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Get Hip With JHipster ... and a free book!

Matt Raible just published the slide deck to his JHipster talk. What's JHipster? Check out Matt's talk here:…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 13, 2015 at 11:59am — No Comments

Java One is a Wrap!

JavaOne 2015

Java One 2015 happened this week. There were so many interesting sessions you could nearly throw a dart at a dartboard with topics and go to the one you selected at random. For starters, here's a link to descriptions of the keynotes. And, you can check out the session descriptions …

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Added by Michael Levin on October 31, 2015 at 2:45pm — No Comments

Data Science - Salaries and References

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I'm currently looking into big data because it's very interesting to me.

Claire Corthell published a Data Science curriculum that is like an encyclopedia. …

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Added by Michael Levin on October 31, 2015 at 2:00pm — No Comments

movie recommendations with Spark machine learning

Tutorial on Apache Spark, movie recommendations with machine learning 

This post discusses building a recommendation model from movie ratings using an iterative algorithm and parallel processing with Apache Spark MLlib.

https://dzone.com/links/parallel-and-iterative-processing-for-machine-lear.html

Added by Carol McDonald on August 4, 2015 at 11:15am — No Comments

JDK 8 Massive Open and Online Course: Lambdas and Streams Introduction

Are you aware that Oracle is offering a FREE course entitled "JDK 8 Massive Open and Online Course: Lambdas and Streams Introduction"?



Simon Ritter, Manager of the Oracle Java Technology Evangelist team will teach it.



The dates: 14-JUL-2015 03:00:00 PM GMT End Date: 4-AUG-2015 07:00:00 PM GMT



Java SE 8 (JDK 8) introduced a fundamentally new way of programming in Java with the introduction of Lambda expressions.

Lambda provides a simple way to pass…

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Added by Michael Levin on July 5, 2015 at 7:30am — 4 Comments

The IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

What do you think of when you think about the IETF? Are you clear about what it is? Have you ever wanted to attend a meeting? Well, your big chance is right around the corner because the IETF is meeting in Prague next month. Prague is where the Velvet Revolution occurred. The Good Soldier Sviek hung out there.…

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Added by Michael Levin on June 16, 2015 at 7:31am — No Comments

JavaOne

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Perhaps this is old news for you, but JavaOne San Francisco registration is live. Various saving options are available leading up to the conference, and to take advantage of the current US$600 in savings registration needs to be completed by May 31st, 2015 (11:59pm PT).



I encourage you to read through the registration options by visiting the JavaOne registration site:…

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Added by Michael Levin on April 24, 2015 at 11:00am — No Comments

An Inside Look at the Components of a Recommendation Engine

Recommendation engines help narrow your choices to those that best meet your particular needs.  In this post, we’re going to take a closer look at how all the different components of a recommendation engine work together. We’re going to use collaborative filtering on movie ratings data to recommend movies. The key components are a collaborative filtering algorithm in Apache Mahout to build and train a machine learning model,…

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Added by Carol McDonald on April 13, 2015 at 9:14am — 1 Comment

I Write Like - Analyzes Writing Style

I Write Like is a website that analyzes your writing and suggests a writer your style is similar to.

The result is an answer like this:…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 16, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments

UBOS ::: a new Linux distribution you'll love

Our friends at LinuxJournal ( hi Doc) posted this fascinating article about Ubos I'm sure many of you will enjoy:



http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/youre-boss-ubos

"UBOS focuses on making the administration of home servers much simpler", says Johannes Ernst.

From Doc's article:

"Says Johannes:

My goal is to make the administration…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 15, 2015 at 8:55am — No Comments

Open Source Bridge Conference Call For Papers

Open Source Bridge is a software conference in Portland that equips you for the whole year with news and information to help you be the best developer you can be...and collaborate. Here's some info, and tomorrow night I'll raffle off a free…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 10, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments

GatorJUG Tomorrow at First Magnitude Brewing

I ran into Steve from First Magnitude at Ward's yesterday. Sure am looking forward to tomorrow's GatorJUG. Last time, a couple of developers from Opie Software just happened to be there. I'll have a few interesting new books to talk about, one in particular is called "If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript". Adam…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 10, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments

Java 7 EOL

Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).

