Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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OpenAI recently announced the latest version of their GPT AI foundation model, GPT-4o. GPT-4o is faster than the previous version of GPT-4 and has improved capabilities in handling speech, vision, and multilingual tasks, outperforming all models except Google's Gemini on several benchmarks.
By Anthony AlfordJEP 467, Markdown Documentation Comments, has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23. This feature proposes to enable JavaDoc documentation comments to be written in Markdown rather than a mix of HTML and JavaDoc @ tags. This will allow for documentation comments that are easier to write and read in source form.
By A N M Bazlur RahmanAn Australian superannuation fund manager, UniSuper, using Google Cloud for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) contract, found it had no disaster recovery (DR) recourse when the entire infrastructure subscription was deleted.
By Steef-Jan WiggersThis article describes an experiment that sought to determine if no-cost LLM-based code generation tools can improve developer productivity. The experiment evaluated several LLMs by generating unit tests for some open-source code and measuring the code coverage as well as the manual rework necessary to make the tests work.
By Glenn EngstrandOne year after its 1.0 release, Podman Desktop announced the Podman AI Lab plugin promising to help developers start working with Large Language Models on their machines. Podman AI Lab streamlines LLM workflows featuring generative AI exploration, built-in recipe catalogue, curated models, local model serving, OpenAI-compatible API, code snippets, and playground environments.
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