Two presentations for the price of one! Note: the price is zero.

Presentation 1: Shouldyou.be (https://shouldyou.be/)

A mashup for neurotic residents of Omaha, Nebraska, as seen through twitter and a bunch of geographic APIs and regular expressions.

Live demo at https://shouldyou.be (https://shouldyou.be/), and source on github (https://github.com/tmcoma/shouldyou.be)

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Demonstrates usage of the following APIs, platforms, etc:

Java 1.7, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Endpoints, Google Cloud Datastore (w/Objectify), Google Maps Javascript API, Google Maps Geocoding API, Twitter Streaming API, Twitter UI Widget Thingie, OAuth2

And, somewhat less interestingly:

JUnit, Maven, Regular expressions that will make you want to self-immolate, Google Service API Keys, Nifty Javascript animations, Web Storage

Speaker:

Tom McLaughlin (https://github.com/tmcoma) is giving his first ever OJUG talk. It’ll rock!

Presentation 2: Kotlin (https://kotlinlang.org/) - Why your next language will be Kotlin!

Kotlin is not just YALFTJVM (yet another language for the JVM). There’s good reason that Kotlin is the next JVM language that you will learn and use. Fan of Groovy, or Scala, or into writing build scripts, or writing Android code? Learn from this talk the in’s & out’s, pros and cons, and reasons why Kotlin is worth looking into.

Speaker:

Jeff Sheets (https://twitter.com/sheetsj) is very cool. His talks are always wonderful.

Location:Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, 1919 Aksarben Dr, Omaha, NE 68180

Agenda:

5:30 Networking 6:00 Food – Courtesy of TekSystems 6:30 Presentation 8-ish Drinks and more at DJ’s Dugout (Aksarben)

Please RSVP at MeetUp.com Also, in the FREE STUFF department, JetBrains has signed up to be an additional sponsor, and is giving us 1 free IntelliJ IDEA licenses to raffle away EVERY MONTH! So stick around for the drawing at the end of the meeting before we head to DJ’s!

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