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A fantastic opportunity to learn Git

Sometimes it takes planning and persistence for things to come together, but then when it happens you end up with great opportunities. An awesome example is the Git and GitHub workshop that is going to happen in Victoria, BC on the 29th of August 2012. The well known speaker, author, trainer and VP of Training at GitHub Matthew McCullough is coming to town to present at a joint event of the Vancouver Island Java User Group VIJUG and the Google Developer Group Victoria BC on the 30th of August. For those interested in more than just a short presentation we are hosting a full day training course of incredible value to anybody from Git beginner to long-time GitHub user.

In the interest of being able to organize a correctly sized venue and to ensure that we do not have to turn you away I would ask you all to find out more about the event on the registration page and book as soon as possible.

As the local organizer and contact person, feel free to contact me for more detail. Especially also if you are interested in sponsoring the event venue or attendee lunch/coffee!

I look forward to hear from you and see you there

manfred

JellyBean, GCM and Javadoc for the Maven Android SDK Deployer

Thanks to some great pull requests and some cleanup and testing on my side the Maven Android SDK Deployer is now available in version 1.3 and support the latest Android version 4.1 (platform 16), Google Cloud Messaging library for client and server usage as well as generation of javadoc artifacts for the android jars. Pretty awesome right!

Google IO 2012 Recap

So I am back from my first Google IO conference now after lucking out with the ticket purchase process (raffle?!) and missing out two year in a row before. I am glad it worked out this time, because it was a great show. In fact there were so many highlight and announcements that some products seemed to make no progress on the surface while in fact if you went to the respective sessions and paid attention you found out that LOTS is going on and I will mention some of my observations as GDG leader and long time Android developer and open source developer.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-24

Don't forget that tomorrow is the #gdg #yyj kick off event. http://t.co/BZ4Cs6qC #
If your #maven project build contains any relative (search for ..) or absolute paths in the pom, you are doing it wrong. #fail #
Play vs Grails… will there be a recording? @_JamesWard @mraible @tobrien #
Btw. @JakeWharton for check style without absolute path look at https://t.co/ATGSNUyl #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-17

We are launching a Google Developer Group Victoria BC. Come join us! http://t.co/BZ4Cs6qC #yyj #

Launching the Google Developer Group Victoria BC

After starting the Vancouver Island Java User Group VIJUG over five years ago and running many successful meetings it is time to mix it up. Android and technologies like HTML 5 are taking the center stage of interest for many developers in town and beyond. In order to facilitate all these different interests and technologies I am launching GDG Victoria BC…

Great. Looking forward to 3x though @hudsonci: Hudson 2.2.1 production release is now available http://t.co/6HV4zI5q #
Well done 😉 @JakeWharton #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-03

Don't forget to come to tonights #vijug meeting in #yyj Great lightning talks are lined up! http://t.co/H4NS02Z5 #
Next weeks Advanced #Maven class w brand new material dispelling some of the myths around Maven has still room Join me! http://t.co/23XqA6BJ #
Last nights #vijug was great. Thanks #xmatters and everybody that came, presented and listened. #
Alright! @matthewmccull is coming to town in August to teach all #vijug members some more #git fu. http://t.co/8idbm7El #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-27

Oh my.. after ICS on my Nexus S it is now also arriving on my Xoom up here in Canada over the air. Thanks @motorola_ca and @samsungmobileca #
Well said! Back to coding now though.. @jim_rutherford: Sums up my thoughts about being a mid-fourties coder… http://t.co/eLsRxB3S #
Updating MacOSX with the app store. How about a download progress bar beyond the darn spinning wheel? So much for useful UI design .. sigh #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-20

Final touches to the slides and material for the #android #maven workshop at @AnDevCon done. Uploading now. Class later today #
Slides and material for #android #maven workshop from @AnDevCon are up. @hudsonci @jenkinsci @SonatypeNexus http://t.co/dSGeafPx #
Slides for my successful lighting talk at @AnDevCon are up even though I probably stepped on a few toes. http://t.co/pdFEFX6B #
Got an impressive demo of the battery powered games sdk from @johnfrey99 yesterday. #androiddev #
Great. Looks familiar… @tornorbye: New configuration chooser in the ADT layout editor: http://t.co/MC31FgqJ #androiddev #
Don't forget the book signing at @AnDevCon at 11:30 today to get Repository Management with #sonatypenexus from me.. #
The book signing at @AnDevCon to get Repository Management with #sonatypenexus from me has been moved to 12:45. See you there! #
Fireside chat at @AnDevCon was a roaring success imho. http://t.co/CnlA4Zh5 #