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We have a chance for a special Ceylon talk on either Mon 10/13, Fri 10/17, Mon 10/20, or Fri 10/24 in Orlando at OrlandoJUG and/or Gainesville at GatorJUG.
As you all know, OJUG meets 4th Th and GatorJUG meets 2nd Wed and these are Mondays and Fridays, so I need your…
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If you're a JUG member, the JavaOne event team wants you to know there's a special discount for you:
"We are offering our JUG’s a special discount for the month of June to
register for JavaOne 2014. The discount will provide an additional $200
savings off the current Early Bird price of $1,650. This…
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These days, it's hard to stick with just one language. Sure, you may be a Java developer or a Rubyist and "not interested" in learning another language. We tend to get comfortable in our comfort zone. But, being a polyglot has its advantages.
Tim Crowley just presented at SunJUG and…
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Guilherme Carreiro discusses the architecture behind Shopify’s theme system, focusing on balancing extreme customizability with platform stability. He explains how they leverage Liquid as a safe DSL, optimize performance via native extensions (Rust/C), and use JSON schemas to bridge the gap between developers and merchants.
By Guilherme Carreiro
This virtual panel brings together engineers, architects, and technical leaders to explore how AI is changing the landscape of software development. Practitioners share their insights on successes and failures when AI is incorporated into daily workflows, emphasizing the significance of context, validation, and cultural adaptation in making AI a sustainable element of modern engineering practices.
By Arthur Casals, Mariia Bulycheva, May Walter, Phil Calçado, Andreas KolleggerIn this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with David Gudeman about software architecture for startups. The discussion starts by illuminating how to make decisions with imperfect information, and how uncertainty and ambiguity flow through all aspects of developing the architecture. This leads to analyzing how the architect must focus on both product strategy and technical decisions.
By David Gudeman
Innovative programmer Steve Klabnik, known for his contributions to Rust, unveils Rue, a new systems programming language that enhances memory safety without garbage collection. Designed with developer ergonomics in mind, Rue leverages "inout" parameters to simplify ownership management while collaborating with Anthropic's Claude AI to expedite development. Explore Rue at rue-lang.dev.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
FunctionGemma is a new, lightweight version of the Gemma 3 270M model, fine-tuned to translate natural language into structured function and API calls, enabling AI agents to "do more than just talk" and act.
By Sergio De Simone
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