Codetown ::: a software developer's community
June 10, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – First Magnitude Brewing This month we'll meet at First Magnitude Brewery and have a relaxed "Open Spaces" style meeting. What is Open Spaces? That's inspired by the formal Open Spaces approach where the subjects that are mo… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
July 8, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – First Magnitude Brewing It looks like we're going to have another social meeting at First Magnitude. I just got back from www.solidcon.com, so I'll have a lot to report. I know several of you are working on new projects. It… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
June 21, 2017 from 6pm to 8pm – First Magnitude Brewing Come join the Gator Linux Users Group & talk about Linux & Open Source for a June social meeting at the First Magnitude Brewery on S. Main St. Location: 1220 Se Veitch St, Gainesville, FL Ma… Organized by Martin Smith | Type: meetup
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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.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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By Anurag Kale
This week's Java roundup for March 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of JDK 26; LibericaJDK 26; the March 2026 edition of the Payara Platform; the first milestone release of GlassFish 9.0; a point release of Micronaut; and introducing ClawRunr, a new Java-based personal AI assistant created by JobRunr.
By Michael Redlich
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By Sergio De Simone
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By Steef-Jan Wiggers
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of March 16th, 2026, highlighting the third milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Integration, Spring AI and Spring AMQP; along with the second milestone releases of Spring Data and Spring for Apache Kafka.
By Michael Redlich
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