Codetown ::: a software developer's community
October 27, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry Join us for an Open Spaces meeting this month, hosted by your JUG Leader, Mike. Open Spaces is a style of meeting in which everyone gets the chance to contribute. Mike has had many meaningful and enj… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
January 23, 2014 from 6pm to 7pm – DeVry We are skipping the OJUG meeting this month - catch up next month with a great presentation on Clojure! Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
May 22, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry Moving to Cloud Foundry from JEE, the PAAS Journey This session will go through the concept behind Platform As A Service (PAAS) and how Cloud Foundry works to make Java Development faster and more p… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
June 26, 2014 from 6pm to 7pm – DeVry No meeting tonight! See ya next time. Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
July 24, 2014 from 6pm to 8pm – DeVry Hello, OrlandoJUG! I'm going to cancel this month's meeting because I'll be in Portland for OSCON - the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. I'll have a lot to report, so stay tuned and we'll all get t… 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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Pair programming and continuous integration can go hand-in-hand. Pushing to main multiple times a day is hard in isolation, leading to delays, large PRs, and merge issues, Ola Hast and Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom mentioned in their talk about continuous delivery with pair programming at QCon London. Pairing enables instant code review, easier refactoring, fewer bugs, and higher team resilience.
By Ben LindersMicrosoft has released Azure Container Storage v2.0.0, introducing significant performance enhancements and architectural simplifications for stateful workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The release focuses on deeper NVMe integration, streamlined user experience, and expanded open-source availability, while removing all service fees beyond underlying storage costs.
By Claudio MasoloIBM Research has recently introduced Granite-Docling-258M, a new open-source vision-language model (VLM) designed for high-fidelity document-to-text conversion while preserving complex layouts, tables, equations, and lists.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiAs QCon San Francisco (Nov 17-21, 2025) approaches, the conference's program committee and track hosts are sharing their top picks from this year's lineup. Their selections span a wide range of topics, from AI-accelerated development and platform engineering to resilience patterns and career growth, all with QCon's signature focus on real-world case studies and lessons learned.
By Artenisa ChatziouTeena Idnani explains how to architect and build resilient event-driven distributed systems in a multi-cloud reality. Using a fictional bank's migration journey, she shares practical, code-level solutions for overcoming major challenges: managing cross-cloud latency, ensuring event ordering and consistency, building resilience by design, and preventing duplicate events.
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