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Hello Duchesses,

This 4rd Duchess newsletter is to announce our upcoming events, general announcements and recap our past events.

Table of Contents

• Event: Duchess dinner after J-Fall – November 12, 2008
• Event: Duchess Talk at Devoxx – December 10, 2008
• Announcement: One free Devoxx pass (university + conference) – December 8-12, 2008
• Event: Introduction to Agile by Michael Franken (AgileHolland) – January 20, 2008
• Announcement: Participation Fee
• Announcement: One Male Guest
• Recap: Spring event by Arjen Poutsma (SpringSource)
• Recap: Groovy & Grails event by Maarten Hoppen (VX Company)
• Announcement: Photos on Flickr

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On September 5th we had our first event: Introduction to Spring. The evening started a bit late due to heavy traffic, so most people were late. But we welcomed 9 ladies and had a wonderful Spanish buffet with several warm dishes, some bread and salad, sponsored by SpringSource.

After everybody had enough food, Arjen Poutsma gave a very interesting presentation about what he thought were the main reasons to use Spring. The attendees gave a lot of feedback. We discussed various uses of Spring in enterprise application. All in all it was a very inspiring evening. In the end all attendees received a SpringSource shirt and a DZone refcard for Spring configuration, which incidentally, you can download at the DZone website. You can also download the refcard Spring Annotations, which is the more current way of configuring Spring applications.

Hello Duchesses,

This 3rd Duchess newsletter is to announce and remind you about our upcoming events in the Netherlands.

Contents:

• Reminder: Spring Framework Event (September 5, 2008, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam)
• Groovy & Grails Workshop (October 9, 2008, VXCompany, Baarn)
• Seeking Donations

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We are pleased to announce our first technical event sponsored by SpringSource – the creators of Spring. This is a free event for Duchess members.

At this event, Arjen Poutsma will talk about:

• 5 (or so) Reasons to use Spring: a varied introduction to the Spring
  Framework, showing why you should use in your Java application.
• Spring Web Services: the portfolio project focussed on doing
  contract-first Web Service development.

This is meant for people with various levels of knowledge about Spring. There will be lots of examples and as interactive as possible.

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Hello Duchesses,

This Duchess newsletter is to announce upcoming events for after the summer in the Netherlands and the discount to JAOO in Denmark.

Contents:

• * Spring Framework Event (September 5, 2008, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam)
• * 15% discount for JAOO (September 28 – October 3, 2008 Aarhus, Denmark)
• * Recap: Our presentation at JBoss User Group meeting (June 20, 2008)

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