Utah Google Technology User Group

Ice Cream Sandwich - February Meeting

2012-02-02T11:43:00.002-07:00

Yummm.... it's about 20 degrees outside but I still could go for an ice cream sandwich, how about you? Well you're in luck because this month at UGTUG were going to be talking about the next version (or for those lucky Galaxy Nexus owners - the current version) of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich (v4.0).

Chad Maughan, a local Android enthusiast and developer, will walk us through the new features of the latest and greatest including a new refined ui, enhanced communication and sharing, more cloud capabilities, NFC support, and more. He will also talk about the general direction of the Android platform and vision for the future.

We will also continue our Android breakout immediately following the presentation, where we will continue our focus on learning and talking about a community project we can all collaborate on.

This month we invite you to come and hang out, bring a friend, learn, grab some pizza and enjoy a nice ice cream sandwich, literally. See you there! Oh and if you wouldn't mind letting us know if you coming :)

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Neumont University - Room 300
10701 River Front Parkway, South Jordan, Utah

UGTUG BootCamp + Startup Weekend

2012-01-11T11:35:00.001-07:00

Are you passionate about technology? Excited about innovation? Do you enjoy collaborating with others? Have you ever wanted to be part of something from the ground up? Well the UGTUG is excited to be a part of Startup Weekend and it's coming to Salt Lake City, Feb 2-4, 2012.

"Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets - primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people - to build applications and develop a commercial case around them."

With the focus of Startup Weekend being about collaborating, developing and delivering something great in 54 hours, there is often not enough time to learn new technologies. So, as part of a pre-Startup Weekend, the UGTUG and Startup Weekend are joining forces to help developers hit the ground running with a technical BootCamp on Saturday, January 28th from 10am-1pm (lunch provided). As part of the BootCamp we are excited to be able to offer a crash course on Android and HTML5.

So we invite those interested in getting a jump start on learning about these technologies to the BootCamp where there will be plenty of opportunities to learn, ask questions and of course do some coding!

So hurry up, seats are limited, register today.

For more information about the Startup Weekend SLC event you can find more details on their website.

HTML 5 - January 2012 Meeting

2012-01-09T13:01:00.000-07:00

The UGTUG is excited to kickoff a brand new year with our meeting this Wednesday, January 11th, 2012. This month we are going to focus on three of the new API's found in HTML5.

First, +Dan Langford is going to dive into the File System API, which allows web applications the ability to interface with a sandboxed section of the user's local filesystem to read and write files and directories. Finally web applications can store and interact with binary data!

Next, +Mike Heath will take us through the raw, yet beautiful simplicity of WebSockets, which extend the ability of client/server communication beyond the typical request/response paradigm allowing both the server and client to initiate communication and send data at any time.

Finally, +Gabriel Dayley will demonstrate that audio in HTML5 isn't just limited to the audio tag. The Web Audio API is a high level API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. Some of the capability goals for the web audio api inculde: mixing, processing and filtering.

With each of these we will have a brief introduction and explore some great code samples and demos, so come prepared to participate and rock in the New Year!

We are also excited to announce a new Android breakout, by popular demand, that we will be starting this month.

We look forward to kicking off a new year with all of our UGTUG friends and hope to make many new ones this year - so feel free to spread the word and bring a friend! Don't forget we will have pizza provided by Google and giveaways as usual, so come eat, innovate, learn, collaborate and win! See you there!

If you are coming please let us know, so we know how much pizza to buy.

We will loosely follow the following schedule:

5:30 - Pizza - provided by Google
6:00 - Welcome
6:15 - HTML 5
7:30 - Android breakout

We will be meeting at our usual location:

Neumont University
Room 300
10701 River Front Pkwy
South Jordan, Utah

Planning for 2012

2011-12-28T16:48:00.000-07:00

2011 was a great year for the Utah GTUG. We learned a lot and grew a lot. That being said, there is definitely room for more growth and refinement. As we make some plans for 2012 we want to take into account the input of all our members. Please take just a moment and enter your thoughts into this form after the jump. To thank you for your feedback we will be selecting a random submission to reward with a $25 Gift Certificate.

Thank you, and happy coding

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App Scripts, Native Mobile, Open Web

2011-11-08T11:21:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 will be the last time the Utah Google
Technology User Group will meet this year. After our November meeting
we will resume our meetings in January 2012.

Come join us as Aaron Frost presents on Google App Scripts. It's gonna
be awesome.

