BGJUG – Bulgarian Java User Group

Welcome!

The Bulgarian Java Users Group (BGJUG) is the World’s Java community representative in Bulgaria. The Java Users Groups are local organizations all around the world, which unites various groups of specialists, who are strongly interested in the Java-related technologies. Java Users Groups organize regular formal and informal meetings, conferences and seminars, on which they gather their members in order to exchange information related to Java. Usually, BGJUG members organize seminars and discussions monthly. The invitations for the events are published on this site, in the section “Events“. The materials (such as presentations and demos), created by BGJUG members are collected and stored in the BulgarianJUG youtube

A Bit of History

The first oficial meeting of the Bulgarian JUG took place on 26th of September 2007. Group’s chairman/coordinator is Petar Tahchiev. Since 12th of October 2007 BGJUG maintains mailing list, where are considered questions and problems from the Java World, ideas for future seminars and topics related to the Java-community in Buglaria as well. The mailing list is accessible on the following URL: http://groups.google.com/group/bg-jug. At the same time had been created the BGJUG’s first site, but its maintenance was discontinued after a few months. On 28th of July 2011 was created the current site, which aim is to represent the group in the Internet and to serve as an information board for meetings organisations. The site aggregates the posts from the group’s members’ blogs related somehow to Java. On the 23rd of September 2011 was created a Twitter account of The BGJUG, which main aim is to represent us in Twitter. It will be used also for sharing news, announcements for meetings and seminars, i.e. everything which concerns BGJUG activities. In 2014 a jPrime conference was created as a huge premium conference organized by the Bulgarian Java User Group. You can find more about it on the dedicated website of jPrime https://jprime.io. A close after that we started making jProfessionals as a more local yearly conference, this conference was held first in 2015 and happens not only in Sofia, but in Plovdiv as well. In 2016 one of our members Nayden Gochev also started making Java Beer events on monthly bases. This still happens and you can check for such events on www.java.beer

The JUG team

Ivan St. Ivanov is development architect at SAP Labs Bulgaria, working in the HANA Cloud Platform performance team. He is active JUG member, driving the adoption of OpenJDK in Bulgaria. In his free time he likes contributing to open source software, mostly to JBoss Forge. Ivan is doing his PhD in the area of cloud multi-tenancy in the University of National and World Economy in Sofia. He is teaching Java, Java EE and SOA in three Universities in Sofia.
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Mihail is a security and software consultant, trainer and author. His resume includes projects in companies like Saudi Aramco, Boeing, HP, Siemens, USAF, several foreign banks and government entities. Mihail is the co-author of 6 books on software, and has 10 years of training experience in local and foreign companies and most of the local universities.
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Nayden Gochev is Solution Architect and Software Contractor with with more than 15 years of experience. Developer, Trainer and consultant in many international companies and Bulgarian companies. He took part in many conferences, seminars, technical trainings in multiple academic and non academic structures and companies. One of the organizers of jPrime and jProfessionals conferences and the monthly Bulgarian Java User Group seminars, the main driver of the java beer events (www.java.beer). Huge Java fan with love for all *.java and big community supporter. His personal blog is no longer active, but some posts can be found at http://dev.to/gochev
Martin is a Java enthusiast. He is a graduate of Computer Science from the University of Sofia. He is also a certified Java professional (SCJP6) and a certified IBM cloud computing solution advisor. His areas of interest include the wide range of Java-related technologies (such as Servlets, JSP, JAXB, JAXP, JMS, JMX, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, Hibernate, Spring Framework, Liferay Portal and Eclipse RCP), cloud computing technologies, cloud-based software architectures, enterprise application integration, relational and NoSQL databases. You can reach him for any Java and FOSS-related topics (especially Eclipse and the OpenJDK).
http://martin-toshev.com/
Dmitry is a passionate Java developer. Through his 8+ years career he has gained a huge experience with different web technologies. His areas of interest include the wide range of Java-related technologies, enterprise solutions, cloud computing technologies, Eclipse plug-ins, as well as non-Java like NodeJs and NoSql. He’s big enthusiast of distributed multinational, multi location software development. At his free time he’s trying to contribute to OpenJDK and supports his own opensource project. His latest passion is Oracles Javascript runtime on JVM – Nashorn.
Doychin Bondzhev is Java developer with experience in many technologies. His work includes software for different businesses like telecommunications, warehouse management, point of sale, service management, billing , service provisioning, customer support, banking and many more. In his free time he contributes to some Open Source projects. He is a big fan of JavaEE and Microprofile.

