Codetown
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Zemian Deng's Groups (10)
Configuration Management SIG
8 members Latest Activity: Nov 3, 2011 Half the work of starting a project is setting it up. A large proportion is keeping it set up. We'll talk about tips and tricks, Maven, and more…
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…
Scala
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.
OrlandoJUG Town
96 members Latest Activity: Feb 23, 2021
Calling all Java lovers! The OrlandoJUG features leading edge presentations with you in mind. We meet every month with talks on interesting…
Build Team Town
4 members Latest Activity: Oct 6, 2009 You love Ant and other build tools. You can build an app, run a suite of tests, create a jar, deploy it. Or, you want to learn. This is your group!
Spring Town
47 members Latest Activity: Sep 21, 2019 Dependency injection. It's a smart approach. Believe that? We do! Come on in and share what you know. Ask all your Spring questions here, too!
Web2.0 Town
19 members Latest Activity: Dec 22, 2013 Web2.0 is the dynamic web. It's social networking, tag clouds, metadata, geodata, and more. We love Web2.0. There's more out there than you can…
Groovy and Grails
25 members Latest Activity: Feb 28, 2015 Using Groovy and Grails? Discuss it here.
Other Languages on the JVM Village
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…
JEE Town
28 members Latest Activity: Dec 11, 2012 Here's your Java Enterprise Edition group. JEE powers distributed software.
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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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By Renato LosioGoogle Releases MedGemma: Open AI Models for Medical Text and Image Analysis
Google has released MedGemma, a pair of open-source generative AI models designed to support medical text and image understanding in healthcare applications. Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, the models are available in two configurations: MedGemma 4B, a multimodal model capable of processing both images and text, and MedGemma 27B, a larger model focused solely on medical text.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiMicrosoft Announces AI Agent and Platform Updates at Build 2025
At its annual developer conference, Build 2025, Microsoft introduced a set of updates focused on expanding the role of AI agents across Windows, GitHub, Azure, and Microsoft 365.
By Daniel DominguezPodcast: Emerson Murphy-Hill on Engineering Productivity, Team Dynamics and Equity
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Emerson Murphy-Hill about how measuring developer productivity is tricky, why team dynamics and psychological safety matter more than things like meeting load, the impact of systemic bias and how new AI tools are shaping equity in engineering - sometimes helping, but sometimes risking new kinds of unfairness.
By Emerson Murphy-HillArticle: Designing Resilient Event-Driven Systems at Scale
Learn how to design resilient event-driven systems that scale. Explore key patterns like shuffle sharding and decoupling queues to handle load spikes and failures. Understand common pitfalls like over-relying on retries and neglecting observability for robust, scalable architectures.
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