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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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DuckDB's WebAssembly Client Allows Querying Iceberg Datasets in the Browser
DuckDB has recently introduced end-to-end interaction with Iceberg REST Catalogs directly within a browser tab, requiring no infrastructure setup. The new feature leverages DuckDB-Wasm, a WebAssembly port of DuckDB that runs in the browser, allowing users to query, read, and write Iceberg tables in a serverless manner.
By Renato LosioAWS Introduces Fifth-Generation Graviton Processor with M9g Instances
AWS recently announced the new Graviton5 processor and the preview of the first EC2 instances running on it, the general-purpose M9g instances. According to the cloud provider, the latest chip delivers up to 25% higher performance than Graviton4, introduces the Nitro Isolation Engine, and provides a larger L3 cache, improving latency, memory bandwidth, and network throughput.
By Renato LosioMicrosoft Research Develops Novel Approaches to Enforce Privacy in AI Models
A team of AI researchers at Microsoft introduces two novel approaches for enforcing contextual integrity in large language models: PrivacyChecker, an open-source lightweight module that acts as a privacy shield during inference, and CI-CoT + CI-RL, an advanced training method designed to teach models to reason about privacy.
By Sergio De SimoneSwiggy Rolls out Hermes V3: from Text-to-SQL to Conversational AI
Swiggy has released Hermes V3, a GenAI-powered text-to-SQL assistant that enables employees to query data in plain English. The Slack-native system combines vector retrieval, conversational memory, agentic orchestration, and explainability to improve SQL accuracy and support multi-turn analytical queries.
By Leela KumiliAmazon S3 Vectors Reaches GA, Introducing "Storage-First" Architecture for RAG
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Vectors, increasing per-index capacity forty-fold to 2 billion vectors. By natively integrating vector search into the S3 storage engine, the service introduces a "Storage-First" architecture that decouples compute from storage, reducing total cost of ownership by up to 90% for large-scale RAG workloads.
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