Codetown ::: a software developer's community
June 23, 2015 to June 26, 2015 – Portland Open Source Bridge is a software conference in Portland that equips you for the whole year with news and information to help you be the best developer you can be...and collaborate. Here's some info… Organized by Open Source Bridge | Type: conference
June 25, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – Canvs This month we'll meet again at Canvs. We had a fantastic time last month. Ken Krueger gave a great presentation on Spring Boot. Several new folks showed up. What a super venue. I wrote up a littl… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
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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Without a dedicated QA environment, teams faced tech and coordination issues when testing a distributed system. A slow, unmaintainable CLI led an organization to shift left with automated testing. They built a tool for versioned deployments using CI and proxy routing, enabling developers to run isolated tests on multiple versions to catch bugs earlier.
By Ben LindersMicrosoft announced in August 2025 that support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is generally available in Visual Studio. MCP enables AI agents within Visual Studio to connect to external tools and services via a consistent protocol.
By Edin KapićDeepSeek AI has developed DeepSeek-OCR, an open-source system that uses optical 2D mapping to compress long text passages. This approach aims to improve how large language models (LLMs) handle text-heavy inputs.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiCoral NPU is an open-source full-stack platform designed to help hardware engineers and AI developers overcome the limitations that prevent integrating AI in wearables and edge devices, including performance, fragmentation, and user trust.
By Sergio De SimoneLeander Vanderbijl explains how Kry navigated its scale-up phase to fix a complex, highly dependent "spiderweb" architecture. He shares the journey of applying Domain-Driven Design principles to group functionality and refactor existing services in situ, without stopping development. Key takeaways include moving from product-centric to functionality-centric design and using the FHIR model.
By Leander Vanderbijl
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