Past Meetings

September 16, 2008

The Seaside Heresy - Or, Will GLASS Be Your Next Web Framework?
St. Thomas
Speaker: James Foster
Video and Slides: http://programminggems.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/video/

Auguest 19, 2008

Agile 2008 Retrospective
St. Thomas
Speaker: Agile 2008 Attendees

June 26, 2008

Actors Make Better Observers
St. Thomas
Speaker: Dale Schumacher

May 20, 2008

The Busy Developer's Guide to Scala
St. Thomas
Speaker: Ted Neward

April 15, 2008

Business Agility Principles and Architecture: Lessons from the Punch Card era
St. Thomas
Speaker: Tom Evans

January 15, 2008

Why Middle Management Matters: Managers' Role in Agile Adoption
St. Thomas
Speaker: Esther Derby
Slides: MgrsRoleInAgileChange.pdf

November 15, 2007

The Language Debate: Panel Discussion on Dynamic and Static Type Systems in Programming Languages
St. Thomas
Panel: Charles Nutter, Robert Fischer, and Paul Cantrell

October 11, 2007

Agile 2007 Retrospective
St. Thomas
Panel: Esther Derby, Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck, Pam Rostal

September 19, 2007

Informal Happy Hour
Riverside Cafe

June 19, 2007

Robert Fischer on Business Communication
presented by Robert Fischer

November 14, 2006

Handling Change in an Agile Environment
presented by Ken Schwaber

October 17, 2006

Open Space Event

September 19, 2006

2006 / 2007 Kickoff

June 20, 2006

Making a career move from a Technical role to a Functional role (or vice versa)
presented by Jeanine Krier, Eric Markgraf & Karl Lacher

May 16, 2006

BPM: Transforming IT Novelties into Corporate Cohesion
presented by Rick Clark

April 18, 2006

AJAX
presented by Ryan Asleson & Nathaniel T. Schutta

March 21, 2006

The Future of IT Professionals (if they have one)
presented by Dave West

February 21, 2006

Gaining Business Intelligence
presented by Michael Dalton & Karl Lacher

January 17, 2006

Framework for Integrated Test (FIT)
presented by David Hussman

November 15, 2005

Working Effectively with Legacy Code
presented by Michael Feathers

October 18, 2005

Refactoring Your Wetware
presented by Andy Hunt

September 20, 2005

Ruby On Rails
presented by Obie Fernandez

August 16, 2005

Agile 2005 and Agile 2006
presented by Agile 2005 attendees and local Agile 2006 planners

July 19, 2005

Squeak and the Seaside Application Server
presented by Pam Rostal

June 21, 2005

Java Server Faces
presented by Adam Winer and Jacob Hookom

May 17, 2005

Hibernate Architect Gavin King
author of Hibernate in Action

April 19, 2005

Living With Systems in Production: Avoiding Heartbreak in Long-Term Relationships With Your Code
presented by Michael Nygard

March 15, 2005

Software by Numbers
A distinguished lecture by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang

February 15, 2005

Open Source Software Development Tools
presented by Gregg Kloke of The Open Source Technology Alliance

January 18, 2005

Aligning Business Process Architecture and Enterprise Architecture: A Service Oriented Approach
presented by Chris Capadouca

December 14, 2004

Programming Lego MindStorms Robots
presented by Fred Rose

November 16, 2004

Agile Coaches Roundtable
with coaches: Mary Poppendieck, Jon Spence, David Hussman, Jeff Ortman

October 25, 2004

Story Test Driven Development
presented by Gunjan Doshi

October 19, 2004

Open Source Licenses: Risks and Benefits
presented by Ann Williamson

September 21, 2004

Agile Development in .NET
presented by Jason Bock

August 24, 2004

"Usage of Patterns, RUP - J2EE Design, and RUP Implementation (Build)"
presented by Nandan Dasgupta

July 20, 2004

Aspect-Oriented Programming with .NET
presented by Tom Barnaby

June 15, 2004

Actional Web Services Management Platform
presented by Phil McGlauchlin

May 18, 2004

"Ten Things to Know About Computer Security"
presented by Brad Rubin

April 20, 2004

"Ubiquitous Language"
A distinguished lecture by Eric Evans

March 16, 2004

"Software Engineering and Strategies for Autonomous Trading Agent"
presented by Wolfgang Ketter

February 17, 2004

"Software Design in the Twenty-first Century"
A distinguished lecture by Martin Fowler

January 20, 2004

UML 2.0 Review
Presented by Jill Aden
Slides [PPT]

December 15, 2003

Extreme Programming -- Large Scale Experiences at Sabre
Presented by Brad Jensen

November 4, 2003

Scrum Grows Up -- Certification, Scaling, and Extensions
A distinguished lecture by Ken Schwaber

October 21, 2003

Extreme Programming and Scrum: A Local Experience Report From Gearworks
presented by Chris Hiem and David Hemphill
A joint OTUG/AEG meeting

September 9, 2003

Lean Software Development
A distinguished lecture by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck

August 19, 2003

Elections, reflections, networking and looking ahead to the next year.

July 15, 2003

Distributed Software Development Over the Years
presented by Sharon Lawyer, from Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

June 17, 2003

Refactoring for Project Success
presented by Jill Aden, from Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

May 20, 2003

Eclipse - more than a Java IDE!
presented by John Wiegand, Sr. Technical Staff Member, IBM

April 22, 2003

Behaviorally Anchored Self-Assessment
presented by Clyde Cutting and Gary Jedynak

March 18, 2003

"Agile Software Development with SCRUM with Application to Healthcare Mobile Platform Development"
A distinguished lecture by Jeff Sutherland, inventor of the SCRUM software development process.