As outlined in the Oracle JDK Support Roadmap, after April 2015, Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 7 to its public download sites.

This might be a good time to read …

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Added by Adam Davis on March 4, 2015 at 10:22pm — No Comments

Starting and Running Your Own Company, by Matt Raible

My good bud Matt just published an article about his business and I think it's worth sharing: http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/how_to_setup_your_own1

Matt's sees consistent success for a few reasons. One: he is passionate about the technology. You can't go far in a business with…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 3, 2015 at 11:00am — No Comments

Hot New Language (Groovy)

Slightly modified from original posthttp://adamldavis.com/

There’s a hot new programming language that I’m excited about. It can be used dynamically or statically-typed, your choice. It supports functional programming constructs, including first-class functions, currying, and more. It has multiple-inheritance, type inference, and meta-programming. It also integrates really well…

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Added by Adam Davis on February 28, 2015 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Phone Software Entrepreneurs? Under 30 Forbes List

Forbes published an under 30 tech list featuring entrepreneurs who've made it big. Read about it …

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Added by Michael Levin on January 27, 2015 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Getting Started With Android

Interested in Android programming? Here's a nice, recent article at Lifehacker outlining good, free resources to get you going. http://lifehacker.com/i-want-to-write-android-apps-where-do-i-start-1643818268 ;

Added by Michael Levin on January 22, 2015 at 11:05am — No Comments

Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle

Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 20, 2015 at 10:23am — No Comments

Speak at OSCON!

Here's a message from O'Relly about OSCON 2015:

We're deep into planning OSCON 2015 and we've got some exciting news: OSCON is changing. We're no longer beating the drum and…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 11:47am — No Comments

O'Reilly Solid Conference CFP closes 1/20!

The O'Reilly Solid conference is in San Diego in June and it's all about the merging of HW/SW for the IoT. Want to get involved? The Call for Papers is open and there are loads of benefits in giving a presentation for an O'Reilly conference., Take it from me! It's a great thing to do for the community and you learn a ton…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments

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Presentation: Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible Without Pair Programming: Lessons From SpareBank 1 and SINTEF in Norway

Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom and Ola Hast unravel the powerful synergy between pair programming and continuous delivery. They explain how this shift allowed their team to abandon traditional hurdles like excessive WIP, lengthy pull requests, and multiple test environments, leading to ultra-fast deployments, superior code quality, and a highly cohesive, efficient engineering team.

By Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom, Ola Hast

AWS Lambda Gains Native Avro and Protobuf Support for Kafka Events with Schema Registry Integration

Lambda now natively supports Apache Avro and Protobuf events, streamlining Kafka event processing - an enhancement that eliminates the need for custom deserialization, automates schema validation and filtering, and optimizes costs through efficient event handling. Integration with AWS Glue and Confluent registries simplifies development, allowing cleaner data consumption and enhanced scalability.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: Building Strategic Influence as a Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager

To increase your impact and grow your career, you need to be involved in conversations that happen at a greater scope than the scope you have in your current role. Being involved will give you influence over this, help you direct and maximise your impact, and also allow you to bring better context to your day job, and to those working around you.

By Mark Allen

Podcast: From Code to Strategy: Drive Organizational Impact Through Strategic Conversations and User Focus

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mark Allen about how engineers can expand their influence through strategic conversations, user-focused development practices, and excellence in incident management. Mark emphasizes the importance of building cross-organizational relationships and working on meaningful problems with positive impact.

By Mark Allen

MicroProfile 7.1 Delivers Updates to Their Telemetry and Open API Specifications

Ten months after the release of MicroProfile 7.0, the MicroProfile Working Group has released version 7.1 of MicroProfile to the Java community. This new release features continued alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and updates to two community-developed core APIs.

By Michael Redlich