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OSCON Discount Codes for User Group members

Celebrating its 15 anniversary, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) happens July 22-26, 2013 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. OSCON is the must-attend gathering of the best and brightest minds in technology. It offers five immersive days of all things open source—new and innovative projects, major enterprise-wide deployments, and—from icons of the open source movement—deep perspective on where we've been and where we're headed. OSCON features 200 sessions covering 18… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on July 17, 2013 at 9:55am — No Comments

Swampcast features Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun CEO

Join Michael Levin in this video interview with Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun Microsystems CEO. Jonathan discusses his tenure at Sun Microsystems and his current role as CEO of a startup called Carezone. He describes Carezone as a tool that compares to Facebook and LinkedIn, but is aimed toward private circles like family. He also discusses web…

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Added by Michael Levin on April 20, 2013 at 12:30am — 1 Comment

Future Internet Architecture Meeting & Webinar

CISE invites you to attend an information meeting and webinar to announce and answer questions concerning its recently released solicitation, Future Internet Architecture-Next Phase (FIA-NP: NSF 13-538) on Monday, February 11, 2013, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT. You must register at …

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Added by Michael Levin on February 9, 2013 at 7:53am — No Comments

OSCON Call for Speakers

OSCON 2013
Call for Speakers Is Open for OSCON 2013

We're looking for speakers to be part of the program for the 15th edition of OSCON, happening July 22-26, 2013, in Portland, Oregon. If you have a new idea, a better way to do something, an interesting and instructive case study (battle scars optional), or the desire to pass on your hard-won knowledge, submit a proposal to lead sessions or tutorials.

Added by Michael Levin on January 25, 2013 at 6:45pm — No Comments

Nighthacking Tour with Java Evangelist Stephen Chin

From Jan 25th to Feb 7th Stephen Chin will be traveling across the Nordic countries and doing live video streaming of the journey. Along the way he will visit user groups, interview interesting folks, and hack on open source projects. The last stop will be at Jfokus 2013.…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 23, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Is the next big thing already here?

Create or innovate. What does East know about West? A lot. We speak different languages, even use different alphabets. No problem, says Samsung. Samsung's ad dep't makes it clear, even funny. Hilarious!

Economic models are different, too. Like polar extremes. One gives you everything you need in exchange for your time. The other promises you everything you…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 22, 2013 at 7:30am — No Comments

Oracle Security Update (Java)

Oracle Security Update CVE-2013-0422
An Oracle Security Alert was issued today.  To learn more about the alert please refer to the following link.…
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Added by Michael Levin on January 14, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

What was the coolest software related event that you were a part of this year?

What was the coolest software related event that you were a part of this year? I mean either coding a feature, product or an actual event.

Added by Michael Levin on December 24, 2012 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

How to Get Business using Social Media

You can use the social API's to get new customers. One way is with Twitter's API. You can filter tweets for keywords and then friend the tweeters. That's what's happening when you tweet something and then you get followed by someone of that special interest.

I tweeted something yesterday about birds. Today, I found I was followed by @artmagenta, an artist who draws…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 9, 2012 at 9:52am — No Comments

A Realistic Look at Tech in Africa

SeneJUG 2007 Kickoff

 

 

Attention, people interested in technology in Africa.

 

This article is much more realistic than most of the…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 8, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

The Future of GWT Report

This report on GWT, "The Future of GWT", will be interesting to developers, architects and managers, too. You'll learn details about GWT's usability, its competitors and even opinions as to how it's going to stand up against Dart.

Over 1300 respondents provided data. Overall, GWT is looked upon highly by…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 4, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Nighthacking ...with Steven Chin and company (and featuring James Gosling)

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I have a virtual event to announce that you can participate in online called the NightHacking Tour.

Steven Chin is a friend and colleague of mine. He's a Java…

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Added by Michael Levin on October 23, 2012 at 6:00am — No Comments

GatorJUG November Meeting - JEE6 and CDI with Curtis McMillen

Got CDI? Wonder what dependency injection and JEE6 are all about? What the heck is Spring? RSVP, por favor. This is an event you won't want to miss! Check it out here and please RSVP so we'll know how much pizza to order. Invite your…

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Added by Michael Levin on October 16, 2012 at 8:11am — 1 Comment

GatorJUG October Meeting

A good time was had by all at our October GatorJUG meeting. Kevin Neelands discussed Android Design Patterns in the context of his recent work on the job with an Android app. The lessons learned he presented were not just interesting but huge timesavers for him. They also dramatically…

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Added by Michael Levin on October 15, 2012 at 7:00am — No Comments

Pandora and Tom Conrad (CTO)

Have you ever wondered how Pandora works? Listen to this Swampcast interview with Tom Conrad, CTO as he explains Pandora's music genome project.

Added by Michael Levin on September 29, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Nighthacking (via Stephen Chin)

NightHacking Tour

The Road to Devoxx - Oct 29 to Nov 11 2012

Featured Interviews:

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Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Omni Fluent, a free computational linguistics app

Here's an app you'll like - it's called Omni Fluent and…

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Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 11:01am — No Comments

Netbeans in Action

Netbeans is a free integrated development environment and it's not just for Java! You can use it with C++, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy. Check out some of the incredibly cool projects coded using Netbeans…

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Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 8:14am — No Comments

A new social network called Menshn

There's a new social network called Menshn. You may have heard of co-founder Louise Mensch, former member of British parliament. Her business partner is Luke Bozier, also the founder of Municipo

The idea behind Menshn is…

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Added by Michael Levin on August 20, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

OSCON 2012

I brake for people ::: Portland bumper sticker

I went to OSCON last week. It was even better than ever. There were lots of memorable moments for me this year. I'll try to capture them here, stream of consciousness.

 

*** Note *** this is a work in progress!

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Added by Michael Levin on July 31, 2012 at 9:50am — No Comments

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New NuGet.org Sponsorship Feature Enables Developers to Support Package Authors

Microsoft has announced a new Sponsorship feature on NuGet.org, designed to help package maintainers receive direct financial support from the community. As stated in the official announcement, the goal is to “make it easier than ever for consumers to recognize and support the authors behind their favorite packages,” while strengthening the overall .NET ecosystem.

By Almir Vuk

Mini book: AI Assisted Development: Real World Patterns, Pitfalls, and Production Readiness

AI is no longer a research experiment or a novelty: it is part of the software delivery pipeline. Teams are learning that integrating AI into production is less about model performance and more about architecture, process, and accountability. In this issue on AI Assisted Development, we examine what happens after the proof of concept and how AI changes the way we build, and operate systems.

By InfoQ

AWS Launches M8a General-Purpose EC2 Instances with 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) Processors

AWS has launched M8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering 30% higher performance than M7a. With enhanced I/O capabilities and up to 75 Gbps networking, they cater to high-performance applications like gaming and ML. M8a instances offer diverse deployment options, reinforcing AWS's commitment to cutting-edge cloud solutions.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

AWS Launches C8i and C8i-flex EC2 Instances Powered by Custom Intel Xeon 6

AWS has launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. Designed for compute-intensive tasks, these instances offer up to 384 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory, delivering up to 60% faster performance. The C8i-flex variant boosts cost efficiency, enhancing resource management for dynamic workloads.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: Beyond Accidental Quality: Finding Hidden Bugs with Generative Testing

Generative testing uncovers hidden software bugs by exploring the input space and verifying system invariants. This surpasses example-based tests that rely on known scenarios and can miss edge cases.

By Mourjo Sen

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