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Eric Lavigne's Groups (8)
Computational Linguistics Village
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.…
Startup City
24 members Latest Activity: Jun 10, 2016 Have you got a great idea you'd like to put into action? This is the place for you! We'll talk about ideas and how to turn them into businesses here.
Contest Town
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…
.Net Town
18 members Latest Activity: Apr 13, 2020 What's up with .Net in your neck of the woods? We'll discuss all the basics here. Eventually, we'l break out separate groups for C#, etc...
GatorJUG Town
30 members Latest Activity: Feb 25, 2021 Gainesville JUG, this is your place. Gather here to network, trade tips and ideas, or ask questions. You can create discussions and upload code.…
iPhone Development
41 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…
JEE Town
28 members Latest Activity: Dec 11, 2012 Here's your Java Enterprise Edition group. JEE powers distributed software.
Clojure
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…
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Notes
Welcome to Codetown!
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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InfoQ Reading List
Presentation: Legacy Modernization: Architecting Realtime Systems Around a Mainframe
Jason Roberts and Sonia Mathew discuss architecting resilient real-time systems interacting with mainframes. They explain how Change Data Capture, Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture, and Team Topologies were crucial for technical, organizational, and semantic decoupling. Learn their strategies for overcoming challenges with legacy systems and building a unified, scalable platform.
By Jason Roberts, Sonia MathewAnthropic Introduces Claude 4 Family and Claude Code
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, the newest versions of their Claude series of LLMs. Both models support extended thinking, tool use, and memory improvements, and Claude 4 Opus outperforms other LLMs on coding benchmarks.
By Anthony AlfordAmazon Open Sources Strands Agents SDK for Building AI Agents
Amazon has released Strands Agents, an open source SDK that simplifies AI agent development through a model-driven approach. The framework enables developers to build agents by defining prompts and tool lists with minimal code.
By Vinod GojeJava News Roundup: GlassFish, JEPs Targeted for JDK 25, TornadoVM, Hibernate Reactive, Spring Cloud
This week's Java roundup for May 26th, 2025 features news highlighting: the twelfth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0; four JEPs targeted for JDK 25; introducing the GPULlama3.java project powered by TornadoVM; and GA releases of Hibernate Reactive 3.0, Spring Modulith 1.4 and Spring Cloud 2025.0.
By Michael RedlichArticle: The MVP Dilemma: Scale Now or Scale Later?
Scaling a system is a hard problem to solve. Underinvesting in scalability leads to a shortened lifespan for the system, but overinvesting can kill the MVP business case because of cost.
By Kurt Bittner, Pierre Pureur
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