February 18, 2003

"Success Factors for J2EE Projects"
Presented by Steve Demuth, CTO of Artemis Alliance

January 21, 2003

OOPSLA 2002 Impressions panel

December, 2002

(No meeting this month)

November 19, 2002

"Skills for the Agile Designer"
A distinguished lecture by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

October 15, 2002

"Managing Agile Projects"
with Mike Kennon

September 17, 2002

"Agility and the Database"
A distinguished lecture by by Peter Schuh

August 20, 2002

Elections and Reflections

July 16, 2002

A Discussion of Two Different Approaches to Delivering Value Through Software

June 18, 2002

J2EE Design Patterns
A joint OTUG and TCPG meeting
Lead by Steve Banks and Dave Reines

May 21, 2002

A Discussion of .NET
Lead by Andrew Troelsen

April 16, 2002

Object-Oriented Architecture
Presented by Kirk Knoernschild

March 19, 2002

"Let's connect the dots....." discussion
Based upon a presentation by Shveta Mehtani

February 19, 2002

"Challenges in Implementing Object-oriented Process/Methodology"
Presented by Saif Islam
    and
"Let's connect the dots....."
Presented by Shveta Mehtani

January 15, 2002

"The Emperor Has No Clothes - Or Does He??"
    - Object Technology Reality Check -
    - A Golfishbowl Panel Discussion of OOP Criticism -
Moderated by Gary Berosik and Stephen Thomson

December 18, 2001

LEGO® Robotics Invention System Creations
with Bonnie Bennett and her former students

November 20, 2001

OOPSLA Review
and
An Introduction to the Python-based Zope Web Application Development Environment
Presented by Gary Berosik

October 11, 2001

* Distinguished Lecture Series *
"What Your Mother Never Told You about Object-Oriented Programming"
with Kristen Nygaard, inventor of the first object-oriented programming language

September 18, 2001

* Distinguished Lecture Series *
A New Approach to Process Improvement Using Patterns
with Linda Rising, author of The Patterns Handbook and The Patterns Almanac 2000

August 21, 2001

Election of Officers
and
End-Users Can Be Object Geeks Too!
The Story of FavaBeans, an Open Source Object-Oriented User Interface (OOUI) Framework for Java
with Ihab Awad

July 17, 2001

* Distinguished Lecture Series *
People, Poetry, and Culture: Reinventing Software Development
[PowerPoint presentation]
with David West, Professor of Management Information Systems (New Mexico Highland University)

June 19, 2001

* Distinguished Lecture Series *
Making Machines Fit for Human Consumption
with Jef Raskin, System Design Consultant, Author of The Humane Interface, Inventor of Apple Macintosh and the Canon Cat Computers

May 15, 2001

A Framework for Contracting in a Multi-Agent Environment [PDF document]
with Maria Gini

April 17, 2001

Transforming a Legacy Enterprise to Object Technology [PowerPoint presentation]
with Gary Howorka and James Pichler of Digital River

March 20, 2001

Using Software Objects to create Lion Kings, control 101 Dalmatians, fight Nightmares, and give Sports Simulations intelligence
with Ken Patterson, President and Jeff Hanson, Director Software Development (Digital Content Inc. / Window Painters, Ltd.)

February 20, 2001

Wireless Internet Development Experience [Powerpoint presentation]
with Curt Bergmann, Director of Professional Services (Coherent Solutions, Inc.)

January 16, 2001

Communication in an Appliance World: Components and Messaging [Powerpoint presentation]
with Perry Hoekstra, E-Commerce Architect (Talent Software Services)

December 19, 2000

No Meeting

November 21, 2000

JLog: A Java Logging Framework [PowerPoint slides]
Todd Lauinger talks about logging your way to faster defect detection and removal
OOPSLA in Review Panel Discussion

October 17, 2000

OTUG @ OOPSLA
An OTUG Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at OOPSLA, the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications.

September 19, 2000

Software Patents
Michael G. Smith discusses the basics of software patents

August 22, 2000

* Special presentation *
Lightweight Methodologies : Harnessing Innovation and Speed for e-Business Projects
with Jim Highsmith

August 15, 2000

Annual General meeting
Appointment of officers
SIG meetings

July 18, 2000

No formal OTUG meeting.
Twin Cities Pattern Group meeting

June 20, 2000

Java in Small Things
An introduction ot K virtual machine (KVM) and Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) by James White, Catapult Technologies

May 16, 2000

XML and XP
ATI presentation on XML & XP

April 18, 2000

BEA
BEA's Alexander Barry presented a demo of the Weblogic Commerce Server and talked about related technologies.

March 21, 2000

The Design Maintenance System, Scale and Application to Refactoring
The Design Maintenance System with Dr. Ira Baxter from Semantic Designs, Inc.

February 15, 2000

XML Framework
XML framework with Steve Demuth of Artemis Alliance

January 18, 2000

* Distinguished Lecturer Series *
OPEN (Object-oriented Process, Environment and Notation)
with Brian Henderson-Sellers

November 16, 1999

* Distinguished Lecturer Series *
Allen Wirfs-Brock and Ron Jeffries

A list of meetings from OTUG's founding in 1991 through 1999 is not currently available.

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