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August 2009 Blog Posts (5)
GatorJUG Talk in Rich User Interfaces a Success
Added by Michael Levin on August 27, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments
Flex Jam in Orlando with James Ward
(photos by Mike Levin - click to see photo album)
The Flex Jam with James Ward and company is going well! Will we see you for James's Flex talks at tomorrow night's… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on August 25, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment
SeneJUG July '09 - Scrum Presentation
The Senejug July meeting featured a presentation on Scrum.
Read the rest here, in SeneJUG Town and participate in the discussion, if you… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on August 21, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments
The Definitive Guide to Jython
is available for pre-order!
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Added by Michael Levin on August 19, 2009 at 5:40pm — No Comments
Code to Live or Live to Code?
Lamine Ba, co-chairman of the SeneJUG, is a talented developer and businessman. Work hard, play hard!
Read the rest here, in SeneJUG…
Added by Michael Levin on August 19, 2009 at 4:38pm — No Comments
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QCon London 2026: How To Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not To
Form3 runs UK bank payments across three clouds simultaneously. At QCon London, their engineers explained how they built their custom Kubernetes operators, cross-cloud DNS tricks, and distributed databases, and what happened when they tried to sell them in America. Spoiler: US customers wanted East/West failover, not triple-active multi-cloud.
By Steef-Jan WiggersQCon London 2026: The Hidden Power of Boring Problems
At QCon London 2026, Yinka Omole, Lead Software Engineer at Personio, presented a session exploring a recurring dilemma engineers face, whether to spend time mastering the newest technologies and frameworks or to invest in deeper, foundational problems that may appear less exciting but deliver long-term value.
By Daniel DominguezDoorDash Builds DashCLIP to Align Images, Text, and Queries for Semantic Search Using 32M Labels
DoorDash has launched a multimodal machine learning system that aligns product images, text, and user queries in a shared embedding space. Trained on 32 million labeled query-product pairs using contrastive learning, the system improves semantic search, product ranking, and advertising relevance. Embeddings also support other machine learning tasks across the marketplace.
By Leela KumiliPresentation: Image Processing for Automated Tests
Stefan Dirnstorfer discusses the shift from DOM-based testing to visual UI agents. He explains why LLMs often fail at precision tasks - like spotting one-pixel shifts or broken road networks - and shares how advanced image registration and "Chain-of-Thought" vision processing are essential for reliable QA. Learn why combining generative AI with classical algorithms is the future of automation.
By Stefan DirnstorferDevnexus 2026: Focus on AI with Core Java, Java Frameworks, Security and Career Mentoring
Celebrating its 23rd year, Devnexus 2026 was held from March 4-6, 2026 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event featured speakers from the Java community who delivered workshops and talks under tracks such as: AI Generative; AI in Practice; Core Java; Java Frameworks; and Security and Developer Tools.
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