Around about 9:30ish, don’t you begin to crave a little something sweet to get you through the rest of the morning? Perhaps washed down with some hot java and accompanied by a little chit chat? If that’s you (and isn’t it all of us?!?) than it’s time to consume a few extra calories for a good cause…that’s right, you have our permission to eat sweets!!! Why? Because you’re invited to the 4th Annual: ETTORE’S COFFEE BREAK! Come join your friends and our Emcee, Ms. Kitty O’Neal, for some luscious Ettore pastries and Peerless coffee, enjoy the Big Band Sounds of the Rotary Rooters, hear John & Morgan Finegan sing “Sugar, Sugar” and witness the first ever Strawberry Dipping & Decorating conte

Sacramento is home to a flourishing development community and tonight's presentation at the The Sacramento Groovy User's by Ed Gibbs will be discussing the latest Behavior Driven Development tool, Spock.  This is a workshop open to the public and meant for technologists interested in the latest inovations for building quality software. Ed's description: Spock: The Search for an Intelligent Spec Spock (http://code.google.com/p/spock/) is a Groovy based Behavior Driven Development (BDD) library. Never heard of BDD? Still writing unit tests in JUnit 3? Come learn what literate tests are about. This talk includes a number of demos and hands on labs requiring minimal setup. You can even try

The Sacramento Groovy Users (SacGRU) is a professional association of software developers.  The group discusses the Groovy programming language and all it's frameworks, libraries and technologies.  Founded in December of 2008, the group meets the 1st Thursday of every month.  Please see the group's website at http://sacgru.com for details such as meeting time and place. Tonight the group will be meeting at The Sacramento Press (yes this Sacramento Press) on the corner of 5th and H Street in downtown Sacramento at 6:30.  The presentation will be "An Introduction to the Grails Framework".