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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The Gradio team has released Daggr, a new open-source Python library designed to simplify the construction and debugging of multi-step AI workflows. Daggr allows developers to define workflows programmatically in Python while automatically generating a visual canvas that exposes intermediate states, inputs, and outputs for each step in the pipeline.
By Robert Krzaczyński
In this article, the author diagnoses common failures in ML initiatives, including weak problem framing and the persistent prototype-to-production gap. The piece provides practical, experience-based guidance on setting clear business goals, treating data as a product, and aligning cross-functional teams for reliable, production-ready ML delivery.
By Wenjie ZiErica Pisani, host of the Performance and Sustainability track at QCon London 2025, reflects on lessons from assembling the track and from attending the talks. She touches on the importance of the environmental and social aspects of software and hints at how developers can improve them through small steps in the architecture and practices of software development.
By Erica Pisani
OpenAI's Open Responses standardizes agentic AI workflows, tackling API fragmentation and enabling seamless transitions between proprietary and open-source models. Supported by partners like Hugging Face and Vercel, this specification enhances reasoning visibility and tool execution, streamlining complex workflows and boosting productivity for developers. Empower your AI integration today!
By Hien Luu
A Cloudflare blog post claiming a "production-grade" Matrix homeserver on Workers didn't survive community scrutiny. Missing federation, incomplete encryption, and TODO comments in authentication logic pointed to unreviewed AI output. Matrix's Matthew Hodgson welcomed the effort but noted the implementation "doesn't yet constitute a functional Matrix server."
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
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