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OK, reposting this to a more permanent home...If you're interested in Flex and live near Orlando, there's an Adobe Users Group here that meets the first Monday of each month at DeVry. The meetings…Continue
Tags: Orlando, group, users, flex, adobe
Started by Greg Groves. Last reply by Matthew Zimmer Oct 7, 2009.
Fred Sells did this presentation for the OrlandoJUG. Here's the writeup and I'll attach the source code to this discussion so we can work through it. Stay tuned for the code!"Flex is a (mostly) open…Continue
Tags: Orlandojug, Fred Sells, turbogears, python, flex
Started by Michael Levin Feb 4, 2009.
I'm working my way through "First Steps in Flex", by Bruce Eckel and James Ward. So far, I'm on the "Item Renderers" chapter. Of course, at this point I am already thinking about how I'm going to…Continue
Tags: tutorial, flex, deployment, webservers, programming
Started by Michael Levin Feb 1, 2009.
"First Steps in Flex", by Bruce Eckel and James Ward is an intro to Flex. The nice thing about this book is that you can be…Continue
Tags: webdev, tutorial, programming, eckel, books
Started by Michael Levin Feb 1, 2009.
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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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At QCon SF, a Stripe engineer presented the company's Zero-Downtime Data Movement Platform, a system enabling petabyte-scale database migrations with traffic switches that typically complete in milliseconds. The platform supports Stripe's infrastructure, handling 5 million database queries per second while maintaining 99.9995% reliability for $1.4 trillion in annual transactions.
By Eran Stiller
Developers on Apple platforms often face a fragmented ecosystem when using language models. Local models via Core ML or MLX offer privacy and offline capabilities, while cloud services like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini provide advanced features. AnyLanguageModel, a new Swift package, simplifies integration by offering a unified API for both local and remote models.
By Robert Krzaczyński
Following the much anticipated release of Spring Framework 7.0, there was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of November 17th, 2025, highlighting additional GA releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs and Spring Batch.
By Michael Redlich
Google Cloud recently introduced the preview of Bigtable tiered storage. The new feature allows developers to manage both hot and cold data within a single Bigtable instance, optimizing costs while maintaining access to all data.
By Renato Losio
The recently released Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) aims to be a schema-aware alternative to JSON that significantly reduces token consumption at a similar level of accuracy. While the existence and importance of token saved depend on the data shape. some benchmarks show TOON may use in some cases 40% fewer tokens than JSON, possibly resulting in LLM and inference cost savings.
By Bruno Couriol
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