The FOUNDING of the OCJUG and its FIRST MEETING

Around June of 1996, Les Gainous ,who worked for Plaid Brothers Software in Irvine, wanted to see what all the hype was about with Java. Being a database programmer, his first "proof of concept" project was to see how retrieving data from a database within Java worked. He acquired a beta version of a JDBC component that allows access to various client-server-based databases such as Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. After two weeks of frustrating work (not full-time, but in his spare times in the evenings and weekends), he finally was able to submit SQL statements to my SQL Server and process the results via a browser. One reason it took so long was that there was no one he could turn to for questions. Usenet newsgroups helped, but it was hard to converse in depth with that medium. Also, being an advocate (and active participant) or local user groups, he decided to see if I could generate interest in forming a local Java user group in Orange County. There was already one in Santa Monica, but that location was not feasible to all the developers in Orange Co. A lot of folks were interested and he received a great deal of help from the local Sun Microsystems office in Irvine. They offered to supply a meeting room, food, drinks, etc. he made some flyers to distribute a other local user groups. He needed a phrase to put on those flyers and created the "Java Developers Helping Java Developers" phrase that seemed to have stuck. On August 21, 1996, approximately 15 people attended the Orange County Java User Group's (OCJUG) inaugural meeting.

Mike Rede and Derek Lai from Sun Microsystems gave a presentation of the current state of Java and the direction it was going.

Note:
Les Gainous resigned his chairmanship of OCJUG in the following January to become the current president of the Orange Co. SQL Server User Group ( http://206.171.105.130/ocsqlug/). He is a software development Group Manager, as well as the Technical Lead for our internet initiatives for Plaid Brothers Software in Irvine. Visit his web page at http://home.earthlink.net/~lesgainous. Looking for a Client-Server job in California? http://home.earthlink.net/~lesgainous/jobs.html

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The FOUNDING of the OCJUG and its FIRST MEETING Around June of 1996, Les Gainous ,who worked for Plaid Brothers Software in Irvine, wanted to see what all the hype was about with Java. Being a database programmer, his first "proof of concept" project was to see how retrieving data from a database within Java worked. He acquired a beta version of a JDBC component that allows access to various client-server-based databases such as Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. After two weeks of frustrating work (not full-time, but in his spare times in the evenings and weekends), he finally was able to submit SQL statements to my SQL Server and process the results via a browser. One reason it took so long was that there was no one he could turn to for questions. Usenet newsgroups helped, but it was hard to converse in depth with that medium. Also, being an advocate (and active participant) or local user groups, he decided to see if I could generate interest in forming a local Java user group in Orange County. There was already one in Santa Monica, but that location was not feasible to all the developers in Orange Co. A lot of folks were interested and he received a great deal of help from the local Sun Microsystems office in Irvine. They offered to supply a meeting room, food, drinks, etc. he made some flyers to distribute a other local user groups. He needed a phrase to put on those flyers and created the "Java Developers Helping Java Developers" phrase that seemed to have stuck. On August 21, 1996, approximately 15 people attended the Orange County Java User Group's (OCJUG) inaugural meeting. Mike Rede and Derek Lai from Sun Microsystems gave a presentation of the current state of Java and the direction it was going. Note: Les Gainous resigned his chairmanship of OCJUG in the following January to become the current president of the Orange Co. SQL Server User Group ( http://206.171.105.130/ocsqlug/). He is a software development Group Manager, as well as the Technical Lead for our internet initiatives for Plaid Brothers Software in Irvine. Visit his web page at http://home.earthlink.net/~lesgainous. Looking for a Client-Server job in California? http://home.earthlink.net/~lesgainous/jobs.html