Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Bebo has such an interesting story. It started about the same time as Facebook, became super popular, got sold to AOL and then to C Capital Partners. Now, the owners have bought it back and are reviving it.Here's an article about Bebo from '06 that…Continue
Started by Michael Levin Dec 22, 2013.
Instagram is growing at a rate similar to Twitter. Pictures don't need translation. That's just one aspect of the new photo sharing paradigm. An article in yesterday's New York Times describes some of the businesses that are doing well on the crest…Continue
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Shubham Aggarwal Dec 18, 2012.
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…Continue
Tags: Horacio Lassey-Assiakoley, SUN/Oracle, Atlantique Telecom Togo, UNHCR, Stanyslas Bweta
Started by Michael Levin Aug 28, 2010.
JCertif is one of the first Java related conferences in the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville. Sponsored by AfricaJUG, CongoJUG, Oracle and Fujitsu…Continue
Tags: Max Bonbhel, Michael Levin, swampcast, africajug, congojug
Started by Michael Levin Aug 25, 2010.
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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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At QCon London 2026, Spotify's Jo Kelly-Fenton and Aleksandar Mitic discussed Honk, an AI-powered coding agent that enables code migrations across Spotify's codebase. The system improves migration, reducing timelines drastically and addressing complexities that traditional scripts could not. Key challenges included handling edge cases and standardizing the codebase to facilitate review processes.
By Daniel Curtis
HubSpot engineers introduced Sidekick, an internal AI powered code review system that analyzes pull requests using large language models and filters feedback through a secondary “judge agent.” The system reduced time to first feedback on pull requests by about 90 percent and is now used across tens of thousands of internal pull requests.
By Leela Kumili
In a talk at QCon London 2026, Viktor Petersson argued that software teams are running out of time to adopt SBOMs (Software Bills of Materials) due to pending legislative changes in both the US and Europe. He walked through the current regulatory landscape, spoke on the practical mechanics of generating high-quality SBOMs and on the emerging standards for distributing the resulting artefacts.
By Matt Saunders
Rafael Ring discusses the architectural evolution of server-driven UI at Nubank, moving from static mobile binaries to a sophisticated scripted framework called Catalyst. He explains how they implemented a tree-walk interpreter in Flutter to render dynamic layouts and logic from JSON payloads.
By Rafael Ring
Oracle has released version 26 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first non-LTS release since JDK 25, the final feature set includes 10 JEPs, five of which are still progressing through the preview and incubator stages. This release focuses on Java library improvements, language innovation, performance and security.
By Michael Redlich
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