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Android - General > Learn about Android Internals and NDK

March 7, 2010 8:38:08 PM PST (4 days ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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San Francisco Android User Group held an event on February 23rd, 2010 with Marko Gargenta who presented on Android Internals and NDK. ...More...

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General - Announcements > Marakana featured in Dublin

February 19, 2010 10:48:35 AM PST (3 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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Around Dublin Blog has published a nice little article on Marakana. They got our history and purpose right. And they even reward their readers for reading the article.

Thanks Jimmy, John and rest of the crew at Around Dublin!

MarkoMore...

Java - General > Learn About Continuous Integration With Hudson Directly From the Source

February 18, 2010 10:33:27 PM PST (3 weeks ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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Marakana-organized San Francisco Java User Group hosted an event on Feb 9th, 2010 with Kohsuke Kawaguchi from Sun who talked about Hudson, an open-source continuous integration (CI) system, which improves the productivity of a development team by automating various things. ...More...

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Android - General > Get a behind-the-scenes look at a real-world Android app

February 9, 2010 1:00:45 AM PST (4 weeks ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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On January 26th, the San Francisco Android User Group hosted an event with Danny Roa, who shared his lessons-learned along the way of building his San Francisco Muni Plus application, selling for $1.99 on Android Market. ...More...

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General - Announcements > We're Hiring

February 2, 2010 7:24:31 PM PST (5 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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We're looking for a kick-ass training coordinator, a java web developer, and a web designer. You got what it takes?
http://marakana.com/about/jobs.html
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Java - General > Learn how to use Selenium with Maven/Ant to automate testing of web apps

February 1, 2010 12:30:46 AM PST (5 weeks ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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Chris Bedford recently gave a talk on How to use Selenium with Maven/Ant to automate testing of web apps at the San Francisco Java User Group.

Chris talked about:

How to write functional tests with Selenium (including explaining its IDE, architecture, RC, and alternatives like Canoo WebTest)
How to set up Selenium testing for web apps in continuous integration using Maven, Ant, Cargo, etc.
How to use Hudson for build server (brief overview)

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Ruby - Ruby on Rails > Scaling most popular lists

December 28, 2009 9:28:21 AM PST (10 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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Wolfram Arnold speaks at LA Ruby Conference on Scaling 'most popular' lists: a plugin solution. ...More...

Agile - Agile > Going Agile With Scrum at Genius.com

December 23, 2009 12:02:51 PM PST (11 weeks ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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Looking for a Agile/Scrum success story? Folks from Genius.com share their experience of going agile with Scrum at a joint SF Agile, PHP, and Java community event that took place on December 15th 2009 at Microsoft in San Francisco. Organized by Marakana and Mike Tougeron, this event was preceded by Marko's short overview of Scum. ...More...

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Agile - Agile > Scrum Overview

December 17, 2009 3:00:04 PM PST (12 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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This is my short presentation on Scrum - as a prequel to the featured talk on Going Agile With Scrum at Genius.com. I gave it at SFAgile on December 15 at Microsoft in SF. Download and share!. Btw, this presentation got featured on Slideshare.com! ...More...

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Android - General > Android Overview for Managers

November 23, 2009 4:12:40 PM PST (15 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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This is my updated presentation on Android platform with emphasis on technical managers and developers new to the platform. ...More...

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Java - General > Google Wave API: Now and Beyond

November 19, 2009 4:44:03 PM PST (16 weeks ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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Marcel Prasetya, who is a Software Engineer on the Google Wave APIs Team, gave a talk on Google Wave API: Now and Beyond at the San Francisco Java User Group's November 10th, 2009 meetup event held in San Francisco, CA at Google Inc.

Marcel started off with a short overview of Google Wave, and then turned to the Google Wave APIs (Gadgets, Robots, etc.), the federation protocol, and the the road-map for the Wave project. I just wish he had more time to show additional code examples and go into technical details, which is why we'll have to invite him back :-) ...More...

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Java - General > The Chronicles of Web Standard - Prince Comet: Next Wave of Comet

November 19, 2009 4:26:00 PM PST (16 weeks ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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My friend Kevin Nilson from SV-Web-JUG recently moderated a rather interesting talk on the Next Wave of Comet - what some like to call Reverse AJAX.

