Codetown ::: a software developer's community
October 25, 2017 to October 27, 2017 – Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando At the Rosen Shingle Creek, right here in Orlando. All about big data. "Join the biggest gathering of Pentaho experts, users, advocates, and thought-leaders to learn the best practices, use cases… Organized by Hitachi | Type: conference
November 14, 2017 to November 16, 2017 – Technopark Last Year Best Of DevOxx Morocco Organized by Badr | Type: conference
March 17, 2018 to March 18, 2018 – Orlando If you are into IT and in the Central Florida area, don't miss the 13th Annual Orlando CodeCamp, March 17 & 18. It is free and full of great sessions. http://www.orlandocodecamp.com #OrlandoCC Organized by | Type: conference
July 14, 2018 to July 15, 2018 – Portland, OR Organized by Jono Bacon | Type: conference
July 16, 2018 to July 19, 2018 – Oregon Convention Center Join us at OSCON -- O'Reilly Open Source Convention | July 16–19,2018 | Portland, Oregon OSCON brings together talented people from diverse backgrounds who are doing amazing things wit… Organized by O'Reilly | Type: conference
September 8, 2018 all day – Quito Hi all; We are organizing the Java Day Ecuador 2018 https://www.javaday.ec, Ecuador JUG is committed to creating a respectful and diverse community. For this reason, we have worked toward… Organized by Alberto Salazar | Type: conference
October 3, 2018 to October 5, 2018 – Amsterdam https://kotlinconf.com/speakers/ Organized by JetBrains | Type: conference
October 22, 2018 to October 25, 2018 – Moscone Convention Center Oracle Code One is the shiny new incarnation of Java One. It's not just Java anymore! It's Python, Go, R, and lots of other stuff you'll be happy to be a part of. The call for papers is clos… Organized by Oracle | Type: conference
October 23, 2020 to October 24, 2020 – Online A Java-focused conference from Belarus, @jfuturedev, now goes online and it means international! Join the event on October 23-24 from any part of the planet. Grab your early bird ticket at 17 EUR o… Organized by Space_ | Type: jvm, conference
September 29, 2025 at 6pm to October 1, 2025 at 7pm – Colorado Springs Marriott It's hard to believe, but we're in the last few weeks heading up to the dev2next 2025 conference. I'm eager to welcome speakers and attendees at the event. The Near Time Registrati… Organized by Venkat | Type: conference
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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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This week's Java roundup for December 15th, 2025, features news highlighting: the fifteenth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0; the first release candidate of Spring Shell 4.0; point releases of TornadoVM, Hibernate Reactive, Hibernate Search and Kotlin; the first beta release of WildFly 39; and maintenance releases of Micronaut Helidon and Vert.x.
By Michael Redlich
IBM Research has released CUGA (Configurable Generalist Agent) on Hugging Face Spaces, making its enterprise-oriented agent framework easier to evaluate with open models and real workflows. The move positions CUGA as a practical alternative to brittle, tightly coupled agent frameworks that often struggle with tool misuse, long-horizon reasoning, and recovery from failure.
By Robert Krzaczyński
AWS has released Amazon ECS Express Mode, bringing a simplified process to deploying containerised web applications and APIs. Express Mode lets users deploy production-ready services in one shot, bypassing the usual detail required around ancillary requirements such as IAM roles, load-balancers and scaling.
By Matt Saunders
Aaron Erickson at QCon AI NYC 2025 emphasized treating agentic AI as an engineering challenge, focusing on reliability through the blend of probabilistic and deterministic systems. He argued for clear operational structures to minimize risks and optimize performance, highlighting the importance of specialized agents and deterministic paths to enhance accuracy and control in AI workflows.
By Andrew Hoblitzell
Recently open-sourced by Google, Metrax is a JAX library providing standardized, performant metrics implementations for classification, regression, NLP, vision, and audio models.
By Sergio De Simone
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