Following Aaron, Gabriel Dayley and Tom Valletta present on Native
Mobile vs. The Open Web. They will explore the features and
capabilities of native platforms and comparing them to what is
available via the mobile browsers. The strengths and weaknesses of
both native and web approaches will be demonstrated through example
applications and code.

Address, map, RSVP and pizza preference after the jump.

6-8:30pm (pizza starts at 5:30pm)
Neumont University
Room 300
10701 River Front Pkwy
South Jordan, Utah
http://bit.ly/neumontmap

So we know how much pizza to bring please RSVP below (or at this link: http://bit.ly/ugtugrsvp)

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September Meeting

2011-09-09T16:21:00.003-06:00

Ever wanted an excuse to play with Lego's? Ever thought you were the next Mario Andretti? Well here's your chance! Come embrace your inner-child and learn how to build an Android application that remote controls a Lego Mindstorm.

Join us next Wednesday, September 14th as we will be learning about AppInventor for Android. We will be using this tool to build an application for android devices that will control the sensors and motors of a Lego Mindstorm. Everyone will get the opportunity to go hands on with the tool and the Mindstorm kits to build a robot and go head to head with others to compete for some great prizes!

This month, we are excited to announce that Lego will be sponsoring our event and has given us some great prizes to give away. You definitely won't want to miss out. We hope to see you there and be sure to invite a friend! As always we will have pizza and drinks, so please RSVP so we know if your coming.

July 2011 Meeting

2011-07-12T19:51:00.000-06:00

Tomorrow is another great Utah GTUG meeting. Be sure to make it for a discussion about Google Closure.

Google Closure Tools help developers build rich web applications with JavaScript. The Tools include a JavaScript optimizer, a comprehensive JS library, a templating system, and a JS style checker.

A recruiter from Google will be joining us to share what its like working at Google and to answer any questions you have.

We will also discuss the many new developer tools added to Google Chrome and of course have pizza and great give aways.

Pizza at 5:30pm

Presentations from 6-8pm

Pleas RSVP by submitting this quick form.

It's GPARDY time!

2011-06-20T10:28:00.004-06:00

We are excited to bring you this month's meeting, a jeopardy style game we like to call GPARDY. Questions from the game will come from a variety of different Google technologies like Android, GWT, Google developer tools and more. You can learn about all of these by watching sessions from this years Google IO Developer conference. Don't worry if you don't think you know much about these, it's still going to be a lot of fun and hopefully you'll learn something just for coming!

The game itself has been built using Google technologies like App Engine, Android, GWT, Google Data API's, Chrome and much more. After the game we will show how we built the game and talk answer any questions. If you have a android device, dont forget to bring it so you can buzzin. If you dont, don't worry we will have other ways to buzzin - just not as cool. Okay, I lied there all cool.

As always we will have pizza, and if that isn't enough reason to come we have a lot of prizes to give out this month, including: shirts, gadgets, giftcards, plush, posters, notebooks, stickers, jetbrains license and a CR-48(thanks to Dan Langford).

We hope to see you there and encourage you to bring a friend! Don't forget to RSVP at http://bit.ly/ugtugrsvp, so that we can have enough pizza there.

We'd like to also give a shout out to Tek Systems this month who will providing us with pizza! And also we'd like to thank our platinum sponsors STG, Jetbrains, and Neumont University.

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
6-8pm (pizza starts at 5:30)
Neumont University, 10701 River front pkwy, South Jordan, UT 84095

April 2011 Utah GTUG Meeting: google javascript tools

2011-04-27T12:37:00.003-06:00

I want to report on the UGTUG meeting held in April. Unfortunately our original plans had to be altered because many of the UGTUG board members came down with sickness or conflicts at the last moment. We still had a good turnout, great pizza, give aways and a presentation. I was able to share with the group some of the google tools that I use when I tinker around with javascript.

Here are some of the things we discussed or mentioned or should have:

Google APIs, some of which are Javascript
API Loader makes it easy to load up Google JS APIs as well as other libraries like jQuery from the Google CDN. Use this Wizard to squish the needed libs into one network call.
Code playground with api samples lets you see and run and debug tons of working examples
Html5rocks.com code playground is the same as above but with examples of new HTML5 apis
API explorer lets you test out calls to specific API methods
API console lets you manage your API keys, the service they access, and the traffic they generate.
Google Closure tools [compiler, library, linter, templates, online compiler test drive]
Page Speed

We also took a moment to have attendees discuss any projects they are working on. As a result we were able to share ideas suggestions with each other. There are some really cool projects our members are developing and I think we should tap them for some presentations or demonstrations sometime.

