• Meeting: Silicon Valley GTUG
• Date: August 6, 2008
• Cost: Always FREE to all!
• Topic: Using the Google Collections Library for Java
• Speaker: Kevin Bourrillion

Although this is a free event, we are requesting that people register in advance and we will be limiting attendance to a maximum of 200 attendees.

The Java Collections Framework is indispensable to nearly every Java developer. Yet, you may often find yourself searching for a collection type, implementation, or utility that's nowhere to be found. In this session, you'll learn how the open-source Google Collections Library builds on the excellent foundation of java.util, to provide more of the building blocks you need to do your job. You'll see many examples of how your code can become simpler, safer, more flexible, and more powerful by adopting classes like ReferenceMap, Multimap, our immutable collections and many others.

• 6:00-6:15pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google
  
• 6:15-6:45pm Google Technology Demos by our members
  
• 6:50-7:00pm General Announcements
  
• 7:00-8:00pm Google Collections Library talk by Kevin Bourrillion
  

During the networking hour, we invite our members that develop applications using Google Technology to do brief demos of 5 minutes or less. Please contact Van Riper to indicate your interest to demo your stuff. Time permitting, we will include as many demos as possible before the main event. Demos of web applications already running live on Google App Engine will be given precedence for this particular meeting.

Kevin Bourrillion is the lead engineer for Google's core Java libraries, more of which will be open-sourced in the future. He is a primary author of the Google Collections Library, and of Google's Java dependency injection framework, Guice. He came to Google in 2004 after seven years of fighting for life at a string of Hot Silicon Valley Start-Ups.

Google, Inc. (GooglePlex Map)
Tunis Conference Room, Bldg. 43
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Please enter from the north side of the building, in the middle of the Google campus. Also, parking will be much easier to find in the lots south of Bldg. 44 across the street from the main complex.

We would like to thank Google for providing the venue and the refreshments for this meeting. In particular, we would like to thank Stephanie Liu for serving as our primary meeting support contact at Google.