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…

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…

Our friend Carol just published this article.

SQL will become one of the most prolific use cases in the Hadoop ecosystem, according to Forrester Research. Apache Drill is an open source SQL query engine for big data exploration. REST services and clients have emerged as popular technologies on the Internet. Apache HBase is a hugely popular Hadoop NoSQL…

Dear Codetown JUGGIES:

We have a chance for a special Ceylon talk on either Mon 10/13, Fri 10/17, Mon 10/20, or Fri 10/24 in Orlando at OrlandoJUG and/or Gainesville at GatorJUG. 

As you all know, OJUG meets 4th Th and GatorJUG meets 2nd Wed and these are Mondays and Fridays, so I need your…

If you're a JUG member, the JavaOne event team wants you to know there's a special discount for you:

"We are offering our JUG’s a special discount for the month of June to 

register for JavaOne 2014. The discount will provide an additional $200 

savings off the current Early Bird price of $1,650. This…

These days, it's hard to stick with just one language. Sure, you may be a Java developer or a Rubyist and "not interested" in learning another language. We tend to get comfortable in our comfort zone. But, being a polyglot has its advantages.

Tim Crowley just presented at SunJUG and…

Brian Street and I did a presentation on Boxen for configuring our developer's laptops: http://jdigger.github.io/boxen-slides/

Spring Boot helps kick start your apps. Ken Krueger gave a Boot talk last night at GatorJUG. This was 2 solid hours that encapsulated what would have taken much longer to learn on your own. He uploaded his slides here:…

Guess you know about all the resources and video cast Oracle provided

at the Java 8 Launch site:

http://www.oracle.com/events/us/en/java8/index.html



On top of that we have released all Java 8 talks from Jfokus 2014

including the Keynote with Georges Saab and Mark Reinhold.



Except the talks from a number of Oracle speakers you can find these

and many more:

-Java 8 Language…

We envision Codetown to be a free flow of ideas and questions in addition to a networking tool we also post events on. Here's an interesting take on participation and intimidation on Stack Overflow. Ideas? Comments? …

OSCON is the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. And, it's right around the corner! The call for papers just occurred. It is an annual event that occurs in Portland, OR and this year it's July…

Hi All - 

Sorry for the last minute notice, but the virtual JUG meetup on web frameworks with Matt Raible is going to start in an hour.

Details here: http://www.meetup.com/virtualJUG/events/153096902/

FYI!

All the best,

Mike 

Excellent, and funny too

http://blog.aegisub.org/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html?m=1

Did you know Swampcast has interviews with Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, Brion Vibber, former CTO of Wikipedia, Pandora's CEO and CTO and more? Here's the story of Swampcast:…

Engine Yard created an infographic that will help you learn about node.js:

"Node.js is a server-side framework for JavaScript that has…

Many of you probably know Dave - he wants some feedback on Magnolia and so do I. http://www.magnolia-cms.com/product/features/overview.html It's open and full featured and I like it. WHat do you know about it?…