Codetown ::: a software developer's community
July 25, 2013 from 6pm to 7pm – DeVry University Folks, I'll be at OSCON...then out of town for the Aug meeting as well. See you in Sept! Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
September 26, 2013 from 6pm to 7pm – DeVry University Hello OrlandoJUG This is a reminder that the September OJUG has been cancelled - see you next month! Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
October 24, 2013 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry University Yes, we are having a meeting! I am in town and the kind folks accommodated us at DeVry, so BE THERE! Loads of stuff to talk about, like this fine article by our compadre Matt Raible: http://www.inf… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
November 14, 2013 from 6pm to 8pm – DeVry University Join us for a presentation entitled "Introduction to Spring Batch" with Chris Schaefer. In this presentation we will take a high level look at the Spring Batch project. This presentation is ideal fo… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
February 20, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry University Join us for a Clojure talk by Tapestry author Howard Lewis Ship. Thanks to Consultis for Pizza and Cambridge Web Design for organization. Here's a little about what Howard plans to cover: "Clojure… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
March 27, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry University Calling all Java lovers! Our March 2014 meeting is coming up. Please RSVP, spread the word and invite a friend. Join us and keep your skills sharp. Network and find new projects and people for your e… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
April 24, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry University Hello OrlandoJUG! Ken was unexpectedly called away and has to be out of town on this date, so we are going to cancel this meeting and wait until next month to meet. Stay tuned! We have an exciting p… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
August 20, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – DeVry University This month we have a special guest: Carol McDonald will join us and give a presentation on Apache Spark! And, we're backing up our usual meeting day to the third Thursday instead of the fourth Thurs… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: jug, meeting
August 20, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – DeVry University This month we're going to have a combined meeting with the OrlandoJUG in Orlando. Carol McDonald will join us and give a presentation on Apache Spark. You won't want to miss it! Here are the details:… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: jug, meeting
February 25, 2016 from 6pm to 8pm – DeVry University Hello OrlandoJUG! Jackie wasn't able to make it to this meeting, so we're going to table this month's meeting. If you have a great topic to present or know a presenter, please let me know and I'll… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
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The recently released Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) aims to be a schema-aware alternative to JSON that significantly reduces token consumption at a similar level of accuracy. While the existence and importance of token saved depend on the data shape. some benchmarks show TOON may use in some cases 40% fewer tokens than JSON, possibly resulting in LLM and inference cost savings.
By Bruno Couriol
The Allen Institute for AI has unveiled Olmo 3, an open-source language model family that empowers developers with full access to the model lifecycle, from training datasets to checkpoints. Featuring reasoning-focused variants and robust tools for post-training modifications, Olmo 3 promotes transparency, experimentation, and community collaboration, driving innovations in AI.
By Robert Krzaczyński
Nexla recently introduced Express, a conversational data engineering platform designed to dramatically lower the barrier for building data pipelines for AI applications.
By Craig Risi
Cloudflare’s recent global outage, linked to a database update, caused widespread disruption and highlighted the risks of single-vendor reliance. While service was restored, the incident sparked discussions on the importance of multi-vendor strategies in tech. Cloudflare's CEO vowed to enhance system resilience, emphasizing that outages can impact even the largest providers.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Grafana Labs has published major updates across two of its core observability products: Grafana 12.3, and Grafana Tempo 2.9. The two releases have distinct improvements in monitoring, logs, and tracing for Grafana users.
By Matt Saunders
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