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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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AWS has recently introduced VPC Encryption Controls, allowing customers to validate whether traffic within and between VPCs is encrypted and to require encryption where supported. The feature provides visibility into unencrypted traffic, supports enforcement using compatible Nitro-based infrastructure, and allows exclusions for resources that cannot encrypt traffic.
By Renato Losio
Claude Code's creator Boris Cherny described how he uses it at Anthropic, highlighting practices such as running parallel instances, sharing learnings, automating prompting, and rigorously verifying results to compound productivity over time.
By Sergio De Simone
NVIDIA has released a set of open models, datasets, and development tools covering language, agentic systems, robotics, autonomous driving, and biomedical research. The update expands several existing NVIDIA model families and makes accompanying training data and reference implementations available through GitHub, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA’s developer platforms.
By Robert Krzaczyński
MongoDB recently patched CVE-2025-14847, a vulnerability affecting multiple supported and legacy MongoDB Server versions. According to the disclosure, the flaw can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers with low complexity, potentially leading to the exfiltration of sensitive data and credentials.
By Renato Losio
Somtochi Onyekwere explains the architecture of Corrosion, a distributed system designed for low-latency state replication. She shares how Fly.io transitioned from Consul to a gossip-based SQLite solution to handle global machine data. By discussing CRDTs, the SWIM protocol, and QUIC, she shares how to build resilient systems that prioritize speed while managing the complexities of CAP theorem.
By Somtochi Onyekwere
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