's still a month to go! This course WILL sell
out, so I urge you to register now if you wish to attend. Please see
http://tinyurl.com/yfw8p3 for details.

* Melbourne Core Spring (19 - 22 March): Please visit
http://tinyurl.com/2zmt3u for details.

* Brisbane Core Spring (16 - 19 April): Please visit
http://tinyurl.com/ysjjt8 for details.

* Singapore Core Hibernate (TBA): We plan on running a Core Hibernate
course in Singapore shortly. Please check http://tinyurl.com/2z89md at
the end of this week for details. Thanks again to the people in
Singapore for a great visit last week, BTW!

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CONGRATULATIONS RENEWTEK
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Warm congratulations to Jerry Shea and the Renewtek team for being the
first Australian IT company to achieve certified Greenhouse Friendly
status. Jerry is well known to Spring users in Melbourne, both through
his work at Renewtek as well as being the co-convener of the Melbourne
Spring user group. You can read more about Renewtek's environmental
initiative at http://tinyurl.com/yw2g7e.

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SUN JAVA DEVELOPER DAYS
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For those of you who missed the well-received October "developer day"
sessions in Auckland, Brisbane and Adelaide, Sun is running them in
Wellington, Canberra and Perth in March. These are free one-day
sessions. Topics include:

* Interoperability using Advanced Web Services and Project Tango
* Java SE 6 and 7
* Rapid GUI Development - on the Desktop and on the Web
* Persistence Techniques for Java SE and EE Applications using EJB
* Java EE 5 and Glassfish - A Plunge into the Aquarium
* Solaris, OpenSolaris and Sun Studio: Changing the Game
* Web 2.0 Applications: using AJAX and Related Frameworks

Agenda at http://tinyurl.com/2wxcga. Space is limited, so register at
http://tinyurl.com/356klh.

Best regards

Ben Alex
Regional Director, Australasia
Interface21 - the company behind Spring
www.interface21.com