1. Check out the site and please give us some feedback
2. If you are a Duchess member, log in and update your profile
3. If you are a woman in Java technology and not yet a member, join us
4. If you are not a member, subscribe to our newsletter – this enables us to reach those who are interested in receiving news about Duchess (members are subscribed by default)
5. Share the link http://jduchess.org on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Plaxo, Hyves, etc. On Twitter, follow jduchess and retweet our messages, use the #jduchess hashtag

Today, we are launching a new website – Duchess Community, a social networking site that enables members to connect with each other across the globe.

Features of Duchess Community include:

• Friend Connections
• Rich Profiles
• Activity Streams
• Private Messaging
• Groups
• Forums
• Blogging
• Multilingual Enabled

Each Duchess Chapter is set up as a group, but topic-related groups can be created by any logged in user. Forums can be accessed through groups or through the forum directory.

We are launching with an international audience in mind by enabling the site to be multilingual. For the launch, the site is set up to be displayed in Dutch, French, and Brazilian Portuguese. We are currently working with volunteers to complete the translations and enable more languages. Let us know if you can help.

All users from our old site have been migrated to the new Duchess Community site. If you are already a member, please log in and update your profile. Feel free to browse around the site and let us know what you think via twitter or email: duchess(at)jduchess(dot)org. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions.

Source: http://blog.xebia.fr/2010/03/03/creation-de-jduchess-en-france/

Please join me in a warm welcome to Duchess France – the newest addition to the Duchess Community.

After meeting a few ladies from Paris at Devoxx 2009, the events have been set in motion to create Duchess France. Duchess France is our first chapter outside of the Netherlands and is the first step in globally connecting women in Java technology.

Rough Translation:
What we wish for jDuchess is to build a community where women who work with Java can connect with each other and share their experiences and points of view. We want to build a social network to make women more visible in the Java community, and to enable them to participate at events like the Paris JUG, and other events and conferences. And perhaps also become a speaker and present at these events.

You can get in contact with Duchess France via Twitter, Google Group and LinkedIn. For more info, please contact ellene(dot)dijoux(at)jduchess(dot)org.

Order your goodies here: http://duchess.shirtcity.com/

There are not enough women in the IT industry, and almost none of them rise to senior management level. The women in the IT company Trifork A/S want to change that.

When Trifork A/S for the 13th time welcomes participants to JAOO Aarhus, female software developers, project managers, IT architects etc. get free access to one of the 3 conference days. A part of the conference programme will be targeted towards those few women who are in the IT industry.

• http://jaoo.dk/aarhus-2009/women/

Taking advantage of the temporary free membership for JUGs, Duchess has just joined the JCP or Java Community Process.

By joining the JCP as an organization, Duchess enables all her members to participate in the community and make use of the results of this participation within any projects or product developments at the organization. JCP proceedings and content are restricted to the organization that you represent. This means that you cannot make contributions on behalf of your company nor can you share with your employer anything that you learned within the JCP. Companies can also contribute to the JCP by becoming a member themselves.

Benefits of membership include being able to contribute directly in the JCP by submitting JSRs for review, serving on JSR Expert Groups, accessing Community Update pages for JSRs, voting in Executive Committee elections, and attending JCP Member online and in-person events. A secondary benefit is the discounts for Java training class in the Sun catalog.

We will have access to a priority code shortly.

Discounts:
* 10% discount on classroom training
* 25% discount on CD-ROM and web-based training

On March 3, 2009, in a historic moment of cooperation between government and industry, 5 European and multinational companies signs a Code of Best Practices for Women and ICT in response to the call by Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, to attract more girls into ICT. The 5 companies are:
* Alcatel-Lucent
* IMEC
* Orange France Telecom Group
* Microsoft
* Motorola

More information at PublicTechnoloy.net.

english | nederlands

Postponed until further notice

We are proud to present our next workshop event on REST sponsored by InfoSupport.
REST came about as a simpler alternative to SOAP for building web services, used for integrating different systems. For example, Amazon has offered a REST API for years, while Google has just announced that they are killing their SOAP API and moving to REST. Come learn about REST at our hands-on workshop.

