Codetown ::: a software developer's community
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…
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!
4 members Latest Activity: Mar 31, 2009 There's Agile. RUP. Methodologies help us keep from repeating the mistakes. They are templates for streamlining and managing our work. And, they…
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!
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…
13 members Latest Activity: Mar 16, 2015 Object relational mapping, Hibernate, container managed persistence. Do you eat, breath and sleep databases? We do! This is the place to share what…
25 members Latest Activity: Feb 28, 2015 Using Groovy and Grails? Discuss it here.
28 members Latest Activity: Dec 11, 2012 Here's your Java Enterprise Edition group. JEE powers distributed software.
5 members Latest Activity: Mar 31, 2009 Operating systems are like religions. At this stage, people have spent entire careers with one or another. But, now we have multiple choices and…
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!
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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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
Google explained how an 11-hour unattended run of Gemini 4 Argon produced two accepted optimizations for Google Agent Development Kit's codebase, reducing in-memory session-preparation overhead by about 40% in long sessions and cold package import time by 21%.
By Sergio De Simone
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