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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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Google has released MedGemma, a pair of open-source generative AI models designed to support medical text and image understanding in healthcare applications. Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, the models are available in two configurations: MedGemma 4B, a multimodal model capable of processing both images and text, and MedGemma 27B, a larger model focused solely on medical text.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiAt its annual developer conference, Build 2025, Microsoft introduced a set of updates focused on expanding the role of AI agents across Windows, GitHub, Azure, and Microsoft 365.
By Daniel DominguezLearn how to design resilient event-driven systems that scale. Explore key patterns like shuffle sharding and decoupling queues to handle load spikes and failures. Understand common pitfalls like over-relying on retries and neglecting observability for robust, scalable architectures.
By Rajesh Kumar PandeyIn this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Emerson Murphy-Hill about how measuring developer productivity is tricky, why team dynamics and psychological safety matter more than things like meeting load, the impact of systemic bias and how new AI tools are shaping equity in engineering - sometimes helping, but sometimes risking new kinds of unfairness.
By Emerson Murphy-HillBroadcom recently launched Spring Boot 3.5 and various projects and is working on Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 for November 2025. Broadcom’s Sébastien Deleuze, Spring Framework Core Committer, and Michael Minella, Director of the Open-Source Support Spring team, answered questions on the Java AOT cache, libraries with JSpecify null safety, and changes to the Spring support policy.
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