Codetown
Codetown ::: a software developer's community
-
Joe McCall
- Male
- Sanford, FL
- United States
- Blog Posts
- Discussions
- Events
- Groups
- Photos
- Photo Albums
- Videos
Gifts Received
Joe McCall has not received any gifts yet
Joe McCall's Page
Profile Information
- How did you hear about Codetown?
- Orlando Java Users Group
- What are your main interests in software development?
- Mostly Grails, Groovy, Kotlin, Java. I'd like to get into speaking at these types of events eventually.
- Anything else you'd like to add? Where do you live? (optional!)
- Sanford, FL
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.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
Looking for Jobs or Staff?
Check out the Codetown Jobs group.
InfoQ Reading List
Toad: A Unified CLI Tool for All Your LLMs That Promises Improved UX From Existing Ones
During his sabbatical, Will McGugan, maker of Rich and Textual( frameworks for making Textual User Interfaces (TUI)), put his UI skills to work to build Toad. The newly publicly released tool aims to provide a unified, “beautiful” GUI for multiple coding agents in your terminal, accessible via the same tool via the Agent Communication Protocol (ACP).
By Olimpiu PopPodcast: The Latest in OpenJDK and JCP Expert Group: Insights with Simon Ritter
In this episode, Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO at Azul, sat down with podcast host Michael Redlich, Lead Editor of the Java topic at InfoQ, and discussed the latest features in OpenJDK and Simon’s experiences serving on the JCP Expert Group since JDK 9. OpenJDK topics included: the six-month release cycle, Generational Shenandoah, JDK Flight Recorder, Project Leyden and Compact Object Headers.
By Simon RitterNeptune Combines AI‑Assisted Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Deployments
Now available in beta, Neptune is a conversational AI agent designed to act like an AI platform engineer, handling the provisioning, wiring, and configuration of the cloud services needed to run a containerized app. Neptune is both language and cloud-agnostic, with support for AWS, GCP, and Azure.
By Sergio De SimoneMeta Details GEM Ads Model Using LLM-Scale Training, Hybrid Parallelism, and Knowledge Transfer
Meta released details about its Generative Ads Model (GEM), a foundation model designed to improve ads recommendation across its platforms. The model addresses core challenges in recommendation systems (RecSys) by processing billions of daily user-ad interactions where meaningful signals such as clicks and conversions are very sparse.
By Vinod GojeJava News Roundup: GlassFish, TornadoVM, Spring Shell, WildFly, Hibernate, Kotlin
This week's Java roundup for December 15th, 2025, features news highlighting: the fifteenth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0; the first release candidate of Spring Shell 4.0; point releases of TornadoVM, Hibernate Reactive, Hibernate Search and Kotlin; the first beta release of WildFly 39; and maintenance releases of Micronaut Helidon and Vert.x.
By Michael Redlich
© 2025 Created by Michael Levin.
Powered by
Comment Wall (5 comments)
You need to be a member of Codetown to add comments!
Join Codetown
May be next year. We usually don’t meet in Nov-Dec. Maybe you’ll be our first speaker!
That’s great news. I’d really like to be there for the presentation. Let me see what’s up and I’ll be in touch very soon.
Sounds great, Joe. We meet on the 4th Th, this month is 10/25. I am going to CodeOne, so will either reschedule the meeting or get someone to lead.
You’ll want to join the OrlandoJUG Town group here on Codetown, too.
Hi Joe and welcome to Codetown! We’re looking for a speaker for this month’s OJUG. Let me know if you’re interested.