Duchess REST Workshop
The next Duchess event is a REST workshop, presented by Paul Bakker of InfoSupport.

REST is one of those subjects that everybody seems to be talking about, while many don’t actually know what it is and how it works. In this presentation they will give an introduction on the concepts behind RESTful web services, and will explain what the differences are with traditional, RPC-like, web services, and they will look into the advantages of REST. After talking about the basic concepts of RESTful web services, they will look into how to develop services according to a Resource Oriented Architecture, an architecture based on RESTful web services. Of course there will be many code examples. They will also pay attention to JAX-RS, the new API that will be part of Java EE 6, which offers possibilities to develop RESTful web services on the Java platform.

Required knowledge: This presentation is aimed at Enterprise Java developers with knowledge and/or experience with web development. REST will be introduced from the basis, so no prior knowledge is required.

Location: InfoSupport Veenendaal
Dinner: 18:00
Start presentation: 19:00
End presentation: ca. 21:00
Registration deadline: 27th of March

Entrance fee: 15 Euro*
Account number:
Clara Ko
Amsterdam
47.98.56.796
Comment: Duchess Rest Event

* This amount is only to cover the running Duchess expenses, the event and the dinner are completely sponsored by InfoSupport.

Duchess REST Workshop
Het volgende Duchess evenement komt er weer aan. Ditmaal is het onderwerp REST, gepresenteerd door Paul Bakker van InfoSupport.

REST is nou typisch zo’n onderwerp waar iedereen het over lijkt te hebben, terwijl velen eigenlijk niet weten wat het is en hoe het werkt. In deze presentatie wordt een inleiding gegeven op het concept achter RESTful web services, wordt er uitgelegd wat de verschillen zijn met traditionele, RPC-achtige, web services en wordt er gekeken naar wat de voordelen eigenlijk zijn van REST. Nadat de basis concepten van RESTful web services zijn besproken wordt er gekeken naar hoe je services kunt ontwikkelen volgens een Resource Oriented Architecture, een architectuur gebaseerd op RESTful web services. Natuurlijk met volop code voorbeelden. Ook wordt er aandacht besteed aan JAX-RS, de nieuwe API die onderdeel van Java EE 6 zal zijn en mogelijkheden biedt om RESTful web services op het Java platform te ontwikkelen.

Voorkennis: Deze presentatie is gericht op Enterprise Java ontwikkelaars die kennis en/of ervaring hebben met web development. REST wordt vanaf de basis geïntroduceerd, voorkennis van REST is daarom niet nodig.

Locatie: InfoSupport Veenendaal
Diner: 18:00
Aanvang presentatie: 19:00
Eind presentatie: ca. 21:00
Registratie deadline: 27 Maart

Entree: 15 Euro*
Rekeningnummer:
Clara Ko te Amsterdam
47.98.56.796
Kenmerk: Duchess Rest Event

* Dit bedrag is enkel om de lopende kosten voor Duchess te dekken, het evenement en diner zijn volledig gesponsord door InfoSupport.

So we’ve already heard some talks by people who might be considered gurus in our line of work. But we all have our own stories to tell as well. They might not fill up two hours and they might not have the same level of quality. That doesn’t mean we don’t want to hear those stories as well. Stories on how you struggled with some technique or framework that promised to be oh so easy to work with. Stories on how some particular company was succeeding where nobody else did, or about how horribly they failed. Anything you think might be worth sharing with us.
The presentation doesn’t have to be long, anywhere in between fifteen minutes and half an hour will do. We’ll follow it up with room for discussion and have about two to three presentations in a meeting, depending on the date we’ll hold it on. And if there is not enough discussion to fill up the entire meeting? (Unlikely as it seems.) We’ll simply discuss other things over a drink.
If you think you have a much longer presentation, then of course those are welcome too, but we’ll probably pick another date for it, so you’ll have the entire meeting for yourself.
So let us know if you have anything you’d like to talk about. Please just post comments to this post in the following format if you have anything, so we can append it to this post.

Host – Subject – Level*
Linda van der Pal – Starting with Maven – Beginner

* Possible levels are Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

P.S. We don’t have a location just yet, but it will be somewhere in the Netherlands