Codetown ::: a software developer's community
December 15, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm – The Lab Greetings All, You are invited to join us at the next GatorLUG meeting in beautiful (but way too cold ) Gainesville, Florida. We'll end a long year with a relaxed social meeting at The Laboratory.… Organized by Clint Collins | Type: user, group, meeting
February 23, 2012 from 6pm to 8:30pm – Orlando James Ward from Heroku will be presenting at the Orlando Java User Group. Session Description: Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java, Play! and Scala… Organized by James Ward | Type: orlando, java, user, group
May 14, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm – Santa Fe College Calling all Java lovers! Our May, 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 ex… Organized by Dan Lackey | Type: java, user, group, meeting, gatorjug, codetown
August 22, 2018 from 6pm to 7pm – Chicago 1871 In a world where everyone and their mother uses web development, a quiet grassroots movement is bringing back native development. Whether you're brand-new to coding, or you just have framework fatigu… Organized by Chicago GDG | Type: google, developer, group, 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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Capgemini's Steve Jones argues AI agents building apps in hours have killed the Agile Manifesto, as its human-centric principles don't fit agentic SDLCs. While Forrester reports 95% still find Agile relevant, Kent Beck proposes "augmented coding" and AWS suggests "Intent Design" over sprint planning. The debate: Is Agile dead, or evolving for AI collaboration?
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Kubernetes often reacts too late when traffic suddenly increases at the edge. A proactive scaling approach that considers response time, spare CPU capacity, and container startup delays can add or remove instances more smoothly, prevent sudden spikes, and keep performance stable on systems with limited resources.
By Rajeev Kallayil Ravi
Chrome 144 introduces the groundbreaking Temporal API, revolutionizing date and time management in JavaScript. As a modern alternative to the criticized Date object, Temporal resolves parsing ambiguities, time zone complexities, and mutable arithmetic. With distinct types and built-in support, it empowers developers to handle dates seamlessly, though adoption varies across browsers.
By Daniel Curtis
After 15 milestone releases, the Eclipse Foundation has released version 8.0 of GlassFish featuring support for virtual threads; enhanced application security; and improved data access. GlassFish 8.0 is a compatible implementation of Jakarta EE 11. Ondro Mihályi, Java Champion and co-founder of OmniFish, spoke to InfoQ about GlassFish 8.0.
By Michael Redlich
Luca Mezzalira shares a decision framework for micro-frontends, covering composition, routing, and communication. He explains how to structure "stream-aligned" teams and use a "tiger team" for foundational architecture. He also discusses the sociotechnical benefits of reducing external dependencies and shares how to use guardrails and discovery services to achieve 25+ deployments per day.
By Luca Mezzalira
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