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jProfessionals 22.11.2015 agenda is now available

  The Agenda for 22.11 is: 09:00 – 09:50 – Coffee & Registration 09:50 – 10:00 – Welcome & Introduction 10:00 – 11:00 – “Jenkins 2.0: workflow, containers, and beyond!” by Kohsuke Kawaguchi 11:10 – 12:10 – “I will share my experience while researching JMH.” by Vlado Tsanev 12:10 – 13:00 – Lunch break 13:00 – 14:00 – “HTTP/2” by Svetlin Nakov 14:10 – 15:10 – “Grails for bored Java developers” by Emil Doychev 15:10 – 15:30 – Coffee break 15:30 – 16:30 – “Migrating Swing Application to JavaFX and JavaFX on mobile” by Doychin Bondzhev 16:40 – 17:40 – “High Performance Reactive Programming with JAVA 8 – Reactor & RxJava” by Trayan Iliev   See you there... read more

Bulgarian JUG at Java2Days

As always, the Bulgarian Java community will have exciting times during the autumn. After the successful first edition of the jPrime conference, the rockstars from the industry will be visiting our country between 2nd and 4th November for Java2Days. This will be the 7th edition of the conference. More than 70 sessions given by more than 60 speakers are expected. There will be tracks for experts, experienced specialists, beginners and kids; Free track; hands-on-labs; demo and relax zone and more. We are happy to announce that the Bulgarian JUG will as always take active part in the event. We got a few of our talks accepted: “Where do we go after Http 1.1 – Http2”, by Mihail Stoynov “Writing Java stored procedures in Oracle Database 12c” and “Spring RabbitMQ integration”, by Martin Toshev “Action based MVC in Java EE? Yes, we do!”, hands on lab by Nayden Gochev and Ivan St. Ivanov We are even happier that our user group will get its booth next to Vitosha hall in Inter Expo Center. There you’ll have the chance to meet us and hear about our future plans and initiatives. As well as do a lot of hacking. Our big idea is to complete the JBoss Forge addon for Spring Boot that we started this summer. See you at... read more

jProfessionals Conference, 22.11.2015, COMPLETELY FREE

We would like to invite you to a new conference. The stage is yours! The name of the conference will be jProfessionals, it is meant to be a local Bulgarian conference with mostly, but not only, Bulgarian speakers. You will have a full day of different Java related topics and its first edition will be on 22nd of November in Sofia. The conference will be fully community driven, its sponsors will be basically every Bulgarian Java User Group sponsor for 2015 (SAP Labs, EPAM, Luxoft, Trader.bg, Questers, Verint Systems and TechHuddle). This will not be an annual conference, instead we plan to make mini conference like that every 3-4 months! So if you want to give it a try as a speaker or if you want to propose a nice topic, but you are not sure about the interest and scared from the big stage like jPrime, then this conference is for you! The talks slots depend on you! You can speak the regular 45 minutes or you can speak 1 hour and 15 minutes if you like. Just let us know how much time you need (between 0:45h and 1:30h). You can submit your talk at BG JUG CFP page https://jug.bg/submit-a-talk/ . Just add in the description the talk duration with the description and specify that this is for jProfessionals and not for the regular monthly JUG seminars. Lets make a bigger and better Java community, lets meet, lets talk, lets discuss and make 22th of November an awesome Sunday. Register Now : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jprofessionals-10-tickets-19026879910 When: 22th of November, 2015 Where: Hotel Vitosha, Sofia, Bulgaria P.S. We may need some help at the day of the conference. If you want to help just send... read more

High Performance Java event

Techtalks.bg is organising an event on java performance. Guests will be Kirk Pepperdine (some of our jug members met him at jCrete 2015), William Louth, Kees Jan and Izzet Mustafayev. Date: 10th October, 2015 Location: Rainbow Plaza, Sofia. Discount: 50TT for 50%... read more

Official Facebook Group of the Bulgarian Java User Group

We are trying to resurrect the old facebook group we had for the “Bulgarian Java User Group”. You can join here https://www.facebook.com/groups/19635702600/ ( around 100 members currently) Update: Facebook killed our group ! Not kidding the facebook group doesnt exist anymore. Facebook decided to remove it without any information why, because of that we officially DON’T have facebook group, also we do not have google+ or linkedin group. if you want to join our group use google mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bg-jug thats the only official channel to contact BG JUG and to be part of BG JUG. We do spam in Java Developers Bulgaria facbeook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/javabg/ but this group is NOT... read more

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