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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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Presentation: Powering Enterprise AI Applications with Data and Open Source Software

Francisco Javier Arceo explored Feast, the open-source feature store designed to address common data challenges in the AI/ML lifecycle, such as feature redundancy, and low-latency serving at scale.

By Francisco Javier Arceo

AlphaEvolve Enters Google Cloud as an Agentic System for Algorithm Optimization

Google Cloud announced the private preview of AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent designed to discover and optimize algorithms for complex engineering and scientific problems. The system is now available through an early access program on Google Cloud, targeting use cases where traditional brute-force or manual optimization methods struggle due to vast search spaces.

By Robert Krzaczyński

Google Unveils New Tools and Libraries for Building AI Glasses Apps

With the release of the Android XR SDK Developer Preview 3, Google has introduced two new libraries to help developers create AI Glasses experiences, Jetpack Projected and Jetpack Compose Glimmer. ARCore for Jetpack XR has also been expanded to work with AI Glasses, adding motion tracking and geospatial capabilities.

By Sergio De Simone

Podcast: Building a More Appealing CLI for Agentic LLMs Based on Learnings from the Textual Framework

Will McGugan, the maker of Textual and Rich frameworks, speaks about the reasoning of developing the two two libraries and the lesson learned. Also, he shares light on Toad, his current project, which he envisions being a more visually appealing way of interacting with agentic LLMs through command line.

By Will McGugan

Java News Roundup: Spring Tools 5, TornadoVM, Payara Platform, Hibernate ORM, Spock Framework

This week's Java roundup for December 8th, 2025, features news highlighting: the release of Spring Tools 5.0; milestone releases of Spring AI and Spring Shell; the December 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of Hibernate ORM and Spock Framework; and maintenance releases of Spring Framework, Micronaut, Apache TomEE and Apache Tomcat.

By Michael Redlich

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