Codetown ::: a software developer's community
January 5, 2009 at 6pm – TBA Learn about new features in the NEW 5.1 release of MySQL, talk about any challenges you are facing with MySQL, and give feedback directly to developers. Discuss SQL generalities, or storage-engine sp… Organized by Chad Miller | Type: Meeting
December 20, 2008 at 1pm – MindComet Our next meetup is planned for Saturday, December 20, 2008, 1-3 PM at MindComet's offices. Note that this will only be a 2-hour (1-topic) meeting. Directions to MindComet's Headquarters in Altamonte… Organized by Joe, Mike and Andrew | Type: Meeting
December 17, 2008 at 6pm – Virtually Cuban GatorLUG Meeting Agenda for December 17, 2008 6:00 - 6:20 Announcements / General Discussion 6:20 - 6:40 10 min. Lightning talk segments on any Linux-related topic 6:40 - 7:45: Presentation - The… Organized by Clint Collins | Type: Meeting
December 17, 2008 at 6pm – Woody's River Roo Its Cigar Night at the SunJUG. We'll be meeting at Woody's River Roo. on the Manatee River in Ellenton. No presentations. No sponsors. just Cigars, Booze , and general debauchery. Java talk is optio… Organized by Sarasota Java Users Group | Type: Cigar, Night
December 16, 2008 at 6:30pm – Wing House Once again, it’s that time to close out another successful JUG year! We’ve seen everything from Hibernate, Grid Computing, to Flex. This last meeting is just Wings and Beer. I know it’s (really) last… Organized by Vlad Vivien | Type: Wings, and, Beer, Holiday, Party
December 1, 2008 at 6pm to December 4, 2008 at 6pm – Westin Hotel SpringOne America 2008, formerly The Spring Experience, is the conference for the Spring community. This one-of-a-kind event is tailored for application developers, solution architects, and project m… Organized by SpringSource | Type: Conference
December 1, 2008 at 2pm to December 4, 2008 at 3pm – Orange County Convention Center The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, Industry, Academia and various Government agencies in pursuit of impro… Organized by http://iitsec.org/ | Type: Conference
November 20, 2008 at 6pm – Devry University, Room 106 My name is Zemian Deng, and I do software design and development using Java. One recent project I'm involved with is to evaluate Mule (http://mulesource.org) as an integration platform. I would like… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: Meeting
November 19, 2008 at 6pm – Dave and Buster's Presentations Wait-Time Based Oracle Performance Management (45 minutes) There are many ways to use Oracle wait events for performance tuning of an Oracle database, but often there is confusion on e… Organized by Jay O'Leary | Type: meeting
November 18, 2008 at 6:30pm – GCA Technologies Solution This month, we have an exiting meeting planned. For our November gathering (*** TUESDAY the 18th ***), we will explore web development using the Grails web framework. For those not familiar with Grai… Organized by Vladimir Vivien | Type: Workshop
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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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