Kevin is an avid speaker on Comet, having even given a talk on Comet at San Francisco Java User Group, that I help organize.

Anyway, this talk not only discussed the present and the future for Comet, but also HTML 5 and other next-generation web technologies.

Panelists included:
Alex Russell, Google Engine & Past President of the Dojo Foundation.
Michael Carter, Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5
Ted Goddard, Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org
Greg Wilkins, Lead Developer of the Jetty
Dylan Schiemann, co-founder of Dojo Toolkit and CEO of SitePen. ...More...

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Agile - Agile > Jens Østergaard on Why Scrum Is So Hard

November 3, 2009 5:33:00 PM PST (18 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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Jens gave this talk to SFAgile users group on August 20 at Marakana in San Francisco. Make sure you check out the slides as well.

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Python - Python > Why Python

October 27, 2009 3:03:22 PM PDT (19 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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Marilyn Davis did a talk in Foster City on Why Python. Python programming language has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, for both web development, as a testing automation language, as well as in specialty cases such as biochemistry. Marilyn's talk explains why you should care about Python. It's an easy 45-minute or so presentation. Enjoy!

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Java - General > Effective Java - Still Effective After All These Years

October 23, 2009 10:10:32 AM PDT (20 weeks ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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Joshua Bloch serves up a few Java Puzzlers as an appetizer before and as dessert after the main course on Effective Java at SV-Web-JUG on October 20th, 2009 at Google HQ in Mountain View, CA.

Here are the video (1:13:59) and the slides (1.3MB PDF):

Organized By: Van Riper and Kevin Nilson
Hosted and Sponsored By: Google
Video By: MarakanaMore...

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Android - General > Introduction to Android

October 21, 2009 12:42:58 PM PDT (20 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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Here's a talk that I gave at SD Forum in Palo Alto.

Android Introduction by Marko Gargenta, Marakana
Presented by Peter Lam, Mobile SIG Co-chair, Software Developers Forum

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Java - General > GWT Can Help You Create Amazing Web Apps

October 19, 2009 12:12:11 PM PDT (20 weeks ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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Fred Sauer, a Google Developer Advocate, talks about Google Web Toolkit (GWT), an open-source web-development framework that helps Java developers build and maintain sophisticated JavaScript-based web apps (all in Java).

In addition to providing an overview of GWT, Fred also touches on lessor known features and focus on those tools which are particularly useful for larger, more complex projects or in environments where the are multiple developers which need to collaborate on a single application.

Fred's slides on GWT (PDF, 6.7MB) are also available for download.

This talk was:
- Presented by The San Francisco Java User Group
- Hosted by Google of San Francisco
- Sponsored by Guidewire Software, Sun, O'Reilly, and JetBrains
- Organized by MarakanaMore...

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General - Announcements > Navy SEALs Bootcamp

October 15, 2009 9:45:16 AM PDT (21 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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We are doing an all-day Navy SEALs bootcamp today. It'll be interesting to see what the real SEALs consider "Bootcamp training".
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Android - General > Beyond Helloworld

October 12, 2009 1:57:43 PM PDT (21 weeks ago)

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Marko Gargenta

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Folks who came to SFAndroid.org presentation on October 8 at Marakana in San Francisco, here's the link to the project that we worked on during the presentation:
http://marakana.com/static/download/android/GolfScore.zip

and here's an example of a completed app (with some database/other features):
http://marakana.com/static/download/android/GolfCaddy.zip

and here's the screen cast of my desktop:

If you find this a bit too small to see, jump to YouTube and watch it in a bigger window.

Enjoy.More...

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Java - General > Introduction to Java DB and Apache Derby

September 18, 2009 4:02:09 PM PDT (24 weeks ago)

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Aleksandar Gargenta

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Rick Hillegas, Java DB Technical Team Lead at Sun Microsystems, talks about Java DB (a.k.a Apache Derby) at The San Francisco Java User Group's Sep 8th event in San Francisco.

I will publish the slides for this event as soon as Rick sends them to me, which may take a couple of days.

This event was hosted by Google Inc, organized by Marakana Inc., and sponsored by TEKsystems, Marakana, Sun Microsystems, and Stephen Chin.More...

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