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Public Safety Data Hackathon
Looking for something interesting to do this weekend? Well, if you're in South Florida, there's a hackathon Saturday that sounds like a great way to learn some new tools and use some interesting …
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on February 16, 2017 at 12:58pm — No Comments
O'Reilly Conference Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Program
O'Reilly Conference Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Program:
At O'Reilly, they believe that true innovation depends on hearing from, and listening to, people with a variety of perspectives. They want their conferences, and the technology communities and companies who participate in them, to include, encourage, and recognize people of all races,…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on February 11, 2017 at 7:19pm — No Comments
Humble Bundle 2017
Humble Bundle 2017:
O'Reilly has another Humble Book Bundle, this time: All about Hacks.
Fill your library with practical and creative hacks with O'Reilly's latest Humble Bundle. Readers can pay any price they choose and support a charity at the same time! Bundle Ends …
Added by Michael Levin on February 11, 2017 at 7:17pm — No Comments
JFocus!
https://www.jfokus.se/jfokus/
I noticed Matt Raible is there and a bunch of people you probably know.
If you have some news to report about JFocus or just want to keep up with what's going on, stay tuned and please add comments.
Added by Michael Levin on February 9, 2017 at 8:30am — No Comments
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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.
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