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OSCON Call for Speakers

OSCON 2013
Call for Speakers Is Open for OSCON 2013

We're looking for speakers to be part of the program for the 15th edition of OSCON, happening July 22-26, 2013, in Portland, Oregon. If you have a new idea, a better way to do something, an interesting and instructive case study (battle scars optional), or the desire to pass on your hard-won knowledge, submit a proposal to lead sessions or tutorials.

Added by Michael Levin on January 25, 2013 at 6:45pm — No Comments

Nighthacking Tour with Java Evangelist Stephen Chin

From Jan 25th to Feb 7th Stephen Chin will be traveling across the Nordic countries and doing live video streaming of the journey. Along the way he will visit user groups, interview interesting folks, and hack on open source projects. The last stop will be at Jfokus 2013.…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 23, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Is the next big thing already here?

Create or innovate. What does East know about West? A lot. We speak different languages, even use different alphabets. No problem, says Samsung. Samsung's ad dep't makes it clear, even funny. Hilarious!

Economic models are different, too. Like polar extremes. One gives you everything you need in exchange for your time. The other promises you everything you…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 22, 2013 at 7:30am — No Comments

Oracle Security Update (Java)

Oracle Security Update CVE-2013-0422
An Oracle Security Alert was issued today.  To learn more about the alert please refer to the following link.…
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Added by Michael Levin on January 14, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

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OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra for Coding and Computer Use

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model focused on coding, computer use, long-running agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, with availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API.

By Daniel Dominguez

Beyond Autonomous Teams in Software Product Development

Autonomous teams are an article of faith in modern software development. The shape of our value determines what we can do; it determines our trade-offs between agency and coherence. We all have a purpose, and we all have agency to do something, hence the suggestion is moving from product focus to value center thinking.

By Ben Linders

Presentation: Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust Into Existing Codebase

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.

By Lily Mara

Article: When Spec-Driven Development Pays Off

AI coding assistants have become a core part of software development. AI-generated code has shown productivity gains, but it's also contributing to security weaknesses and familiar bug patterns. In this article, author Nitin Garg highlights the bottleneck has moved from code generation to code verification, and how to detect & mitigate it when the AI-generated behavior diverges from the intent.

By Nitin Garg

IETF Publishes RFC 10008, Adding the QUERY Method for Safe Requests With a Body

In June 2026, the IETF published RFC 10008, introducing the QUERY method to HTTP, the first new standard HTTP verb since 2010. QUERY enables developers to send richer query filters in the request body while maintaining cacheable, safe, and idempotent semantics. This addition addresses long-standing limitations with GET and POST methods, facilitating improved API interactions.

By Daniel Curtis

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