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JavaOne JUG DiscountIf you're a JUG member, the JavaOne event team wants you to know there's a special discount for you: "We are offering our JUG’s a specia… Started by Michael Levin |
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Mangi Def (Hello) from Michael Levin(Photo from the Senejug kickoff in 2007! Click the photo or here to see the set) Hello, Senejug from afar, from Michael in sunny Florida.… Started by Michael Levin |
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AFRICA ANDROID CHALLENGE - SUBMISSIONS ARE IN!Check out these cool submissions to the Africa Android Challenge: http://www.androidchallenge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=art… Started by Michael Levin |
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JCertif 2011 : Java is on! Rockin' in the Congo-BrazzavilleHi All,As some of you already know. The next edition of JCertif is coming.This year again the JCertif Conference will bring together devel… Started by Michael Levin |
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Africa Mobilizes and Java 7 too!Africa is mobiizing to help communities all over gain useful software development skills. Today, we met to discuss conferences planned all… Started by Michael Levin |
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Notes from JCertif, in Brazzaville, Republic of CongoI've blogged a lot about this place and why I am here, so I'll summarize (read www.facebook.com/mikelevin http://jroller.com/Sandymountste… Started by Michael Levin |
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Barcamp GoreeHello! There's an exciting event coming up - it's the Barcamp Goree! Details here, in the Events section. Do you think you can attend? Started by Michael Levin |
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Meet your Java neighbors in W Africa!Interested in meeting some colleagues in West Africa? SeneJUG is the West African Java User Group. Members come from Senegal, Mali, Mauri… Started by Michael Levin |
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Code to Live or Live to Code?Lamine Ba, co-chairman of the SeneJUG, is a talented developer and businessman. Work hard, play hard! Check out this video shot of Lamine… Started by Michael Levin |
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SeneJUG July '09 - Scrum PresentationThe Senejug July meeting featured a presentation on Scrum. Come and see the photos and view the presentation if you missed the meeting! Started by Michael Levin |
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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.
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A growing body of recent research and industry commentary suggests that a shift in how organisations approach site reliability engineering is underway. Rather than handing the pager to a machine, teams are designing multi-agent AI systems that work alongside on-call engineers, narrowing the search space and automating the tedious steps while leaving judgment calls to humans.
By Matt Saunders
Hugging Face has released FineTranslations, a large-scale multilingual dataset containing more than 1 trillion tokens of parallel text across English and 500+ languages. The dataset was created by translating non-English content from the FineWeb2 corpus into English using Gemma3 27B, with the full data generation pipeline designed to be reproducible and publicly documented.
By Robert Krzaczyński
The latest Android Studio Otter feature drop introduces several new features that make it easier for developers to integrate AI-powered tools in their workflows, including the ability to set which LLM to use, enhanced agent mode through device interaction, support for natural language testing, and more.
By Sergio De Simone
Cloudflare recently shared how it manages its huge global fleet with SaltStack (Salt). They discussed the engineering tasks needed for the "grain of sand" problem. This concern is about finding one configuration error among millions of state applications. Cloudflare’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team redesigned their configuration observability.
By Claudio Masolo
Pulumi now natively supports Terraform and HCL, enabling direct HCL execution and state management within Pulumi Cloud. Currently in private beta with a Q1 2026 release, the update aids migration from legacy tools. A new financial "escape hatch" offers credits for existing HashiCorp contracts, targeting teams affected by recent licensing shifts.
By Mark Silvester
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