Codetown ::: a software developer's community
March 25, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Santa Fe Community College Room S-326 We'll have a presentation on Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald. Developing Modular Web Applications with Spring 3.0 Spring is a robust open-source technology for building and running sophisticated… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
March 25, 2009 to April 2, 2009 – Chicago PyCon is a conference for the Python community, organized by members of the Python community. PyCon is for Python enthusiasts of all experience levels, from new users to core developers. PyCon gives… Organized by Pythonistas | Type: conference
March 19, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Urban Flats Our next meeting will be this Thursday, March 19th, and we'll have a presentation from Voxeo. Voxeo is a local company which creates enterprise Voice over IP services, and they've invited us down to… Organized by Gregg Pollack | Type: meeting
March 18, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm – Gainesville Announcing the 4th Annual Codeslinger Shootout! On March 18, 2009 you are invited to test your fast thinking and programming skills at the GatorLUG meeting. You could win the coveted title of "Faste… Organized by GatorLUG | Type: contest
March 10, 2009 at 8am to March 11, 2009 at 5pm – Cobb Galleria Center Welcome to the 2009 developer conference brought to you by the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG) What? Atlanta’s most exciting conference for professional software developers is back in 2009! Come dis… Organized by Atlanta JUG | Type: conference
March 6, 2009 from 8am to 5pm – Hurricane100 Room, BankUnited Center With a list of some of the top speakers from the top companies in Flex and AIR development, Flex Camp Miami is a great event for anyone interested in Adobe Flex and AIR. For more information on purch… Organized by Brian Rinaldi | Type: conference
March 2, 2009 to March 6, 2009 – Mindview HQ The JavaPosse Roundup is a small gathering of Java codeslingers in a mountain town called Crested Butte, way out West in Colorado. Your hosts are The Java Posse and Bruce Eckel. Join them and explore… Organized by Mindview, Inc | Type: conference
February 26, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry University, Room 114 - capacity 20! An introduction to the functional Clojure programming language will be given. Clojure is a new, cleaned-up Lisp dialect with powerful unhygienic macros, seamless Java interoperability, various data s… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting and presentation
February 25, 2009 to February 27, 2009 – MindView HQ The Flex Jam is "An Exploration of Flex & AIR Programming". It's a MindView event. There's an book you may want to check out in advance of the Jam - it's called "First Steps in Flex". And, there'… Organized by MindView - Bruce Eckel | Type: jam
February 11, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Santa Fe Community College, room S318 Eric Lavigne will give a presentation on Clojure. Clojure abstract Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, c… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting and presentation
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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.
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Discovered by FutureSearch researcher Callum McMahon, a supply chain attack against LiteLLM on PyPI resulted in over 40 thousand downloads of a compromised version that installed a malicious payload capable of harvesting and exfiltrating sensitive information. LiteLLM is downloaded roughly 3 million times per day.
By Sergio De Simone
Paul Duvall recently discussed his library of engineering patterns for AI assisted development and practices that ground high quality delivery. Related discussions from Paul Stack and Gergely Orosz highlight a shift toward remixing and specification driven development.
By Rafiq Gemmail
Dan Fike and Shawna Martell explain how "hidden decisions" silently shape software architecture and engineering culture. By examining the invisible defaults behind CI/CD bottlenecks, platform complexity, and misaligned metrics, they share frameworks for leading with intentionality. Learn to identify the "decision behind the decision" to better incentivize high-performing teams and careers.
By Shawna Martell, Dan Fike
As adoption of Kubernetes autoscalers like Karpenter accelerates, a new set of platform-agnostic observability practices is emerging, shifting focus from traditional infrastructure metrics to deeper insights into provisioning behavior, scheduling latency, and cost efficiency.
By Craig Risi
TanStack Start has introduced a import protection, which aims to prevent server and client code from being mixed in full-stack React applications. This Vite plugin automatically checks imports during development and build processes. It blocks harmful imports by file naming conventions or explicit markers, enhancing security and reducing bugs without requiring additional developer input.
By Daniel Curtis
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