Thanks everybody for coming out and hopefully will be a bit more organized next time.
Also don't forget to suggest and vote on what topic ideas you want covered in future meetings at UGTUGs Moderator page.

Our May meeting will be held at google io in san francisco. If you are able to make it out to the bay area be sure to watch google io presentations live. And you're going to want to attend our June meeting for some Google ~~Jeopardy~~ Geopardy and swag give away.

Big thanks go to Software Technology Group (STG) for sponsoring our April meeting. If you need a job or your company needs some contract work please keep them in mind.

March 2011 Utah GTUG Meeting

2011-03-09T15:17:00.001-07:00

Our monthly Utah Google Technology User Group meeting is tonight (Wednesday, March 9).

Kevin Anderson will be presenting on the Google Native Client http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/.

For our GWT breakout session we will be taking a look at RequestFactory.

Pizza will start at 5:30. We will start out presentation at 6:00 and the GWT breakout will start around 7:00.

We will be meeting at our usual location at:

Neumont University
10701 South River Front Parkway
South Jordan, UT 84095-3524
Room 300 (located on the 3rd floor)

If the doors of the Neumont building are locked, please call me at 801.376.9674 so we can send someone down to open the door for you!

We hope to see you all at this month's meeting!

February 2011 Utah GTUG Meeting

2011-02-08T13:55:00.001-07:00

This Wednesday, February 8, is our Utah Google Technology User Group meeting. This month we will be looking at Google Chrome Extensions.

After the Chrome Extensions presentation we will also have a GWT breakout discussing RPC options for GWT - GWT-RPC, Request Factory, REST, JSON.

Pizza will start at 5:30. We will start out presentation at 6:00 and the GWT breakout will start around 7:00.

We will be meeting at our usual location at:

Neumont University
10701 South River Front Parkway
South Jordan, UT 84095-3524
Room 300 (located on the 3rd floor)

Hopefully they replaced the projector bulb that exploded last month.

If the doors of the Neumont building are locked, please call me at 801.376.9674 so we can send someone down to open the door for you!

We hope to see you all at this month's meeting!

January Meeting Follow Up

2011-01-13T18:14:00.002-07:00

My App Engine slides from January's presentation are available here https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dc6d56x4_40gm2hkmhj.

The source code is up on our Google Code project and be checked out using Subversion from http://ugtug.googlecode.com/svn/app-engine-otherservices/ugtug-appengine/trunk/.

I will leave the demo App Engine application deployed for the foreseeable future. Here the URLs to play with it:

To generate a channel token

Go to http://chat-1.latest.utah-gtug.appspot.com/generateToken?clientId=XXXX, change the XXXX to whatever clientId you would like to use.

To open a channel and socket

Go to http://chat-1.latest.utah-gtug.appspot.com/listen.jsp. You will need to generate a channel token for this page to be useful.

To send data to a listening channel

Go to http://chat-1.latest.utah-gtug.appspot.com/sendMessage. You will have to pass clientId and message URL parameters for this to do anything.

XMPP

The page for sending invites, checking availability, and sending messages is http://chat-1.latest.utah-gtug.appspot.com/xmpp.jsp. The page for listening to XMPP responses is at http://chat-1.latest.utah-gtug.appspot.com/xmpp-listen.jsp.

Multitenancy

The multitenancy demo is available at http://chat-1.latest.utah-gtug.appspot.com/multitenancy.jsp

If you have any questions, post them in the comments section or on our Google Group, http://groups.google.com/group/utah-gtug, and I'll try to reply to them as soon as possible.

January 2011 UGTUG Meeting

2011-01-10T16:09:00.001-07:00

This Wednesday, January 12, is our first Utah Google Technology User
Group meeting of 2011. This month we will be looking at Google App
Engine again and looking into some of the services that often get
overlooked such as:

- Channel - for pushing date to the client
- XMPP - for interacting with IM clients and other XMPP based services
- Multitenancy - to compartmentalize your app engine data (i.e.
separate data out for different customers)

There will be a number of code examples including building an in
browser IM client.

After the app engine presentation we will also have a GWT breakout
discussing UI Binder.

Pizza will start at 5:30. We will start out presentation at 6:00 and
the GWT breakout will start around 7:00.

