1. March 25th, 2014 #austinjug Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

2. Welcome Austin Java Users Group 12 Years Strong!

3. Last Decade of Sponsors

4. Announcements Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2754 members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug (1693 members on the mailing list)

5. Membership Growth

6. What’s new in the Java world? Java 8 Released! http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/featureshttp://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/features Lambda Expressions and virtual extension methods Default methods in interfaces Compact profiles Nashorn Javascript engine Launch JavaFX applications Annotations on Java types Parallel array sorting Date and Time API based on JodaTime Lots of cryptographic enhancements Removed permanent generation from Hotspot JVM Small VM (3 MB) Access to parameter names via Reflection NetBeans 8 with Java 8 support released Profiles, lambdas and streams Improved integration with JavaFX scene builder Improved HTML5, Maven, Javascript, Java EE, C/C++, PHP support

7. Sponsorship Questions Topic Suggestions Speaker Volunteers? Contact Rob Ratcliff rob@futuretek.com

8. Thanks Thanks to Craig Hunt for bringing the projector every month! Thanks to Mabel Willy for providing the nametags & friendly greetings

9. After Meeting Networking BJ'S Restaurant & Brewery

10. Networking and Fun New Place! BJs

11. Introduction to Cassandra by Tyler Hobbs

12. Introducing to Cassandra Query Language (CQL) By Yuki Morishita