The JUG meeting offers a great place to network with other developers, recruiters and businesses as well as to learn new technologies. The location is on our website, and as always we have refreshments available – thanks to our sponsor ettaingroup! If you plan to attend please use our Invitation.

Presentation Outline

This meeting will focus on Robocode. This is a gaming platform that supports the creation of AI Bots (tanks) that are designed to fight against each other in a virtual arena. We will have a brief tutorial then break into teams and hone the designs. To get the most out of this meeting everyone should plan to bring one or more functional bots and a laptop. Make sure your bot runs with version Robocode 1.7.2.0 so that we can all compete.

At the end of the meeting we will have a couple rounds of online competition to see which team’s bots have the best design.

Also don’t miss the possibility of another flying, screaming monkey give-a-way.

Presentation Outline

Basics of Build Automation
You can do all of the following with Hudson and CruiseControl. In the end, what you have is a good build of hopefully well tested code.
- Using Source Control
- Script your Builds
- Adding CI (covers test case number one: does it still compile)
- Adding Test Case number two (Automated Regression Testing)
- Adding Test Cases for every Bug
- Functional Testing, Code Coverage, Static Analysis

But here is what you don’t have with Hudson and Cruise Control:
- Repeatable Deployment Automation to all of your Environments across your entire cluster of servers
- Binary artifact Repository
- Separation of Duties (financial industry: story)
- Dashboard of build statuses including where they have been deployed.
- Customizable Life Cycle Models

Additional Benefits of AnthillPro:
- Build Once, Deploy multiple times
- Plug-in Model
- Multiple Scripting language support
- Full Workflow model complete with Pre-conditions and Post Conditions.

Demo of AnthillPro

Presenter Bio

Eric Starr is a Senior Software Automation Engineer.

He has over 13 years experience developing software with 11 years of Java/ANT/Maven.
For the past year and a half Eric has been using his development experience focusing on the automation of the build
and deployment of applications using AnthillPro. Eric has worked with numerous clients, often
consulting with them providing best practices for Java, Maven and ANT as well as mentoring teammates in the fines arts of
automation using AnthillPro.

Eric also created and maintains a Blog and User Forums related to AnthillPro called Anthillizer.com.

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In this talk, I will demonstrate the Asterisk telephone branch exchange (PBX) running in a Linux virtual machine on the Hyper-V technology of Windows Server 2008 R2. I will discuss the Linux flavors supported on Hyper-V, the Microsoft Linux Integration Components, and recent developments and directions with running Linux VMs on Hyper-V.

I will then present an overview of a working PBX, using the FreePBX package. I will demonstrate Asterisk and the FreePBX GUI, and will describe the many features and capabilities of this platform. I will give practical examples of how I have used this technology at home, using a router which integrates the VoIP and Analog telephone lines into one seamless system.

Next, I will show how to integrate .NET code running on a Windows box with the Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI), using the nAsterisk .NET library available on CodePlex. I will show you how you can call out of the Asterisk dialplan to interact with a SQL Server database and to perform just about any task in the Windows world during the course of a dialplan session.

Finally, we will save time for some general Q&A on the topics we have just discussed.

Food and drinks will be provided.