Codetown ::: a software developer's community
If 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 special discount for the month of June to
register for JavaOne 2014. The discount will provide an additional $200
savings off the current Early Bird price of $1,650. This gives a total
savings of $600 off the on-site price.
JUG members should use the code DJU4.
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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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Peter Gillard-Moss tries to help people understand how they can grow to become a great engineering manager.
By Peter Gillard-MossMeta open-sourced Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a LLM architecture that uses a learned dynamic scheme for processing patches of bytes instead of a tokenizer. This allows BLT models to match the performance of Llama 3 models but with 50% fewer inference FLOPS.
By Anthony AlfordLive from the QCon San Francisco Conference, we are talking with Susan Shu Chang, Principal Data Scientist at Elastic. Chang shares insights on bridging foundational machine learning with generative AI, emphasizing the importance of deploying ML models effectively, leveraging collaborative tools for prototyping, and aligning team roles with the ML life cycle to create scalable AI solutions.
By Susan Shu ChangSoftware development intelligence platform DX has introduced a new framework named DX Core 4, designed to help engineering leaders measure and improve developer productivity. The framework aims to simplify this task by building on older established frameworks like the DORA metrics and SPACE.
By Matt SaundersThis week's relatively quiet Java roundup for December 30th, 2024 features news highlighting: GlassFish 7.0.21; Spring AI MCP 0.4.0 and 0.3.0; Grails 6.2.3; Helidon 4.1.6; JReleaser 1.16.0; Resilience4j 2.3.0; and Arquillian 1.9.2.Final.
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