May 26th, 2015 #AustinJug Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

Welcome Austin Java Users Group 13 Years Strong!

Last Decade of Sponsors

Announcements Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2799 members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug (1753 members on the mailing list)

Membership Growth

What’s New? Java’s 20 th Birthday! 2015 Lone Star Software Symposium – July 10-12, 2015 Oracle stopped free updates to Java SE 7 last month. Java SE 8 Update 45 is out. Lessons Learnt Translating 25k line of C# into Java translating-25k-line-of-c-into-java.html translating-25k-line-of-c-into-java.html Use Java 8 Be careful of unintended behavior – HashMap doesn’t keep insertion order whereas Dictionary did. Got performance improvements by cleaning up persistence architecture compared to the Visual Studio generated code RedHat’s DevNation (Full Stack Developer conference) is June 21-25, 2015 in Boston Upcoming release of Eclipse “Mars” in June will include a Gradle based build system called Buildship.

Sponsorship Questions Topic Suggestions Speaker Volunteers? Contact: Rob Ratcliff

Thanks Thanks to Craig Hunt for bringing the projector for the last few years. Thanks to Mabel Willy for providing the nametags & friendly greetings

After Meeting Networking BJ'S Restaurant & Brewery

Networking and Fun

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