Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Time: August 22, 2018 from 6pm to 7pm
Location: Chicago 1871
Street: 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza 12th Floor
City/Town: Chicago, IL
Website or Map: https://www.meetup.com/Google…
Event Type: google, developer, group, meetup
Organized By: Chicago GDG
Latest Activity: Aug 4, 2018
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 fatigue, native desktop development can be used to create internal solutions in lieu of needless/repetitive work across any industry. TornadoFX is so easy and fun to pick up anyone could get into coding while simultaneously automating solutions in their everyday work.
TornadoFX is a great way to start learning Kotlin without being bogged down by servers or mobile or web development. You're not required to know JavaFX to start native application development, and there's a plethora of material out there.
Come join us in creating a scheduling application for the neighborhood cat-sitter, who needs to keep track feeding up to 8 cats on any given day. Bring a laptop if you can!
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 Sergio De SimoneAmazon has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a PostgreSQL-compatible, serverless, and distributed database. The new managed service is designed to support active-active high availability and multi-region strong consistency.
By Renato LosioAWS has launched open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on GitHub to supercharge AI development within Amazon ECS, EKS, and Serverless environments. These specialized tools equip developers with real-time, context-specific insights, enhancing application deployment, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency. Empower your cloud experience today!
By Steef-Jan WiggersIn this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sergii Gorbachov, a staff engineer at Slack, about how they successfully used AI combined with traditional coding approaches to migrate 20,000 tests in 10 months, discovering that AI alone was insufficient and required human oversight and conventional tools to work effectively.
By Sergii GorbachovThe .NET team has released version 9.3 of .NET Aspire, introducing updates across diagnostics, integrations, and deployment workflows. As stated in the official announcement, this release aims to improve the developer experience by integrating GitHub Copilot into the Aspire dashboard, expanding tracing capabilities, and simplifying Azure deployments.
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