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Getting started with Arduino(photo by Nicholas Zambetti) I just went to the Maker Faire in the Bay Area with my friend Michael Hauser. The expo was filled with Ardui… Started by Michael Levin |
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Arduino sensorsI was talking with my friend Daniel at the McRorie Community Garden in Gainesville yesterday. He said that gardening sensors were all the… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | May 8, 2009 |
ProSenseMarko Stankovic is involved with an EC-funded project called ProSense. He describes it here, on his Codetown blog. Marko tells me that he a… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Mar 28, 2009 |
What are you doing with SunSPOT?Please share your projects (or ideas) here. Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Mar 18, 2009 |
Roger Meike Discusses SunSPOTs at GoogleStarted by Michael Levin |
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What is a SunSPOT?"What is a SPOT? It’s a piece of hardware that has an array of sensors, an IO port, a radio for wireless communications, a set of LEDs, so… 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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This week's Java roundup for November 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 26; the GA release of Spring Framework 7.0; point releases of Spring Data, Spring AI, JobRunr and Jox; the November 2025 edition of Payara Platform; the fifth release candidate of Maven 4.0; and a maintenance release of Micronaut.
By Michael Redlich
Generative AI technologies need to support new workloads, traffic patterns, and infrastructure demands and require a new set of tools for the age of GenAI. Erica Hughberg from Tetrate and Alexa Griffith from Bloomberg spoke last week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Conference about what it takes to build GenAI platforms capable of serving model inference at scale.
By Srini Penchikala
Wes Reisz discusses an experiment to deliver a QCon certification using a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture and supervised coding agents (Claude Sonnet/Cursor). He breaks down the 4-week serverless video transcription pipeline, RAG variations (hybrid, graph), and the process of structuring prompts for 95% AI-generated code.
By Wesley Reisz
LMArena has launched Code Arena, a new evaluation platform that measures AI models' performance in building complete applications instead of just generating code snippets. It emphasizes agentic behavior, allowing models to plan, scaffold, iterate, and refine code within controlled environments that replicate actual development workflows.
By Robert Krzaczyński
Amazon Web Services has announced enhancements to its CodeBuild service, allowing teams to use Amazon ECR as a remote Docker layer cache, significantly reducing image build times in CI/CD pipelines. By leveraging ECR repositories to persist and reuse build layers across runs, organisations can skip rebuilding unchanged parts of containers and accelerate delivery.
By Craig Risi
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