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September 2019

IBM is moving OpenPower Foundation to The Linux Foundation

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June 2019

OSCON Free Expo Pass! ‪We're proud to partner with #OSCON in Portland, July 15–18. Want to join in but can't be there for the entire event? Grab a free Expo Plus pass using code EXPOPASS- but hurry, only a limited number… Blog OSCON Free Expo Pass! 1 Like Some thoughts on licensing from Google's Chris DiBona

Chris DiBona is the director of open source at Google, and he's been taking a big part in the open source and Free software ecosystem for a very long time--not least in his role with Google's…

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November 2017

Let's talk about new Java APIs!

Hello folks,

Want to hear about new Java APIs and some of the decisions made at the recent…

Blog Let's talk about new Java APIs! 1 Like

June 2016

Why use Amazon EC2 (AWS) Container Services (Docker)

Why use Amazon's container service?

We all experience a common set of tasks when working in IT shops. Someone gets delegated…

Blog Why use Amazon EC2 (AWS) Container Services (Docker) 1 Like

May 2016

Meeting Mycroft: An Open AI Platform You Can Order Around By Voice

Blog Meeting Mycroft: An Open AI Platform You Can Order Around By Voice 1 Like Talking With Mycroft Developer Ryan Sipes at…

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March 2016

Devoxx Poland

The Devoxx Poland call for papers closed!

es 3/31/16.…

Blog Devoxx Poland 1 Like

November 2015

Get Hip With JHipster ... and a free book!

Matt Raible just published the slide deck to his JHipster talk. What's…

Blog Get Hip With JHipster ... and a free book! 2 Likes Lamine Ba and Mike Levin head to Google HQ

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August 2015

movie recommendations with Spark machine learning

Tutorial on Apache Spark, movie recommendations with machine learning

This post discusses building a…

Blog movie recommendations with Spark machine learning 1 Like

March 2015

Java 7 EOL

Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).

As outlined in…

Blog Java 7 EOL 1 Like

February 2015

Hot New Language (Groovy)

Slightly modified from original post: http://adamldavis.com/

There’s a hot new…

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November 2013

FLEX goes to Apache

Not familiar with FLEX but this article has some interesting info on it. Another tool in the web developer's toolbox?…

Blog FLEX goes to Apache 1 Like

February 2013

Responsive Web Design? What's that? - Exploring NODE.JS

It may not adhere to the strict Java format of OJUG but was quite useful in learning more of the growing tools available to the web based developer.

Jackie Gleason answered this and…

Blog Responsive Web Design? What's that? - Exploring NODE.JS 1 Like

July 2012

JavaFX and SteelSeries gauges using FXML

Gerrit Grunwald, aka @hansolo_ on twitter, has just ported his Swing based gauges and meters framework known as …

Blog JavaFX and SteelSeries gauges using FXML 1 Like

February 2012

Buzzword Bingo

James Ward gave a great presentation on Heroku. The server of choice for Facebook developement. He commented on some attendees not being familiar with all the buzzwords he used. So we thought…

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There's a new tool on Codetown that lets you translate the entire site to…

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Swift to Add Support for Ownership, Macros, and C++ Interop

The Swift language workgroup has detailed the main focus areas for the development of Swift in 2023 and further on, which include defining an ownership model for memory management, non-copyable types, a macro system, and C++ interoperability.

By Sergio De Simone

Enhanced Serverless Development with Terraform and AWS SAM

AWS announced support for local development and testing of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) apps defined in Hashicorp Terraform configuration files. The functionality is provided via the AWS SAM Command Line Interface (CLI) and is currently released as a public-preview.

By Nsikan Essien

Amazon EventBridge Pipes Supports Point-to-Point Integrations between Event Producers and Consumers

At re:Invent, AWS introduced Amazon EventBridge Pipes, a new feature in Amazon EventBridge providing developers a more straightforward way to connect events from multiple services.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: Colliding Communities, Cloud Native, and Telecommunications Standards

What happens when an ecosystem driven from the bottom up collides with a community characterized by top-down development? The 5g broadband cellular network standard by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) standard by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the Service Function Chain RFC (request for comments) are examples.

By W. Watson

Microsoft Open-Sources Agricultural AI Toolkit FarmVibes.AI

Microsoft Research recently open-sourced FarmVibes.AI, a suite of ML models and tools for sustainable agriculture. FarmVibes.AI includes data processing workflows for fusing multiple sets of spatiotemporal and geospatial data, such as weather data and satellite and drone imagery.

By Anthony Alford

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