Speaker : Adam Horvath

If you have heard of MapReduce and wondered what it is or how you can use it then come along and hear about Adam's experience.

You will hear about :

• What is MapReduce ?
• What is it good for, when to avoid ?
• Some real world examples (with code demos) to show how easy it is to process the data you already have (log parsing, trend analysis, product recommendation based on user visits, etc).
• The whole idea is to show how short the learning curve can be and how easy it is to go to production with your custom data processing.

An evening to understand and play with Dart and the APIs of Blogger

Speaker : Brett Morgan - Google

Q. Will it be hands on ?

A. Yep (so bring your laptop).

Q. Its March - what took you guys so long ?

A. Gary and Johno have both got new jobs and have been very busy in their respective transitions.

Q. What is a Goggomobil ? Is it Google's self-driving car ?

A. No way - but if you enjoy some uniquely Australian trivia :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6pO7eLeiM

How about a 48 hr Android hackathon to get the year started !!

20 Sydney developers will be able to participate in this global event so secure your place now. It should be lots of fun.

More info here :

http://android-dev-camp-2012.blogspot.com/

Google Sydney is hosting the event. Don’t bring your sleeping bags though because we only have daylight access over the weekend. You can hack-on through the night in your PJs and then return to the Google offices during the day. We appreciate Googlers giving up their weekend to support this event.

Organised locally by Sydney GTUG and Australian Android User Group.

Schedule (1st Update : subject to change) :

• Friday 17 Feb - 7pm 9pm : Welcome and project sign-up, official start.
• Saturday 18 Feb - 10am - 6pm : Day 1 hacking
• Sunday 19 Feb - 10am - 6pm : Day 2, Project presentations. 6pm close.

Our last Sydney GTUG for 2011 will mix up hackathon and an end-of-year party. Think - Nerd Office Christmas Party !

!!!! NOTE THE LATER START TIME !!!!

When : 6:45pm

There will be an EASY and FUN hackathon project for :

* AppEngine

* Android

So bring your computer and enjoy the learning and the cheer.

We have invited Santa so hopefully he can make it.

Hope you can too.

PS : Reflecting on 2011 - what is the best & coolest thing in technology you did / saw / learnt this year ? Have a think about that and we will be inviting everyone for 5-10 minute talks.

Come along on for drinks and/or dinner and a chat with other GDD attendees the night before the event. There will be some Googlers present as well as community leaders from the Sydney GTUG and Android Australia User Group.

You will need to buy your own food / drink. All welcome. Hope you can make it.

What is GDD ?

Google Developer Day is a one-day event featuring advanced technical content on Google platforms and products from the teams that work on them.Join us for the latest developments in Android, Chrome, HTML5, Cloud and more in Sydney on November 8, 2011.http://www.google.com/events/developerday/2011/sydney/

Its Android month again and we have some great local speakers covering both technical and business topics.

Speakers :

1. Ankur Kotwal (Google) - Whats new in Android 
2. Mike Boyd / Gianpaolo De Biase (AppCast) - Mike will share some "war stories" during a large Android/iOS project for a wagering company. Gianpaolo [Technical] will dive into some technical solutions for database storage and syncing. 
3. John Scott (StudyLink) - [Technical] MotoDev Studio 3.0 has just been released and now has  support for view code generation and great Sqlite development tools. It has saved me lots of time and hassle writing boilerplate code and I will demonstrate how.

Whether you have a interest or a passion for the language, tonight its all Go with two talks from Google.  Speakers : 1.  Andrew Gerrand (Google)  - Update on the Go project with a walk- through of the construction of a simple App Engine app. 2.  Rob Pike (Google) - In-depth  walk-through of a particularly interesting piece of Go  code, the lexer from the new template package. What is Go ? Check out  http://golang.org/

Come along to our September meeting - all welcome.

Member Tech-Talks  - Short talks from members about their recent experiences with Google technologies.

Please RSVP so we can cater for chairs and snacks.

Speakers :

1. Tony Chan (Google) will speak about developing apps for Android tablets.

2. Hank Droid will present NFC - a technical overview, how Android does it and potential applications. A Nexus S demo will show tag reading and peer-to-peer communication.

Code-lab : Learn how to build a tablet optimized application. Bring your laptop (and tablet if you have one) with the Android developer tools ready to go. 

Audience : Android Developers with preference for those already developed an Android app and deployed it in Android Market

Win an Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK) - pitch the best idea for a project that uses the ADK and the audience will vote. Winner announced at the end of the night.

