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JavaOne is on!

The word is go. J1 is on this year. It will be at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Next year and following years it will travel abroad to places like Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

Added by Michael Levin on January 31, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

The DeVry OrlandoMobile Club

Go mobile!

Added by Michael Levin on January 30, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

OrlandoJUG on Maven Jan, '10

OrlandoJUG on Maven Jan, '10

Brian Fox gave a presentation on Maven this month at the OrlandoJUG.



OrlandoJUG on Maven Jan, '10



Maven has matured into a more user friendly tool, according to Brian. His company, Sonatype, supports Maven in the commercial… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on January 30, 2010 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

OJUG on Maven this Thursday



We have an interesting meeting coming up this Thursday. We'll discuss Maven, an open source solution to keeping your versions in sync. In the past, Maven has been...well, let's say it's been a challenge to get working right. Join us this week at DeVry and see how to configure Maven painlessly. RSVP at the OJUG Event so we'll know how much pizza to order. Bring a… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on January 24, 2010 at 12:15pm — No Comments

So long, old friend...

Added by Michael Levin on January 21, 2010 at 6:15pm — 3 Comments

Why Clojure?



My bud Matt Raible blogged about reading a Scala book and I mentioned Stuart Holloway's… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on January 16, 2010 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

GatorJUG Recap - January 2010



Here's a recap of last night's meeting.



Eric Lavigne won the first CodeTown Coding Contest using Clojure to develop a web based Wari game. Personally, I had an 'aha moment' during Eric's explanation of functional programming. His unbelievably good implementation of the game as a web app was done in only 100 lines of code.…



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Added by Michael Levin on January 14, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Java EE 6 "one-week" Online Codecamp (Jan. 12th-20th, 2010)

As a follow-on to the "Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3" Virtual

Conference below



http://www.sun.com/events/javaee6glassfishv3/virtualconferenc/index...



Alexis, Antonio, Arun, and Sang Shin would like invite

every Java developer to the free Java EE 6 "one-week" long

online codecamp, which is scheduled to occur during the period

of Jan. 12th (Tuesday) to Jan. 20th,… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on January 9, 2010 at 4:34pm — No Comments

Share Your Ideas ::: Folder URL Shortener



Have a great idea? Better keep it to yourself. Someone else will snatch it up and do it if you tell! On the other hand, how many great ideas go undone? So, do the right thing. If you have a great idea, tell the world. There's room for everyone. It's especially right to tell if you're not sure you can execute the idea. You can always build a better mousetrap later.



URL Shorteners are all the rage. Check out… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on January 5, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Instant Runoff Voting - Contest #2





Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is a fascinating way to run an election. The basic idea is that voters rank the candidates and the votes for the least popular candidate are automatically moved to the remaining candidates until one is selected winner.

Ready for the challenge? Read the… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on January 3, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Happy New Year



Happy New Year! What a year 2009 has been. 2010 is surely looking like an exciting time to come.



What are your thoughts about CodeTown? Is it the software community you hope for? If you have comments or suggestions, please let me know. You can post them here as comments or send me a private message.



Thanks for your contributions to CodeTown this year. It's growing, and becoming more interesting with every post you make,… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on December 31, 2009 at 3:30pm — 6 Comments

Amazon: Kindle Books Outsold Real Books This Christmas



Wired: "Happy Christmas. I got a coffee pot. You? If you got a book, it’s likely that it wasn’t made of paper. The succinct title of this Amazon press release tells the whole story: “On Christmas… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on December 29, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Contest Town Coding Contest #1 - Eric Lavigne using Clojure is Winner!



Codetown, we have a winner! Check out Eric Lavigne's winning entry to the first Codetown Coding Contest here...



Eric will describe his code at the next GatorJUG meeting. Eric tells us that he'll give a presentation on Clojure tomorrow at the next Gainesville Ruby User Group meeting (GRUG… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on December 28, 2009 at 1:07pm — No Comments

Delve into Dot Net Town



Yep, it was bound to happen. Curiosity set in and I looked to see how much this new Windows 7 thang is running. $29.95 ain't too bad. But, as we all know, that's just the beginning. The first gram is free. You and I both know that installing a new release leads to more serious drugs. I mean, apps. I mean...you know what I mean.



Anyhoo, last time I worked with Visual Studio it was pretty impressive. Visual Studio 2010 is out in beta,… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on December 25, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Google releases Public DNS

Google just announced a public DNS. Cmments?

Added by Michael Levin on December 4, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

What is Google Wave?



I've been nominated to be a beta user. Anyone working with the Wave yet?… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on December 4, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Java - Where to Begin...



I'm looking for suggestions on how I can get myself up to a reasonable level of

competence in Java. What would you recommend? I'm open to any ideas, from

self-taught methods to paid training and/or certification/degree paths.





The Jacksonville JUG mailing list has a… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on November 14, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3: Paving the path for future



Arun Gupta of Sun recently gave a presentation on JEE and Glassfish at the Silicon Valley Codecamp '09. Read the rest here...in JEE Town.

Added by Michael Levin on November 4, 2009 at 3:40am — No Comments

Wikipedia Place


We just had Brion Vibber in town and he gave a talk for the OrlandoJUG - so many of you couldn't attend the talk. And, lots of questions resulted from the discussions. There's a group here on Codetown we're calling Wikipedia Place to capture this info. Join in!

Added by Michael Levin on November 2, 2009 at 5:29am — No Comments

PingMe - Brainstorming!


I'm doing some brainstorming and want your input: read about it here, on my Swampcast blog.

Added by Michael Levin on October 20, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

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