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Time: April 17, 2010 to April 18, 2010
Location: Suncoast Polytechnical High School
Street: 4650 Beneva Road
City/Town: Sarasota, FL 34233
Website or Map: http://bcsrq.com
Event Type: free, community, event, 2-day
Organized By: BarCamp Sarasota and You Might be a Techie, LLC
Latest Activity: Mar 26, 2010
BarCamp Sarasota is a group of entrepreneurial professionals with interests in technology, new media, film, green tech, education, and economic development. An "un-conference" implements the concept that the best learning at any conference takes place while networking between scheduled sessions.
Stan Schultes has decided to hide the list of guests.
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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You can find your way through an organization by figuring out what artifacts people leave behind, David Grizzanti mentioned at InfoQ Dev Summit Boston. He compared culture to anthropology, suggested studying behaviors, power dynamics, and decisions first, and then patiently model and reward new norms, build allies, and use influence and leading by example, to shift engineering culture over time.
By Ben Linders
At QCon London 2026, Jeff Smith discussed the growing mismatch between AI coding models and real-world software development. While AI tools are enabling developers to generate code faster than ever, Smith argued that the models themselves are increasingly “stale” because they lack the repository-specific knowledge required to produce production-ready contributions.
By Daniel Dominguez
Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks, including 14 high-severity bugs, as nearly 20% of all critical Firefox vulnerabilities were fixed in 2025. The AI also wrote working exploits for two bugs, demonstrating emerging capabilities that give defenders a temporary advantage but signal an accelerating arms race in cybersecurity.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
The Azure Kubernetes Service team shared a detailed guide on how to use Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) with NVIDIA vGPU technology on AKS. his update improves control and efficiency for shared GPU use in AI and media tasks.
By Claudio Masolo
Microsoft has released the second preview of .NET 11, featuring native OpenTelemetry tracing for ASP.NET Core, major Map control improvements and faster bindings in .NET MAUI, Blazor TempData support, a new Web Worker project template, and performance improvements across the runtime, SDK, and libraries.
By Almir Vuk
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