Codetown ::: a software developer's community
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.
35 members Latest Activity: Jul 20, 2019 Android is an open Java-based platform to use for developing mobile apps. Do you believe mobile computing is the wave of the future? We do!
4 members Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2012 Are you interested in community development and social networking? Have you got a website you'd like to enhance with social features? Join us here at…
4 members Latest Activity: Apr 3, 2011 Have a great idea? If you have a great idea, tell the world!
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…
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…
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…
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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Cloudflare has released Auto Router in public beta through AI Gateway, picking a model per request from a classifier that scores complexity, ambiguity, stakes and context dependence. Cloudflare’s own benchmark puts it ten points below Claude Opus 5.5 on success rate at a third of the cost, and practitioners have questioned how stakes survive a long agent session.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
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
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