August 2009 Blog Posts (5)

GatorJUG Talk in Rich User Interfaces a Success

James Ward of Adobe Software gave a brilliant talk last night at the Gainesville Java User Group. We met at beautiful Santa Fe College north of town. Just walking across campus was a pleasant experience with the tall trees and Spanish moss draping from their branches.



Prior to the meeting, James and I dropped by the… Continue

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

Jim Baker, Josh Juneau, Leo Soto, Frank Wierzbicki and Victor Ng have just announced that 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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InfoQ Reading List

Presentation: No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS

Po Linn Chia shares the sociotechnical journey of ClassPass, moving from a flaky, homegrown testing framework to a dynamic routing architecture on ECS. She discusses leveraging Traefik and OpenTelemetry baggage to enable "shadow mains" and ephemeral feature testing. This talk provides a pragmatic blueprint for engineering leaders to increase developer velocity with a lean platform team.

By Po Linn Chia

Article: Preventing Data Exfiltration: A Practical Implementation of VPC Service Controls at Enterprise Scale in Google Cloud Platform

Implementing VPC Service Controls is more about people and process than technology. Organizations must conduct extensive upfront discovery, use phased rollouts to avoid breaking production systems, and design VPC Service Controls that enable rather than block work. Success requires automation, clear exception processes, tracking both security and business metrics, and continuous improvement.

By Shijin Nair

Podcast: [Video Podcast] AI-Driven Development with Olivia McVicker

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current, mainstream AI coding assistants and gets into where those tools are quickly heading. They then look to the future of how the entire software development lifecycle will see the benefits of AI in the next few years.

By Olivia McVicker

Microsoft Releases Azure Functions Support for Model Context Protocol Servers

Microsoft has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Azure Functions, ensuring secure, standardized workflows for AI agents. With built-in OBO authentication and streamable HTTP transport, it addresses key security concerns. Now supporting multiple languages and self-hosting, MCP empowers developers to deploy with ease while safeguarding sensitive data.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

GitLab 18.8 Marks General Availability of the Duo Agent Platform

GitLab 18.8 brings a number of new features, including GitLab Duo Planner Agent, GitLab Duo Security Analyst Agent, auto-dismiss irrelevant vulnerabilities, and more. With this release, the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, enabling organizations to orchestrate AI agents, reaches general availability.

By Sergio De Simone

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