See our web site for details

OK Everyone, Its YOUR turn to speak ! 

Next Thursday we are doing a `Lightning Night` for our April meeting. 

WHEN : Thu 14 Apr 2011 at 6pm (for 6:30pm start) WHERE : Google Sydney, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Street, Pyrmont, Sydney Map: http://goo.gl/maps/N55j 

Q. What is a Lightning Night ? A. Short, Fast and to-the-point presentations of ANYTHING you want to discuss with your fellow Sydney GTUGgers 

Q. How can I prepare ? A. Its like a regular presentation, only shorter. Bring your laptop or a USB drive. Prepare some slides (10 or less is recommended). Or if you want to demo something live, just jump straight into it. 

Q. What is the format ? A. Up to you but here is a guide : - Introduce yourself and your topic. Make your point up front to engage the audience. - Get stuck into it. Forget the preamble (keep it short) and jump into whatever the point of your talk is. - Conclude. Wrap up, make your point again. Take a bow. 

Q. This sounds mad. Are you for real ? A. Yep. Believe us, it will be entertaining and fun for the audience and rewarding for you the speaker. 

We would really like EVERYONE to speak so please respond to the RSVP form below and get cracking. 

http://goo.gl/n82mz 

This one will be fun. 

John Scott Sydney GTUG co-Manager Web : http://www.sydney-gtug.org/ Twitter: @sydgtug Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/sydney-gtug/ 

Hi everyone, we have two very interesting talks for our March meeting.

WHEN : Tue 29 March 2011 at 6pm (for 6:30pm start) 

WHERE : Google Sydney, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Street, Pyrmont, Sydney  Map: http://goo.gl/maps/N55j

SPEAKERS

1 Anthony Baxter (Google) : Mapping the recent Australian natural disasters – Vic Bushfires 2010, Qld and Vic Floods 2011. Hear how the local Google office has responded to provide timely and meaningful information to disaster affected regions.

2. James Tyrrell (VMWare) GWT and Spring Roo Schema to cloud in no time flat! This presentation will show you how to use GWT and Spring Roo to quickly create high-performance web applications in Java. It will cover:

 *   What is Roo and how it integrates with your existing Java tools

 *   Reverse engineering an existing database to create a GWT app within minutes

 *   Propagation of domain model changes to the GWT front-end

 *   Deploying the finished product to the cloud

RSVP : Please fill in the form so we can cater for seats and snacks. 

http://goo.gl/jsHz4

Look forward to seeing you there.

LIVE STREAM : Fingers crossed we will stream / record this live for those 

that can't attend. 

John Scott

Sydney GTUG co-Manager

Web : http://www.sydney-gtug.org/

Twitter: @sydgtug 

Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/sydney-gtug/

Lineup:

1. MAPS API for JavaScript (with Fusion Tables)

Speaker : Chris Broadfoot (Google)

2. Android Tips & Tricks for Developers.

Speaker : John Scott

As recently announced on the Android blog, Australian developers can now sell paid apps on Android marketplace. Given that news and the growing increase of Android phones available in Australia, we want to make sure that Australian developers know how to develop apps and understand the marketplace system. 

We are bringing down two Android developer advocates, Tony Chan and Ken Liu, and they will be speaking at two events in Sydney during their short stint here: 

Wednesday, Nov. 3rd @ 6pm: Sydney GTUG - Android Intro 

This talk will give an overview of the Android ecosystem and an introduction to creating apps. 

Talks:

An introduction to Go by Rob Pike. Yes, that Rob Pike. Or for those too young to remember:

Rob Pike is a Principal Engineer at Google, Inc. He works on distributed systems, data mining, programming languages, and software development tools. Before Google, Rob was a member of the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, the lab that developed Unix. While there, he worked on computer graphics, user interfaces, languages, concurrent programming, and distributed systems. He was an architect of the Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems and is the co-author with Brian Kernighan of *The Unix Programming Environment* and *The Practice of Programming*. Other details of his life appear on line but vary in veracity.

From: http://research.google.com/people/r/index.html Go, the language: http://golang.org/

An introduction to Closure by Daniel Nadasi

The Closure Compiler is a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster. It is a true compiler for JavaScript. Instead of compiling from a source language to machine code, it compiles from JavaScript to better JavaScript. It parses your JavaScript, analyzes it, removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what's left. It also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls.

Closure: http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/