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Interview with James Gosling, father of Java and Java Champion, on the history of Java, his work at Liquid Robotics, Netbeans, the future of Java and what he sees as the next revolutionary trend in the computer industry.
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Here's more on the www.healthcare.gov website issues:
From the NYTimes:
"Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, gave an opening statement at a House hearing on the troubled rollout of HealthCare.gov."
Here's a link to a video about what to watch for in the proceedings: …
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60 or so sessions are now available with more to come:
http://www.oracle.com/javaone/sessions/index.html
Thanks to Joe for the link (Jaxjug)…
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Healthcare.gov - What's up with it? Yes, the politics are interesting, but from a software development perspective, the SDLC and issues with www.healthcare.gov are fascinating! Check out the interview with John…
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We wanted to expose a B2B intelligence platform built on more than one million company profiles to an LLM client through an MCP server so a user can ask “find SaaS companies in Germany with 50-200 employees” and receive results through the LLM client. The engineering problem was: How do you make that workflow useful without creating an unsafe bridge between an LLM and production data?
By Shadi ElyafiMichael Stiefel spoke to Baruch Sadogursky about software architecture in the age of agentic AI. LLM can function, albeit stochastically, as reasoning machines capable of interpreting human ambiguity. With the appropriate rigorous context artifacts to control the LLM’s reasoning, software specifications can become the source of truth, while the code becomes a disposable intermediate language.
By Baruch Sadogursky
Stéphane Di Cesare and Cat Morris share how engineers can move from being a "cost center" to a value driver using product discovery. They explain the "Double Diamond" framework and why identifying user problems must precede building solutions. Learn to choose the right metrics, build customer empathy through shadowing, and use business context to maximize the impact of your technical work.
By Cat Morris, Stéphane Di Cesare
Cloudflare and Stripe launched a protocol that lets AI agents autonomously create cloud accounts, register domains, start subscriptions, and deploy to production. Stripe handles identity and payment with a $100/month default cap. No other major cloud provider offers comparable agent-driven account provisioning.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
The Navigation API is a new interface for managing client-side navigation in single-page applications, now available in major browsers as of January 2026. It addresses limitations of the prior History API by providing a unified event model and improved history management. Key features include the navigate event, automatic URL updates, and integrated error handling.
By Daniel Curtis
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