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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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Carnegie Mellon University has introduced Fray, a concurrency testing tool for JVM programs to catch bugs and replay them. Written in Kotlin and based on this research paper, Fray can’t find all concurrency issues, but uses recent research in order to maximize the chances of detecting them.
By Johan Janssen
George Mao shares a deep dive into evolving a basic web application to a planet-scale, global architecture. He walks through 5 stages of maturity, focusing on adding enterprise-grade security, achieving global high availability and disaster recovery, optimizing content delivery costs with CDNs, and implementing globally consistent persistence using serverless technologies.
By George MaoThis eMag explores architecture through five distinct lenses: the socio-technical forces that invisibly shape our code, the paradox of infrastructure that succeeds by disappearing, the power of distributed intelligence over centralized control, the evolutionary advantage of iteration over revolution, and the pragmatic reality of designing for inevitable complexity.
By InfoQGabriele Columbro, managing director of the Linux Foundation Europe, discusses the differences in the open-source landscape between Europe, China and the US. Stressing that the open-source landscape is the last favorable ground for global innovation in the current geo-political landscape.
By Gabriele Columbro
BellSoft has launched Hardened Images for Java containers, claiming 95% fewer CVEs and 30% resource savings. Built on Alpaquita Linux, the 3-in-1 solution combines runtime optimisation, OS hardening, and CVE remediation. It offers a secure, flexible alternative to Chainguard and Distroless, available now in three tiers.
By Mark Silvester
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