We will be meeting at our usual location at:

Neumont University
10701 South River Front Parkway
South Jordan, UT 84095-3524
Room 300 (located on the 3rd floor)

Some people have complained about the outside doors being locked
during our meetings at the Nuemont building. If you happen to get
locked out, call me at 801.376.9674 so we can send someone down to
open the door for you!

We hope to see you all at this month's meeting!

-The Utah Google Technology User Group Board

UGTUG Meeting on Wednesday!

2010-11-08T14:44:00.003-07:00

This Wednesday is our November UGTUG meeting! This month we are going to have a presentation by Gabriel Dayley and Mike Heath entitled "GWT, Ajax for a grown up web." It should be a great presentation and a good opportunity for everyone to get some firsthand experience on Google's Web Toolkit. These guys have put a lot of work into this presentation so it should be one not to miss! Mark you calendars and we hope to see you there!

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 6pm-8pm, pizza starts @ 5:30

Neumont University

10701 South River Front Parkway
South Jordan, UT 84095-3524

Room 300 (located on the 3rd floor)

Thanks,

Dan

July Meeting

2010-07-13T09:14:00.002-06:00

We will be meeting tomorrow, July 14th. Same time, same place: Neumont University from 6-8pm (Free Pizza @ 5:30pm).

Come and Join us for two 30 minute presentations on Google AdSense and Google Chrome Frame, presented by John Norton and Judson Flamm.

As always we will have a drawing for some neat giveaways.

See you there!

Google Maps API

2010-05-11T08:50:00.004-06:00

This month we will be talking about the Google Maps API. We are excited to have 2 presenters from the LDS Church talk about there implementation of LDS Maps using Google Maps (http://maps.lds.org). If your interested in learning about how to add maps to your application we encourage you to come join us for pizza and to meet other professionals who are interested in Google technologies. Our meeting for May is Wednesday, May 12 at 6pm. See you there!

Our Skit on YouTube

2010-01-07T17:35:00.004-07:00

Check out Judd & Gabe's skit from a prior meeting, posted on you tube.

View our skit at youtube.com

See you in January

2009-11-28T21:05:00.002-07:00

Just a reminder that there will be no meeting in December. We will return in January and hope to see you there. Stay tuned for an update on when and where that meeting will be. We are looking forward to the new year and growing our group.

Photos from our 1st meeting!

2009-08-28T09:35:00.003-06:00

September Meeting

2009-08-19T22:24:00.002-06:00

GWT anyone? At our September meeting Aaron Lubean will be presenting on the Google Web Toolkit. Come learn more about GWT as we discuss what it is, how it fits into the ajax world and what is upcoming in the 2.0 release.

We are also pleased to announce that Jetbrains has agreed to donate licenses to give away at each of meetings, so come check out the UGTUG for a chance to win one of these and other great door prizes.

UGTUG Google Group

2009-08-18T16:56:00.001-06:00

Come join the Utah GTUG Google Group.

http://groups.google.com/group/utah-gtug?lnk=gcimh

Pizza sponsored by Kforce

2009-07-31T17:11:00.003-06:00

This months meeting now includes Pizza, thanks to Kforce! Come have dinner and enjoy what promises to be a great presentation on Google AppEngine! Starts at 6pm at IHC in Lake Park.

Come one, Come all

2009-07-13T11:16:00.003-06:00

We are excited to announce that our first event will be on August 5th, 2009 at the IHC facility in Lake Park. The event will start at 6pm and run until about 9pm. We will have an overview of many of the Google Technologies and gather input from attendees on which ones they would like to see us focus on in the near future. So mark your calendars, bring a friend and help us get the word out.

WHOIS - Who Are You?

2009-06-14T22:47:00.002-06:00

I'm Judd Flamm, an Enthusiastic GWT user, as well as other Google Technologies like the JavaScript APIs, Google App Engine GAE - Java style, and I even use an Android phone - love it.

Who are you? Tell us about your interest in Google Technologies! What would you like to get out of the UGTUG? Take a moment and comment on this post with your info and thoughts...

Getting The Word Out!?

2009-06-14T22:42:00.002-06:00

What ways to do we have of getting the word out to Developers in the community that the UGTUG exists? Please post any ideas...

Introducing UGTUG!

2009-06-08T20:44:00.002-06:00

We are glad to announce a new chapter of the Google Technology User Group here in Utah. Our meetings will be focused around the many different Google technologies such as Google Ajax apis, Android, GWT, AppEngine, and much more. Our intent is to create a place for collaboration and learning. Please stay tuned as we are just getting formed and look forward to organizing our first meeting in upcoming months.