January 2011 Blog Posts (4)

Educational demos

Just got done with some educational demos on electrons flowing in transistors It is fun to watch!

 

 

Added by Mike Zielinski on January 31, 2011 at 12:33pm — 2 Comments

Exclusive Java Programmer Certification Offer: 48 Hours Only

This just in (via Nichole Scott of Oracle - thanks, Nichole!) Oracle University has announced some VERY good discounts on a new Java Programmer Certification Preparation Live Virtual Class and certification exam voucher today.

We want to make sure all JUG members who are interested in pursuing the Java Programmer…
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Added by Michael Levin on January 25, 2011 at 8:50pm — No Comments

OSCON CFP

For thirteen years the O'Reilly Open Source Convention has been bringing together people from across the open source universe to learn, collaborate, and inspire each other. OSCON provides a central place to…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 14, 2011 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Cartographer in a new Avatar! , now supports Google Maps 3 & Rails 3

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Subject: [Bangalore RUG] Cartographer in a new Avatar! , now supports Google

Maps 3 & Rails 3



Hello All,

  Cartographer is a Google Maps wrapper that was originally written 

in 2005 when Rails tagged 0.1.  For many years people used it to … Continue

Added by Michael Levin on January 10, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

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InfoQ Reading List

Presentation: Using AI as a Thinking Partner for Large-Scale Engineering Systems

Julie Qiu explains how AI serves as a "thinking partner" for engineering leaders. She discusses five distinct roles - Archaeologist, Experimenter, Critic, Author, and Reviewer - to manage the cognitive load of 400+ repositories. She shares how AI provides the "RAM" needed to synthesize legacy context, pressure-test designs, and accelerate high-level architectural decisions.

By Julie Qiu

Discord Reveals How a Hidden Circular Dependency Triggered Its March Voice Outage

Discord has released a detailed postmortem on its March 25, 2026, voice outage, revealing that a previously undetected circular dependency in its voice infrastructure triggered a cascading failure that disrupted voice services across the platform.

By Craig Risi

Mini book: Architecting Autonomy: Decentralising Architecture Inside an Organization

As AI accelerates delivery cycles, traditional centralized architecture becomes a bottleneck. This eMag brings together practitioner insights on decentralizing decision-making and moving from approval chains to guardrails. Discover frameworks for rethinking the architect’s role, creating enabling platforms, and balancing edge autonomy with the strategic coherence needed to scale effectively.

By InfoQ

Benchmarking AI Agents on Kubernetes

Brandon Foley published a benchmarking study on the CNCF blog showing that AI coding agents can find and fix isolated bugs. However, they often struggle to understand system-wide impacts. This challenges the idea that improved code retrieval is the main way to enhance automated bug fixing.

By Claudio Masolo

SolidJS 2.0 Beta: First-Class Async, Reworked Suspense and Deterministic Batching

SolidJS 2.0 Beta introduces significant changes in async handling and reactivity. Async is now a first-class feature, enabling direct use of Promises within the framework. The update includes new primitives for mutations, altered state handling, and significant breaking changes. It is designed for improved developer experience while maintaining fine-grained reactivity without a virtual DOM.

By Daniel Curtis

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