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Contest - Most valuable JVM article of Q1

We launched a contest to give kudos to all people who are writing

about Java these days. If you want to take a part, please read more

here (http://javaweeklybytes.com/q1.html) and submit your article

until the end of this month. (from Bogomil…

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Added by Michael Levin on April 10, 2012 at 11:10am — No Comments

Google EMEA travel and conferences (incl. GeeCON) grants for Women

Google is offering grants for women to different conferences (including ours GeeCON 2012). Check outhttp://2012.geecon.org/women and http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/proscho/scholarships/emea/travelgrants/

Thanks to Adrian Nowak of the Polish…

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Added by Michael Levin on April 5, 2012 at 8:30am — No Comments

JavaOne Hyderabad

If you are interested in attending JavaOne Hyderabad on May 3-4, the early-bird registration ends on April 2nd.



The registration link is:

http://www.oracle.com/javaone/in-en/register/index.html



Early Bird…
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Added by Michael Levin on March 28, 2012 at 7:47am — No Comments

ThoughtWorks Radar

There's a new ThoughtWorks Radar out,  http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar It's a market intelligence report that looks at the IT industry and languages, technologies as a whole and shows statistics about them in relation to each other. It's a good way to see a high level view of what's going on. Thanks to Marcelo of the …

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Added by Michael Levin on March 20, 2012 at 9:09am — No Comments

Africa Android Challenge - Submissions are in!

Check out these cool submissions to the Africa Android Challenge:

http://www.androidchallenge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49

The Africa Android Challenge is an opportunity to discover the best developers and Android…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 19, 2012 at 2:20pm — No Comments

Congo's deadly arms depot blasts (Donate to Congo)



@Leaders : please share this message within your communities


To all IT communities in Africa,
This is a great initiative from Lamine, the JUG Manager of Senegal



Many of you have probably heard this sad news from Congo, Brazzaville about the accidental arms depot blasts…
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Added by Max Bonbhel on March 6, 2012 at 1:02pm — No Comments

The Java Posse

Introducing The Java Posse! Check out this podcast from 4 guys who know the score when it comes to software development:

Java Posse #337 - Codemash 2011…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 25, 2012 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Cloud Computing Talk by James Ward

James Ward

James Ward came to Florida and gave a talk on cloud computing for the GatorJUG in Gainesville and the OrlandoJUG this week.

What a great presenter! James gave us such an informative talk. The very first slide of his presentation impressed me practically more than anything else. It described current (newer) trends in software development like continuous…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 24, 2012 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

Buzzword Bingo

James Ward gave a great presentation on Heroku.  The server of choice for Facebook developement.  He commented on some attendees not being familiar with all the buzzwords he used.  So we thought of a Buzzword Bingo game. 

I think having a handout with the most common buzzwords especially any the speaker is likely to use would be useful.  I have always thought having a handout about the speaker and topic would be a good idea.  I have never had the time to actually create such a useful…

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Added by Dan Lackey on February 23, 2012 at 9:17am — 1 Comment

Translate Codetown to Another Language

There's a new tool on Codetown that lets you translate the entire site to different languages. Give it a try! You will see it on the righthand column. Hope this helps all you non-English as a first language people. All the best, Michael

Added by Michael Levin on February 20, 2012 at 6:12am — 2 Comments

How to be a tireless volunteer and actually make an impact - Max Bonbhel

Max Bonbhel is an organizer of Africa JUG, Congo JUG and tireless volunteer. He describes his work over the past year in this blog post:

http://bonbhel.blogspot.com/2012/02/2011-what-i-did.html

Bravo,…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 16, 2012 at 7:37am — 2 Comments

Global Android Dev Camp + Africa Android Training (Programme complet)

Bonjour à tous,



Africa Android Training sera de la partie pour Global Android Dev Camp ! 

Mais nous allons proposer quelque chose de plus original qu'un simple Hackathon “classic” !

Africa Android Training propose 2 jours de formation Android en ligne non-stop!



Vous pouvez ainsi participer peut importe où vous êtes ! 



Sujet :



Jour 1 : Services, Location and Maps 

Jour 2 : Web Services, XML and…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 15, 2012 at 8:24am — No Comments

Bangalore Android Group Live - Devfest

The Bangalore Android Group announces:

Please find the schedule for the hangouts as a part of Android Dev fest below.

Watch it live @ www.ustream.tv/channel/blrdroid

Tuesday

    1700 ~ 1745  : Amrit – ”  Location based services…
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Added by Michael Levin on February 14, 2012 at 7:30am — No Comments

Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs

If a new proposal by Oracle is accepted, oversight of Java technical standards will fall under the auspices of a single committee, rather than the current system, which has separate entities for Java EE/SE and ME.

Java SE and EE concern desktop and server environments while ME is for mobile and embedded uses of Java.

Read more …

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Added by Michael Levin on January 27, 2012 at 12:26pm — No Comments

Oracle JUG Leaders Summit

Jug leaders summit news: http://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/jug_leaders_summit

Added by Michael Levin on January 25, 2012 at 5:48pm — No Comments

Generatrix - Java Interface Samples

This post will soon contain several Java interfaces for something called a Generatrix. It is the subject of a research article I have submitted to an upcoming IEEE conference. The sample code here will be a supplement to the article for the benefit of the review team and readers, if the article is accepted.

 

Stand By.

Added by Juan Rolando Reza on January 8, 2012 at 6:56pm — No Comments

Craig Newmark of Craigslist

What's Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, up to these days? Tune into Swampcast, a podcast from the Swamp, and find out.

Added by Michael Levin on December 25, 2011 at 10:39am — No Comments

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

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By Robert Krzaczyński

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Using Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing

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By Ben Linders

QCon London 2025: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

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By Steef-Jan Wiggers

QCon London: Bringing DevOps Principles to Controls and Audit

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By Matt Saunders

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