Michael Newman
  • Male
Share on Facebook MySpace
  • Blog Posts
  • Discussions
  • Events
  • Groups (5)
  • Photos
  • Photo Albums
  • Videos

Michael Newman's Friends

  • Steve Wininger
  • Michael Levin

Michael Newman's Groups

Gifts Received

Gift

Michael Newman has not received any gifts yet

Give a Gift

 

Michael Newman's Page

Profile Information

How did you hear about Codetown?
I went to a JUG meeting, and I found out there's a "facebook for coders". I don't have a facebook, but a facebook for coders doesn't sound so bad.
What are your main interests in software development?
right now, I'm just interested in learning as many languages as I can as well as I can (I'm decent at C++ and Perl, and I can say hello world in Java, Python, Lisp, Haskell, JavaScript, Ruby, and C#), and getting some practical coding experience under my belt. as far as projects go, I'm not good enough at either relevant language (C++/C#) to program games for my phone, but that's probably what I'll end up doing a lot of over the next year.

well, that and learning some of this new XHTML stuff (last time I wrote HTML was almost a decade ago. I hear it's changed) and figuring out CGI.pm, so I can put up a web site.
Do you have a website?
http://bit.ly/codeman
Anything else you'd like to add? Where do you live? (optional!)
I don't care what anyone says, I still think JavaScript.onMouseOver is a funny way to play internet pranks on people.

Comment Wall (1 comment)

You need to be a member of Codetown to add comments!

Join Codetown

At 4:30pm on February 11, 2010, Michael Levin said…
Hi Mike and welcome to Codetown. You say you don't have a website? Now you do! Check out your new URL. Glad you've joined a bunch of groups. Please add me as a friend. In fact, invite some friends if you like. Enjoy! Nice meeting you last night at the GatorJUG. /Mike
 
 
 

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.

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…
Continue

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.

 

Enjoy the site? Support Codetown with your donation.



InfoQ Reading List

Podcast: 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 Ritter

Neptune 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 Simone

Meta 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 Goje

Java 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

IBM Research Introduces CUGA, an Open-Source Configurable Agent Framework on Hugging Face

IBM Research has released CUGA (Configurable Generalist Agent) on Hugging Face Spaces, making its enterprise-oriented agent framework easier to evaluate with open models and real workflows. The move positions CUGA as a practical alternative to brittle, tightly coupled agent frameworks that often struggle with tool misuse, long-horizon reasoning, and recovery from failure.

By Robert Krzaczyński

© 2025   Created by Michael Levin.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service