Codetown ::: a software developer's community
March 10, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm – Civic Media Center Join us for a presentation about Grails with Josh Davis: This presentation describes a simple way to build a working framework for a user portal. This framework is built upon some very popular fea… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
October 13, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm – Civic Media Center This month we welcome Eric Lavigne with an evening focused on jclouds: jclouds is an open source framework that helps you get started in the cloud and reuse your java and clojure development skills.… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
November 4, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm – Civic Media Center Hi Juggies! This is GatorJUG. I'm taking a break down here in the Swamp until January. There are lots of things I want to do: get some sun, eat some frogs, and do some quality basking. So, I hope yo… Organized by Michael Levin and Dan Lackey | Type: meeting
January 12, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – Civic Media Center Stay tuned for details! Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
February 9, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – Civic Media Center This month, Jim Clarke will give a talk on Embedded Java SE - JavaSE running on ARM, PowerPC, ATOM, and provide refreshments! Stay tuned for more details! Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
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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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Morgan Stanley engineers Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea showed how they're retooling the bank's API program for AI agents using MCP and FINOS CALM. Live demos covered compliance guardrails, deployment gates, and zero-downtime rollouts across 100+ APIs. First API deployment shrank from two years to two weeks. They also demoed Google's A2A protocol running alongside MCP.
By Steef-Jan WiggersChristine Lemmer-Webber, Executive Director at the Spritely Institute, and David Thompson, CTO at the Spritely Institute, presented “Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet” at QCon London 2026, where they discussed how Spritely works to decentralize the Internet with new foundational technologies that put users in control.
By Michael Redlich
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
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