November 2011 Blog Posts (7)

GIS in the Cloud - the ESRI Example

Sunrise in the swamp

Great article here...

"Has your organization realized the potential of cloud computing yet? For users of geographic information system (GIS) technology, the cloud opens a number of new uses like weather forecasting, sales analysis, population…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 29, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

Codetown's Facebook page

Hey, everyone:

 

We have a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/codetown - if you haven't joined yet, please do. We'll post events, links to articles and discussions on Codetown and also links to articles outside the group, like this:

So, once you like the Facebook page, you'll get a stream of updates from…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 24, 2011 at 9:33am — No Comments

Opening Call for Proposal - RubyConf India 2012

This just in from Satish N Kota of the Bangalore RUG: 

 

"Hello Folks,





Lets begin the begin and in that spirit, call for talk proposals is

open for RubyConf India 2012. Interested folks can head over to:…



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Added by Michael Levin on November 24, 2011 at 9:21am — No Comments

Mike Levin ::: Java Champion

Mike has been elected Java Champion!

http://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/new_java_champion_michael_levin

Added by Michael Levin on November 21, 2011 at 12:40pm — 4 Comments

Objective C and Android

Here is a link to a presentation I put together for compiling Objective C using the Android NDK. Maybe someone will find it interesting...

 

Added by Jackie Gleason on November 20, 2011 at 1:27pm — No Comments

***Free*** Hudson book

Interested in Hudson? (or in finding out what it is) - check out this free book! Thanks to Frans Thamura all the way from Java,…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 15, 2011 at 8:40am — No Comments

No Flash for Mobile

Details here.

 

Additional details:

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Added by Michael Levin on November 10, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

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