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Meet your Java neighbors in W Africa!
Interested in meeting some colleagues in West Africa? SeneJUG is the West African Java User Group. Members come from Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, Morocco and many other countries in Africa. France, too! Many of our group already live in Dakar, Senegal's beautiful capital, because of the stellar Polytechnic University of Dakar. Our advisor, Alex…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on October 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Google Voice
"You are invited to open a free Google Voice account. If you haven't already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your current phones much better!
Here's what it offers:
* A personal phone number that rings all of your existing phones when people call
* All of your voicemail in one inbox with unlimited online storage and free voicemail transcripts… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on October 13, 2009 at 9:48am — No Comments
What Will Happen to Java?
Overheard at Oracleworld: @johnkwaters RT Gosling at #Oracle OpenWorld: What will happen to Java? Oracle is committed.... "I'm not worried about their stewardship..."…
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Added by Michael Levin on October 12, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments
How to use Delicious on an iPhone
Ever want to bookmark a website while browsing on your iPhone? It's easy. First, just bookmark the "Post to Delicious" link on your iPhone browser. Then, select that bookmark to save the URL of the website you're currently browsing. Sweet!
Added by Michael Levin on September 29, 2009 at 2:06pm — No Comments
Jython 2.5.1 Final!
Jython team member FrankWierzbicki (@fwierzbicki) reports that Jython 2.5.1 is final! Jython is Python for the Java Platform.
You can discuss it in… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on September 26, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments
OrlandoJUG Lightning Talks
We met and enjoyed a pot luck dinner. There was more than enough food for everyone.
The approach we took for the talks was to post our topics on the whiteboard, then spend about 5 minutes on each topic. A question and answer session… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2009 at 11:05am — No Comments
The Art of Community
, by Jono Bacon.… Added by Michael Levin on September 18, 2009 at 9:15am — No Comments
GatorJUG Talk in Rich User Interfaces a Success
Added by Michael Levin on August 27, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments
Flex Jam in Orlando with James Ward
(photos by Mike Levin - click to see photo album)
The Flex Jam with James Ward and company is going well! Will we see you for James's Flex talks at tomorrow night's… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on August 25, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment
SeneJUG July '09 - Scrum Presentation
The Senejug July meeting featured a presentation on Scrum.
Read the rest here, in SeneJUG Town and participate in the discussion, if you… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on August 21, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments
The Definitive Guide to Jython
is available for pre-order!
Read the rest… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on August 19, 2009 at 5:40pm — No Comments
Code to Live or Live to Code?
Lamine Ba, co-chairman of the SeneJUG, is a talented developer and businessman. Work hard, play hard!
Read the rest here, in SeneJUG…
Added by Michael Levin on August 19, 2009 at 4:38pm — No Comments
Crowdsourcing, Threadless and Web2.0
Threadless on WGN - Around Town from Threadless.com on Vimeo.
You've no doubt heard the term crowdsourcing. Jeff Howe popularized the word in this Wired article and with his book,… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on July 3, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments
How to enable internet tethering on iPhone 3.0
Added by Michael Levin on July 1, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments
New Computer Guide
The following guide will help you to answer the questions of what you need, what do I upgrade, and more.
The first thing you need to consider is what you will be doing with the computer. Will you need to store a lot of video, pictures, and music? Will this be a media center PC? Or will this computer just be a basic email, websurfing, and word processing… Continue
Added by Tim Stevesi on June 18, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments
Getting Started with Arduino
I just went to the Maker Faire in the Bay Area with my friend Michael Hauser. The expo was filled with Arduino products! Getting Started with Arduino (Make: Projects)
coincidentally… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on June 14, 2009 at 5:03pm — 1 Comment
Hi from JavaOne!
If you're here at J1 and want to share your experiences with Codetown, please upload photos, videos, blogposts, etc and tag them "javaone09"
I'll do my… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on June 1, 2009 at 7:32pm — No Comments
SOA Design Patterns
Added by Sunny Wear on May 21, 2009 at 5:19pm — 4 Comments
Open Source Bridge
Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages, and backgrounds to explore how we do our work, and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on May 20, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments
Chuck Norris java jokes
Chuck Norris can make a class that is both abstract and final.
Chuck Norris serializes objects straight into human skulls.
Chuck Norris doesn’t deploy web applications, he roundhouse kicks them into the server.
Chuck Norris always uses his own design patterns, and his favorite is the Roundhouse Kick.
Chuck Norris could use anything in java.util.* to kill you, including the javadocs.
Chuck Norris can hit you so hard… Continue
Added by Nemanja Nesic - NEM- on May 20, 2009 at 11:26am — No Comments
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