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July 2011 Blog Posts (9)
Hot Air Balloon Launch - Open Source
Posted by GatorLUG on behalf of Richard Brooks.
The program that I'm working with is SSTP. In this program the kids do research with the professors and also get to pick a sub-topic of interest. I'm part of the Small Satellite group. There are 13 kids that chose this topic this year.
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Added by Michael Levin on July 28, 2011 at 12:20pm — No Comments
EasyB
This just in from Luis Espinal of MJUG:
The EasyB syntax for writing stories and specifications is a lot more succinct than the one provided by Specs, the Scala BDD framework (at least when looked upon from a 10K foot view)
Added by Michael Levin on July 27, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments
JCertif 2011 : Java is on! Rockin' in the Congo-Brazzaville
Hi All,
As some of you already know. The next edition of JCertif is coming.
This year again the JCertif Conference will bring together developers from across Africa to learn, collaborate, and inspire each other.
This year, we're happy to announce 3 days of Java and Android training and 2 days of great talk, focusing on… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on July 26, 2011 at 9:11am — No Comments
Live streaming of Oscon 2011
Oscon 2011 is just days away from happening. For some of you, attending Oscon may not be an option. It's possible that you have other obligations, don't have a budget for it, or even don't know much about it. Well have no fear, this year Oscon 2011 will be streaming live on Codetown via the group Oscon 2011. For those of you who are curious about it, take some time to watch an hour or so. Anyone who really wanted to attend…
ContinueAdded by Anjuli Vivian Atwal on July 21, 2011 at 10:37am — No Comments
O'Reilly Oscon now features Java
The annual open source convention, simply known as Oscon, has come around for its 13th year and this year it features Oscon Java. Oscon is where developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors come together to change everyday business practices and thinking. It's a technical conference that covers a range of open source, from Linux and MySQL to middleware and cloud computing as well as anything in between.
Oscon is designed to provide informative tutorials, activities,…
ContinueAdded by Anjuli Vivian Atwal on July 19, 2011 at 1:36pm — No Comments
Class Family Accord
Class Family Accord - Abstract
An Accord class family is a hierarchy of classes for which another class hierarchy has been designated as corresponding. Class A0 is the top of the class family, class A1 extends A0, class A…
ContinueAdded by Juan Rolando Reza on July 14, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments
Google Revamps Android Market
Android's Market now has an entirely new user interface. Photo courtesy of Google
Look out, iTunes, the Android Market is…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on July 12, 2011 at 6:18pm — No Comments
Java 7
Hello Codetown!
I just got this from Oracle:
We’re Moving Java Forward. Watch the Webcast Replay of the Java 7 Launch Today.
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ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on July 12, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments
On Objective-C
Is Objective-C a step backwards in terms of memory management? Why does Apple use it despite advances in the language realm? I heard the other day that Java would give people some sort of unfair abilities in the App store. Not sure. But, people I know (Kevin Neelands, for one - check out his best selling Periodic Table of the Elements - free!)…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on July 10, 2011 at 7:30am — 7 Comments
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