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October 26, 2015 to October 28, 2015 – RAI Did you know OSCON is coming to Amsterdam this year? It's just a little more than a week away. You'll find a whole new set of speakers with an entirely different range of subjects from OSCON in Portl… Organized by O'Reilly Media | Type: conference
October 27, 2015 from 5:30pm to 8pm – UF Hilton The next meeting of your North Central Florida chapter of AITP will be held this Tuesday evening, October 27, at the UF Hilton and will feature Martin Smith of Rackspace presenting "Streaming Video o… Organized by Michael Lucas | Type: technology, presentation
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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This week's Java roundup for May 12th, 2025 features news highlighting: the GA releases of LangChain4j 1.0, Eclipse Vert.x 5.0 and Spring Data 2025.0.0; the May 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; second release candidates for Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibernate Reactive 3.0; and the first beta release of Hibernate Search 8.0.
By Michael RedlichMark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Azure, delved in a recent talk at Rust Nation UK into the factors driving Rust adoption, providing concrete examples of Rust usage in Microsoft products, and detailing ongoing efforts to accelerate the migration from C/C++ to Rust at Microsoft by leveraging generative AI.
By Bruno CouriolOpenAI has launched Codex, a research preview of a cloud-based software engineering agent designed to automate common development tasks such as writing code, debugging, testing, and generating pull requests. Integrated into ChatGPT, Codex runs each assignment in a secure sandbox environment preloaded with the user's codebase and configured to reflect their development setup.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiWindsurf has introduced its first set of SWE-1 models, aimed at supporting the full range of software engineering tasks, not limited to code generation. The lineup consists of three models SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini, each designed for specific scenarios.
By Daniel DominguezThis article demystifies what "Staff-Plus" expectations actually look like, drawing on real promotion and performance reviews experiences. It maps out career ladders, digs into promotion patterns and the key behaviors that consistently help high-performing engineers to reinvent themselves, and introduces the concept of "staff projects" which top performers use to drive their careers forward.
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