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iBeaconsHave you heard of them? They look cool, but EXPENSIVE. I think they're too expensive for the average consumer. Estimote is an iBeacon manuf… Started by Michael Levin |
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Anyone had experience with time-saving toolkits for Mobile Development?I've done both iOS programming for iPad/iPhone and Android programming. All in the native platforms - Objective-C for iOS and Java for Andr… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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May 28, 2012 Reply by Jackie Gleason |
Insanely Great Social Hooks and Innovation on this iPhone/Android AppEveryTrail impresses as a well thought out app with GPS, multimedia and social integration. Not only is it well coded and solid, but th… Started by Michael Levin |
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URL -> IP AddressI'm working on an iPad app, and I need to go from a URL such as www.mysite.com to the IP Address and port, 12.34.56.78 port 123 or so. Ha… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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Oct 14, 2010 Reply by Kevin Neelands |
Orlando Mobile Programming ClubMeets at DeVry U! Started by Michael Levin |
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May 1, 2010 Reply by Walt Sellers |
iPad promo codesFor those of you getting a iPad, I highly recommend these two apps: First, a FREE nifty version of the Periodic Table Of Elements: http://i… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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Backtracking to iPhone OS 3.0Has this happened to anyone else?I got a notification recommending I let apple automatically upgrade the software on my iPhone, so I clicke… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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Feb 17, 2010 Reply by Kevin Neelands |
Backtracking to iPhone OS 3.0Has this happened to anyone else?I got a notification recommending I let apple automatically upgrade the software on my iPhone, so I clicke… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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Feb 17, 2010 Reply by Walt Sellers |
New Linkedin Group: iPhone Developer Connection - Jacksonville, FLHi All,I recently released my first iPhone App, Party Twacker, and would love to connect with other iPhone developers. Please go to :http:… Started by Kevin Collins |
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iPhone & Mac Developers GOTO Conference in Atlanta Feb 21 to 24, 2010The Mac Developer Network (a Europe-based group) is hosting a convention in Atlanta in cooperation with the Big Nerd Ranch (a programmer tr… Started by Walt Sellers |
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Jan 27, 2010 Reply by Walt Sellers |
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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Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan discusses industry-converging patterns for securing autonomous AI agents in production. He explains the critical vulnerabilities hidden inside the ReAct loop across context, reasoning, and tool execution. He shares how to mitigate risks like memory poisoning and rogue tool execution using defense-in-depth strategies, LLM-as-a-judge critics, and MAESTRO threat modeling.
By Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan
Elastic open-sourced Atlas, a system built on Elasticsearch that maintains three categories of memory for agents. Atlas integrates with agents via MCP and maintains per-user isolation of memories. When evaluated on question-answering capability, it scored 0.89 Recall@10.
By Anthony Alford
Microsoft has announced the limited public preview of Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, extending AI-powered vulnerability remediation to teams using Azure Repos.
By Craig Risi
AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive that runs each user session or AI agent in its own Firecracker virtual machine with hardware-level isolation, snapshot-based rapid launch, and state preservation for up to eight hours. Reddit community analysis found the minimum setup costs $3.03/day, roughly 9x Fargate spot pricing.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Event-driven architecture promises scalability, but in Java-based real-time systems the tradeoffs only surface in production. Drawing on a Java/Kafka contact center platform handling 80k BHCC across 10k agents, this article details where the design breaks down—state management, partition limits, deduplication, JVM tuning, cascading consumer failures—and the Redis-backed patterns that fixed each.
By Sagar Deepak Joshi
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