Codetown ::: a software developer's community
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Interested in Kotlin? Are you a practitioner? Kotlin is a statically typed…
15 members Latest Activity: May 6, 2018 Ever wonder how Google Translate works? It's computational linguistics! Join us here and learn all about it and more. Jim White will be our guide.…
9 members Latest Activity: Apr 13, 2010 Everyone likes a challenge. How about a contest? If you like to flex your muscle, why not join us here at Contest Town. You'll find some challenging…
23 members Latest Activity: Aug 23, 2012 Are you interested in social networks? We're talking about virtual communities here. Community builders use tools and techniques. We'll discuss them…
5 members Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2011 Scala is a general programming language and it runs on JVM. It's a static typed language with many features that make code concise and flexible.
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40 members Latest Activity: Jan 29, 2015 iPhone development is going nuts! All the apps, all the possibilities. Objective-C is the language. The SDK is out. Shops are springing up everywhere…
14 members Latest Activity: Dec 5, 2012 Ruby has made an impact on patterns of software development with its elegant syntax and Rails, an intelligent framework designed to simplify coding.
8 members Latest Activity: Feb 13, 2014 Clojure is a programming language that shares the powerful meta-programming facilities of Lisp, has an agent-based approach to concurrency like…
25 members Latest Activity: Feb 28, 2015 Using Groovy and Grails? Discuss it here.
9 members Latest Activity: Feb 28, 2015 Love Jython? Can't get enough JRuby? Groovy? Dynamic languages on the JVM can set you free! Scala? Sure! Let us know what you think here in the Other…
14 members Latest Activity: Jun 26, 2019 This group focuses on the Java SE environment. It's the core Java group. Questions? Answers? Musings? This is the place for you!
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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Microsoft announced version 2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK, which implements the 2026-07-28 revision of the Model Context Protocol with stateless HTTP servers by default, standardised routing headers and Multi Round-Trip Requests. Releases 2.1 to 2.3 have since added hybrid session serving, a subscriptions/listen handler and a series of discovery, OAuth and shutdown fixes.
By Edin Kapić
PHP released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Amazon recorded an exploitation attempt four days before the patches shipped, and operators spent the day working out whether they ran PHP, where to get the package, and how to tell it had landed.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Google and Meta open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for Google's TPUs, at PyTorch Conference North America 2026, and Meta said it plans to move larger LLM workloads onto TPUs with it. AWS released TorchNeuron for Trainium the same week, while developers questioned TPU availability and where vendor lock-in now sits.
By Andrew Hoblitzell
Google has released ML Drift, an open-source, cross-platform GPU compute engine designed for on-device AI and machine learning inference. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it abstracts the complexities of different GPU hardware and low-level APIs, supporting OpenGL ES, OpenCL, Metal, and WebGPU.
By Sergio De Simone
PingCAP recently confirmed unauthorized access to its internal systems and the theft of source code and customer-related data. The attacker, cyber extortion group FulcrumSec, claimed to have stolen 10.6 TB of data, including TiDB Cloud control-plane records, customer SQL statements, API keys, connection logs, billing information, internal documents, and 413 private source-code repositories.
By Renato Losio
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