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.…

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…

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.

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…

Attention, people interested in technology in Africa.

This article is much more realistic than most of the…

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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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…

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…

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…

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

NightHacking Tour

The Road to Devoxx - Oct 29 to Nov 11 2012

Featured Interviews:

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

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…

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…

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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Here's something new - Coders for Africa have a radio show on the web. Lamine Ba of the West African JUG is featured ... among other surprises. Have a listen. This is how it goes in Africa! …

We had a great time, ate lots of pizza and learned a lot about mobile programming at the May GatorJUG meeting with Kevin Neelands at Santa Fe College. Kevin brought his computer loaded up with Eclipse and the Android dev environment.
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