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"Thanks Mike! What a blast from the past! That Red Hat swag! ;-). Jim"
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- The "art of the start", social networks, content management systems, blogs, small business innovative research, iPhones, Android, sensors, cyber security, rules engines, podcasting, Java, Groovy, Ruby, Python, Turbogears, operating systems (especially OSX and Linux), relational databases, The Semantic Web, Web2.0 and enterprise architecture.
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- I run Cambridge Web Design, a Florida corporation that provides software development and professional services. Cambridge - working software developers.
The Bike Preserve, www.tinyurl.com/okpeoro the most fun in a long time. I founded www.codetown.com, www.zoobird.com & www.swampcast.com - l <3 JUGs: OrlandoJUG, GatorJUG & SeneJUG...super fond of CongoJUG & JCertif
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New Java features
Posted on August 29, 2025 at 5:32pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
August 28 2025, Newsletter no. 297 (this newsletter is available in html format at http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/news/news297.shtml )
As usual before a Java release, I'm listing all the new…
Free Eclipse book, recently published
Posted on August 24, 2025 at 11:59am 0 Comments 0 Likes
ContinueHi Everyone,My publisher is running a free Amazon Kindle book promotion through Monday, August 25th, 2025. The book, “Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game” can be obtained for $0 on Kindle on Amazon through the August 25th.…
What is vibe coding?
Posted on June 9, 2025 at 9:37am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Vibe coding isn’t a formal technical term, but it’s become a slang or colloquial expression among programmers and tech communities—especially on social media and in creative coding circles.
What “vibe coding” usually means:
- Coding based on intuition or feel
Instead of rigidly planning everything out, you’re:- Freestyling as you…
You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom
Posted on March 25, 2025 at 4:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Learning about artificial intelligence? You may find this interesting.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom/
Software language criteria
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Comment Wall (144 comments)
- At 9:00pm on September 9, 2025,
Jim White said…
Thanks Mike! What a blast from the past! That Red Hat swag! ;-). Jim
- At 1:54pm on September 5, 2019,
Ian Darwin said…
Thanks for the invite!
- At 9:50am on July 27, 2019,
Zeeshan Murad said…
- Thanks
- At 7:20pm on January 17, 2019,
Bradlee Sargent said…
I didn't mean to make you feel bad, I know how busy you must be. It's just we could do more to promote this site. Does the twitter thingie work for you?
- At 3:30pm on December 28, 2018,
Thanks so much for the birthday wishes. I know it's so late getting back to you but I don't check this website very often.
- At 12:11pm on November 1, 2018,
Michael Redlich said…
Thanks for the invitation and the birthday wishes, Mike!
- At 8:44am on October 23, 2018,
Joe McCall said…
- Hi Michael. I hope CodeOne is going well. Any idea when the next JUG event will be?
- At 7:50pm on October 9, 2018,
Thanks. I'm interested either way (either 10/25 or the rescheduled day).
- At 1:38pm on October 4, 2018,
Ramya Beesam said…
Sure Mike. I can do that
- At 9:46am on October 4, 2018,
Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez said…
- Hey Mike! Conference is awesome. Hoping to post talks as soon as they're up. My talk os tomorrow! Also that's great I would love to hear his talk!!! We're doing a lot with AOP and metaprogramming
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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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.
When you create a profile for yourself you get a personal page automatically. That's where you can be creative and do your own thing. People who want to get to know you will click on your name or picture and…
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Article: Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking: Lessons from What Works and What Hurts
Event-driven architecture helps banks decouple systems, scale services, and create clear activity trails. But it also introduces complexity, new failure modes, and operational challenges. Chris Tacey-Green explains where it adds value in banking systems and the practical patterns, such as inbox/outbox and stable event contracts, needed to make it reliable.
By Chris Tacey-GreenCloudflare Adds Active API Vulnerability Scanning to Its Edge
Cloudflare has announced the open beta of its Web and API Vulnerability Scanner. This Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tool is part of the API Shield platform.
By Claudio MasoloPodcast: Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems: A Conversation with Lorin Hochstein
In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Lorin Hochstein about how real-world failures provide insight into how software systems actually work. Our first topic was understanding that while automated fault injection tools can introduce basic robustness into a system, they cannot replicate the understanding that comes from mitigating complicated software failures in the real world.
By Lorin HochsteinQCon London 2026: Team Topologies as the ‘Infrastructure for Agency’ with AI
At QCon London 2026, Matthew Skelton argued that AI success depends on organisational maturity. He highlighted bounded agency, security, and stewardship as key to managing AI agents. By using Innovation and Practices Enabling Teams, companies can drive knowledge diffusion and optimise internal processes to see real-world returns on their AI investments.
By Mark SilvesterKubeVirt v1.8 Brings Multi-Hypervisor Support and Confidential Computing to Kubernetes
Version 1.8 of KubeVirt was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The release is aligned with Kubernetes v1.35, and the most significant addition is a Hypervisor Abstraction Layer (HAL) that allows the project to use backends other than KVM. In an announcement post on the CNCF blog, the maintainers announced the new release, broken down by their SIGs.
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