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Notes from JCertif

JCertif 2010 was a superb event in Brazzaville, Congo. Read all about it here. JCertif 2011 is coming up in August. Will we see you…

Added by Michael Levin on May 20, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Office, Flash & JAVA w/Chrome browser, PDF Reader on a Virtual PC

Have any of you seen this:

 

"Now with ★ CHROME Browser and JAVA ★ support! Imagine having a computer inside your iPhone or iPad, with full-featured Office suite, copy and paste and a PC-class browser? Now you can! AlwaysOnPC is your own personal ‘virtual PC’ where can run FireFox or Chrome browsers with FLASH and JAVA (no full-motion and sound yet), a full…

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Added by Michael Levin on May 17, 2011 at 7:32am — No Comments

Drupal Case Study - Dahon Bikes

This article is a excellent case study of how a site was developed using Drupal to meet Dahon's usability and functionality requirements.

Added by Michael Levin on May 14, 2011 at 3:34am — No Comments

Open Source Bridge and Social Networks

Open Source Bridge is coming! And, it's in Portland, which is a huge bonus. I wrote about it here: http://www.jroller.com/Sandymountster/entry/enhancing_your_website_with_social in my blog.

 

I attended OSB's first conference and gave a talk on Web2.0.…

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Added by Michael Levin on May 11, 2011 at 8:01am — No Comments

My latest personal project

Hi folks,

 

It's been a while since last time I post here. I just want to share a project that I have started recently and hopefully it will benefit some of you.

 

In many places where I worked, they often needed a light, fast and standalone server like process that run easily without much hassle, compare to use a full blown JEE server. I often ended up writing the same bootstrapper service that does many of the basic things. We need logging, we need easy…

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Added by Zemian Deng on April 8, 2011 at 1:11pm — 2 Comments

Oracle sues Starbucks over Java trademark

In an aggressive move to protect the Java franchise acquired along with Sun Microsystems, Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks, charging that its use of the term "Java" infringes Oracle copyrights.

"In its reckless use of the term 'Java,' Starbucks knowingly, directly, and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for that infringement," said an Oracle spokesperson in a statement.

The suit was filed…

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Added by Michael Levin on April 1, 2011 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

JAX Innovation Awards to Reward Excellence in the Entire Java Ecosystem!!

Software and Support Ltd have launched a new worldwide award that aims to recognise the spirit on innovation in the Java ecosystem. Winners will be nominated and voted on, from the community, by the community.





Software & Support Media Group, organizers of the worldwide JAX conference series, has launched the JAX Innovation Awards 2011, a new 3-month programme designed to recognise and reward innovation within the Java Ecosystem.



By organising the JAX Innovation… Continue

Added by Jennifer Blease on March 23, 2011 at 1:01pm — No Comments

Your Startup - Web Presence

Does your startup need an elegant web presence? Some very simple websites are hugely effective. Take Hearts Brew Beer Supply for example. Hearts has a very simple website: http://www.heartshomebrew.com/ Check it out.

 

I dropped by Hearts one day and saw order fulfillment as the primary activity going…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 1, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Demo and Startup City

Demo is a conference that showcases new ideas. The idea is that people with startup ideas get 6 minutes to pitch their ideas. What's the payoff for them? Investors, of course. What's the payoff for us? There's a website with a live feed and we can watch the action on the web! Surf to www.demo.com today beginning at 9:00AM PST and be a…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 28, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

The Making of Swampcast





The Making of Swampcast ::: A video documenting the history and production of Swampcast, a podcast about "Software development, emerging technology and everything else!"

 

Contact Mike at http://www.codetown.us/profile/MichaelLevin

 

Subscribe to Swampcast at www.swampcast.com and on iTunes at… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on February 25, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

Net Neutrality ::: Updated!

"The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 23, 2011 at 4:30pm — 7 Comments

Educational demos

Just got done with some educational demos on electrons flowing in transistors It is fun to watch!

 

 

Added by Mike Zielinski on January 31, 2011 at 12:33pm — 2 Comments

Exclusive Java Programmer Certification Offer: 48 Hours Only

This just in (via Nichole Scott of Oracle - thanks, Nichole!) Oracle University has announced some VERY good discounts on a new Java Programmer Certification Preparation Live Virtual Class and certification exam voucher today.

We want to make sure all JUG members who are interested in pursuing the Java Programmer…
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Added by Michael Levin on January 25, 2011 at 8:50pm — No Comments

OSCON CFP

For thirteen years the O'Reilly Open Source Convention has been bringing together people from across the open source universe to learn, collaborate, and inspire each other. OSCON provides a central place to…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 14, 2011 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Cartographer in a new Avatar! , now supports Google Maps 3 & Rails 3

-----Original Message-----

From: bangalorerug@googlegroups.com [mailto:bangalorerug@googlegroups.com]

On Behalf Of Abhishek Parolkar

Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:12 PM

To: bangalorerug@googlegroups.com

Subject: [Bangalore RUG] Cartographer in a new Avatar! , now supports Google

Maps 3 & Rails 3



Hello All,

  Cartographer is a Google Maps wrapper that was originally written 

in 2005 when Rails tagged 0.1.  For many years people used it to … Continue

Added by Michael Levin on January 10, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

Happy Holidays and a Tree!

Added by Michael Levin on December 17, 2010 at 11:08am — 1 Comment

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for OSX; Java SE 7 and 8 JSRs Approved

This is big news: "Good news all around! Oracle and Apple announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 14, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Insanely Great Social Hooks and Innovation on this iPhone/Android App

EveryTrail impresses as a well thought out app with GPS, multimedia and social integration. Not only is it well coded and solid, but the marketing is to the point and clear as well.

Objective-C has its challenges and we certainly hear a lot about the memory management, etc... EveryTrail is on Android, too. I like how they give credit to the open source code they used to create it in their credits.

I just downloaded it. Can't…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 13, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Java applets on android tablets

Does anyone own one of the android java-based tablets? If you do, how does it compare to an iPad, and does it properly run java applets and applications? Do you need to install everything through a 'store', similar to the iTunes app store?

Added by Kevin Neelands on December 12, 2010 at 1:42pm — No Comments

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By Michael Redlich

Presentation: Accessible Innovation in XR: Maximizing the Curb Cut Effect

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Kaggle Introduces Game Arena to Benchmark AI Models in Strategic Games

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By Daniel Dominguez

Linux Security Tools Bypassed by io_uring Rootkit Technique, ARMO Research Reveals

Security researchers at ARMO have uncovered a significant vulnerability in Linux runtime security tools that stems from the io_uring interface, an asynchronous I/O mechanism that can completely bypass traditional system call monitoring. The research demonstrates how attackers can exploit this blind spot to operate undetected by most existing security solutions.

By Claudio Masolo

PagerDuty's Kafka Outage Silences Alerts for Thousands of Companies

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By Matt Saunders

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