Open Source Journal

The latest issue of the Open Source Journal is now available! Click on the image below to download your free version of Open Source Journal Issue 2 (3rd Edition) pdf.

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Vision

The Open Source Journal was founded as a central published resource where articles, knowledge sharing, and interesting news from the world of open source technology would be freely available to the community.
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Submitted articles

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OSC User Group

The Open Source Central User Group (OSC UG) is an environment where anybody with an interest in all things open source can meet up, mingle, share ideas and collaborate.

The group ranges from beginners to experts, and there's no requirement to be a guru to be involved.

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GOTO Amsterdam Conference - Scala in the Java EE world
2012-05-24

Scala in the Java EE world

Track: The JVM: One Platform To Bind Them All / Time: Thursday 14:30 - 15:20 / Location: Room 1

Jan will show where, how and why we have used Scala to implement portions of typical Java EE applications. Discover what Scala promises to deliver and what the reality really is. Jan w...

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Archived

Presentation documentation and video of all events will be archived in this section.

Benefits

The OSC User Group offers technical talks on various open source topics. The talks cover a wide range of technologies and are given by experts in their given fields.

Also, as members of the Open Source Central User Group you may benefit from discounted tickets to events such as the Skills Matters eXchange's and QCon etc.

Contact us

If you have anything you want to ask or discuss, e-mail the head of the Open Source Central User Group Jan Machacek.

Open Source Central

Blogs

This week in #Scala (18/05/2012)

Welcome to another week in #Scala. It’s been little quieter than it has in previous weeks, however we’ve still plenty of juicy Scala morsels for you to devour! New Stuff Aptly named, play2...

QCon London 2012 ? Retrospective

After couple of weeks of letting things settle a bit after QCon London 2012 has anything stuck with me? Have I learned anything? Was it worth? What did I learn and did it prompt me to extend my knowle...

False Positives in Database Integration Tests

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Redefining software quality

A lot of my consulting work lately has been around helping teams see software quality more holistically – that it’s not something only testers (or only developers) should be concerned abou...

Spring Integration: Whats going on in there? Part 1 Esper wire tap

Earlier this week Russ Miles announced the release of the OpenCredo Esper extension project (read it here).  This project is something we created primarily to make using Esper, the open source Comple...

Videos

Agile Financial Model - London March 2012
Spring in Scala Webinar - Jan Machacek
Agility in the time of Austerity - Ian Brookes, Cake Solutions
Breakthrough Development Teams - Ian Brookes - Cake Solutions

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