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Introduction to Compact Keyboards
Welcome to the world of compact keyboards! These small form factor keyboards are a game-changer when it comes to…
Blog 50% Keyboard Guide: Tiny Typists' Delight 1 LikeSeptember 2019
June 2019
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…
Blog Some thoughts on licensing from Google's Chris DiBona 1 LikeNovember 2017
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 LikeJune 2016
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 LikeMay 2016
March 2016
The Devoxx Poland call for papers closed!
es 3/31/16.…
Blog Devoxx Poland 1 LikeNovember 2015
Matt Raible just published the slide deck to his JHipster talk. What's…
August 2015
Tutorial on Apache Spark, movie recommendations with machine learning
This post discusses building a…
March 2015
Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).
Blog Java 7 EOL 1 LikeAs outlined in…
February 2015
Slightly modified from original post: http://adamldavis.com/
There’s a hot new…
Blog Hot New Language (Groovy) 2 LikesNovember 2013
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 LikeFebruary 2013
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…
July 2012
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 LikeFebruary 2012
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…
Blog Buzzword Bingo 1 LikeHappy 10th year, JCertif!
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Crossplane Reaches Production Maturity by Graduating CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has graduated Crossplane, marking a major milestone for the open-source project that turns Kubernetes into a universal control plane for cloud infrastructure. For practitioners, it signals that Crossplane is no longer an experimental idea but a production-hardened foundation for building internal platforms.
By Matt FosterRunning Java on iOS
OpenJDK is now able to build and run on iOS (and Android) as a native binary, opening the way to run unmodified Java code on mobile.
By Ben EvansKubeCon NA 2025 - Salesforce’s Approach to Self-Healing Using AIOps and Agentic AI
AIOps and Agentic AI technologies can help in developing solutions to intelligently analyze Kubernetes cluster health, automatically diagnose problems, and orchestrate issue resolutions with minimal human intervention. Vikram Venkataraman and Srikanth Rajan spoke at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025 Conference about Salesforce’s approach to self-healing systems using AIOps and AI Agents.
By Srini PenchikalaPresentation: Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun
Holly Cummins & Trisha Gee explain how to achieve the "Double Win" - boosting both developer joy and productivity. They expose the flaws of traditional metrics, identify sources of developer toil (slow builds, flaky tests), and share methods and techniques (like boredom and play) for engineering leaders and architects to unlock creativity and a 31% boost in positive-brain productivity.
By Holly Cummins, Trisha GeeHashiCorp’s New Guide Offers Practical Advice on Writing and Rightsizing Terraform Modules
In a blog post titled "How to write and rightsize Terraform modules", HashiCorp shares a comprehensive framework for creating maintainable, scalable modules in the Terraform ecosystem. Author Mitch Pronschinske draws on insights from consultant Rene Schach's HashiDays 2025 session to focus on four key pillars: module scope, code strategy, security, and testing.
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