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Great article here...
"Has your organization realized the potential of cloud computing yet? For users of geographic information system (GIS) technology, the cloud opens a number of new uses like weather forecasting, sales analysis, population…
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Hey, everyone:
We have a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/codetown - if you haven't joined yet, please do. We'll post events, links to articles and discussions on Codetown and also links to articles outside the group, like this:
So, once you like the Facebook page, you'll get a stream of updates from…
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This just in from Satish N Kota of the Bangalore RUG:
"Hello Folks,
Lets begin the begin and in that spirit, call for talk proposals is
open for RubyConf India 2012. Interested folks can head over to:…
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Here is a link to a presentation I put together for compiling Objective C using the Android NDK. Maybe someone will find it interesting...
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Interested in Hudson? (or in finding out what it is) - check out this free book! Thanks to Frans Thamura all the way from Java,…
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Ensemble: service orchestration for the cloud (my work for Ubuntu Server) http://fewbar.com/2011/06/so-what-is-ensemble-anyway - via Jim Baker
Jim and I spent some time…
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We had a great time at the OrlandoJUG meeting tonight. It was an Open Spaces style meeting and a potluck dinner. We had some new faces and certainly covered interesting topics. Here are a few:
1. Cloud Computing
2. JavaOne 2011
3. Managing dev, test and production environments
4. OSGi - what it is and how…
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Here's a website with open source code:
ching(6), the old amusement found in BSD 4.[234], has disappeared from the face of the net. I wanted it back. Fortunately finding the full text of the Wilhelm translation of the I Ching was easy. So was writing a program to read it.…
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Oracle offers variety of Java Certifications for all Java Editions (Java SE, Java EE and Java ME). Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 5/SE 6 (Formerly Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA) ) certification provides basic knowledge required to manage a Java project.
What exam I need to pass to achieve OCA for Java SE 6 Certification?
You need to complete 1Z0-850 – Java Standard Edition 5 and 6, Certified Associate Exam to…
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Dean Iverson and I have been working on an open source project called GroovyFX that provides a Groovy binding that sits on the new JavaFX 2.0 platform. Dean has written a good blog on how to get started with GroovyFX here. It is already a little dated, but if you ignore the JavaFX build numbers and just download the…
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Hi there,
I have couple announcements.
First: Do you need Java scheduling? How about try out an easy web based UI with Quartz!
Both myschedule-2.1.2 (for Quartz-2.1.0) and myschedule-1.5.2(for Quartz-1.8.5) releases are available for download here: http://code.google.com/p/myschedule/downloads/list
I have fixed few bugs and improved the UI slightly. Both of these releases should…
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Here's a recap of what happened at the JCertif 2011 conference in Brazzaville from Chrisobel Malonga:
"Hello with all, I take a few minutes in order to announce to you how much JCertif 2011 of which you are the actors at summer a true success and a true human adventure which was worth the cost d' to be lived. My arrival on the spot dated August 27 m' allowed…
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