Liverpool UK JUG

How is the site run?

The site is kindly hosted by Symbian Diaries, part of the All About Symbian group of sites, which is dedicated to Symbian, the operating system for mobile phones and other consumer devices. Most Symbian devices run Java (usually J2ME MIDP 1.0, or occasionally PersonalJava) and we hope that this group will be very strong in this area.

The blog software is Moveable Type: yes it's written in Perl, but we're not bigots... In any case, it works well, is free, and it's the software provided by Symbian Diaries!

The email mailing list is provided by Topica.

Bookshops for IT books

• Waterstones, Bold Street Good selection of computer books, including Java.
• Bluecoats, School Lane This oasis just off Church street houses a gallery, cafe, art shops and other cultural amenities, as well as a discount bookshop which has a surprisingly good, cheap, if somewhat random, IT section.
• News From Nowhere, Bold Street Though the selection of computer books isn't massive, the ordering service is good, and you get the warm fuzzy glow of buying your books from a non-profit making collective.
• Borders, Ellesmere Port (Cheshire Oaks) Out of town retail park. A nice big Borders bookshop with a huge IT book section.
• University bookshop...

Mailing list

To subscribe to the discussion list, please send a blank email to [email protected].

Topica, our mailing list hosts, will try to persuade you to register with their service online. It's quite good, but you don't actually need to register online to take part in this discussion list.

Contact us

To contact us, either:

• email Mark Hobson or Hakim Cassimally
• leave a comment to this entry.
• Join the discussion list by emailing [email protected] to contact all of us...
• ... or join the announcement only list [email protected] to just get emails about events, meetings etc.

When/where are meetings held?

We will meet on the third Wednesday of every month in central Liverpool (Venue to be determined).

Meetings may include some technical content (talks or demonstrations) but will also be social. More details will appear on the website near the date of the meeting.

Java community sites

• javablogs.com A simple but effective idea. It's a more or less free for all aggregator for people with Java blogs. Sounds boring? But it's a genuine community full of bloggers controversies, rants, reviews, and interesting thoughts.
• Artima buzz Inspired by javablogs, a set of blog aggregators focusing on areas of technology (including Java, J2ME, J2EE).
• javajunkies.org Based on the popular Perl site perlmonks, this is so far an underused site, with a lot of potential.
• java.net Sun's (rather belated) Java community site. It's big, complex, and rather corporate, but has a lot of useful stuff and some great resources for hosting your own Java projects. In particular, it's being touted as an alternative to sourceforge.net for hosting Java specific projects.
• The Server Side. Community site focused on Enterprise Java.
• javalobby.org

O'Reilly Java sites

java.oreilly.com: Most of the books featured have sample chapters for download.

ONJava.com: OreillyNet site for Java.

Free Java Books

Free books . Can't say fairer than that

• http://www.mindview.net/Books
• www.javaranch.com
• http://www.netbeans.org/about/index.html
• IBM ...Don't forget to check out their onlineJava tutorials: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/
• Supporting site for Java for the world Wide Web www.dori.com
• Supporting site forTeach Yourself Java in 21 Days http://www.cadenhead.org/book/21java
• The Daddy of them all: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/win32.html
• http://www.middleware-company.com/
• http://www.debreuil.com/docs/ch01_Intro.htm
• Liverpool University's Java Course http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frans/COMP101/comp101.html

Free book chapters

• http://www.osborne.com
• http://javaboutique.internet.com/
• http://maththinking.com/boat/javaBooks.html

Is this group only about Java ?

The group's main focus is Java. But members in the group are interested in Macromedia Flash, Perl, HTML, Symbian, Javascript, and other technologies.

We want the group to be sociable and informal: if members want to talk about other technologies, then that's cool too! We'll also accept reasonable off-topic posts and discussions on the mailing list etc. And it would be interesting to have (short) talks about other technologies (especially controversial ones like "Why Visual Basic.net is better than Java", or "Static typing sucks" ;->).

Welcome to Liverpool UK Java User Group

Welcome to the is a the web-site for the Liverpool Java User Group.

We aim to be a social and technical group supporting Java programmers, users, and anyone interested in Java technology. The group is open to anyone, beginner or experts, hobbyist or professional.

We will meet on the third Wednesday of every month in central Liverpool
(The venue for each meeting will be announced on the website near the date).

Liverpool is well connected by rail links, and these meetings are open to anyone from Merseyside, Wirral, Chester, Manchester, and beyond.