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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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Helm Improves Kubernetes Package Management with Biggest Release in 6 Years
Helm, the Kubernetes application package manager, has officially reached version 4.0.0. Helm 4 is the first major upgrade in six years, and also marks Helm's 10th anniversary under the guidance of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The update aims to address several challenges around scalability, security, and developer workflow.
By Matt SaundersGoogle's New LiteRT Accelerator Supercharges AI Workloads on Snapdragon-powered Android Devices
Google has introduced a new accelerator for LiteRT, called Qualcomm AI Engine Direct (QNN), to enhance on-device AI performance on Qualcomm-powered Android devices equipped with Snapdragon 8 SoCs. The accelerator delivers significant gains, offering up to a 100x speedup over CPU execution and 10x over GPU.
By Sergio De SimonePrivate AI Compute Enables Google Inference with Hardware Isolation and Ephemeral Data Design
Google announced Private AI Compute, a system designed to process AI requests using Gemini cloud models while aiming to keep user data private. The announcement positions Private AI Compute as Google's approach to addressing privacy concerns while providing cloud-based AI capabilities, building on what the company calls privacy-enhancing technologies it has developed for AI use cases.
By Vinod GojeCloudflare Introduces Remote Bindings for Local Development
Cloudflare recently announced the general availability of remote bindings for local development. Remote bindings let developers connect to production, deployed resources in their Cloudflare account, rather than using local simulations.
By Renato LosioAWS Distributed Tracing Service X-Ray Transitions to OpenTelemetry
AWS recently announced that AWS X-Ray is transitioning to OpenTelemetry as its primary instrumentation standard for application tracing, with the AWS X-Ray SDKs and Daemon moving to maintenance mode.
By Renato Losio
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