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		Van Riper van_riper@dev.java.net Michael Van Riper has a Bachelors in Computer Science from MIT. Van has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. He was a core member of the engineering team at Adobe that built the award winning Adobe PageMill web authoring program. Since 1999, he has focused on developing web applications in Java. He is Chief Web Technologist at Krillion in Mountain View, California. He is also the founder and co-leader of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG and the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group. Articles j1-2k8-mtT14: Java User Groups International Map Van Riper describes how the JUG Map was created. He also demonstrates how individual JUGs can customize the JUGs Map to embed it in their own JUG pages like one that was set up for Silicon Valley JUGs Weblogs Silicon Valley Code Camp 4.0 ... JUG-USA Happenings at JavaOne 2009 National JUG-USA Summit This is... Tips and Tricks for Starting and Maintaining a Successful User Group At... Spring Fling: CommunityOne West and JavaOne in June For Silicon Valley Java Developers, there is absolutely NO EXCUSE for missing JavaOne this year. Even if you can't swing the registration fee for JavaOne, a FREE CommunityOne West... Benefits of JUG-USA Affiliation The opportunities afforded by affiliating together... JUG-USA: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the JUGs We are officially launching... The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on the JCP December 2008 marks the 10th Birthday of the Java Community Process (JCP)... QCon San Francisco: Free Java Community Event Silicon Valley Code Camp Nov 8-9 Rod Johnson's SV-WEB-JUG Visit: Standing Room Only Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource, gave a free talk to the... Sentilla Labs: A New Java Community Website Sentilla Labs, a recently launched community website, offers developers a step-by-step guided tour through the project development process, allowing... Using the Google Collections Library for Java In addition to the JUG that we run, Kevin Nilson and I also run the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group (SV-GTUG... Call for Speakers: Silicon Valley Code Camp 11/8-9/2008 Community Wonderland After seeing the latest updates on Project Wonderland during JavaOne combined with the great memories of hanging... JavaOne Day Two - Personal Highlights Helping a high school student get a Sun SPOT from Sun for his school computer club has to be number one. The Java Champions BOF was pretty interesting. I wonder how many people know you don't have... JavaOne Day One - Personal Highlights Seeing JavaFX applications running on Android. Attending the JavaFX overview session by Christopher Oliver. Seeing... JavaOne Day Zero AKA CommunityOne This year's CommunityOne was definitely an upgrade over last year. I thought it was pretty good last year too. The price/performance (free) was excellent and the turnout was good. My one gripe as... The Most Amazing Thing Of All ... is I get paid for doing this. I'm not actually paid to run my JUG, but, my company supports my involvement including giving me paid time... Javaâ„¢ User Groups: Think Globally, Act Locally This... Google App Engine: Request Java Runtime I was at the Google Campfire One event on April 7th where Google App Engine was officially launched.... Android Talk by Dick Wall in Silicon Valley on February 6th There is a new user group in Silicon Valley and it is not a JUG. It is a GTUG (Google Technology User Group). The Silicon Valley GTUG meets on the first Wednesday... Java User Groups International Map With the help of several other JUG Leaders, I have put together a world map of Java User Group (JUG) locations. It is setup as a KML map file that can be... CommunityOne 2008: Call For Participation If you missed CommunityOne 2007, it was a great/free one day event on the day just prior to the start of JavaOne 2007 in... Sun Developer Network (SDN): New Home Page This was much more than just a redesign of the SDN home page. The SDN content team joined with the .SUN organization, and Sun's software marketing... Silicon Valley Java Developers Unite! See my earlier blog entry about Silicon Valley Code Camp for the background material. At this point, the... Seam Presentation by Gavin King on October 16th Gavin King will be speaking about Web Beans at the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG meeting on October 16th. Silicon Valley CodeCamp on October 27-28 So, you might be wondering, what is a code camp, and what does it cost? Well, it's completely free and completely staffed by volunteers... 2007 Rich Web Experience: Up Close and Personal There were about 300 people in attendance at this conference. There were about 40 people presenting during this three day event. With the communal meals and an attendee/speaker ratio on the order... 2007 Rich Web Experience on September 6-8 The No Fluff Just Stuff symposium series has announced the 2007 Rich Web Experience coming... BarCampBlock in Palo Alto on August 18-19 BarCampEarth (formerly BarCampWorldwide) is a simultaneous compendium of Barcamps around the world to commemorate the anniversary of the first-... 1 2 next › last »