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"Thanks Mike! What a blast from the past! That Red Hat swag! ;-). Jim"
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- The "art of the start", social networks, content management systems, blogs, small business innovative research, iPhones, Android, sensors, cyber security, rules engines, podcasting, Java, Groovy, Ruby, Python, Turbogears, operating systems (especially OSX and Linux), relational databases, The Semantic Web, Web2.0 and enterprise architecture.
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- I run Cambridge Web Design, a Florida corporation that provides software development and professional services. Cambridge - working software developers.
The Bike Preserve, www.tinyurl.com/okpeoro the most fun in a long time. I founded www.codetown.com, www.zoobird.com & www.swampcast.com - l <3 JUGs: OrlandoJUG, GatorJUG & SeneJUG...super fond of CongoJUG & JCertif
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New Java features
Posted on August 29, 2025 at 5:32pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
August 28 2025, Newsletter no. 297 (this newsletter is available in html format at http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/news/news297.shtml )
As usual before a Java release, I'm listing all the new…
Free Eclipse book, recently published
Posted on August 24, 2025 at 11:59am 0 Comments 0 Likes
ContinueHi Everyone,My publisher is running a free Amazon Kindle book promotion through Monday, August 25th, 2025. The book, “Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game” can be obtained for $0 on Kindle on Amazon through the August 25th.…
What is vibe coding?
Posted on June 9, 2025 at 9:37am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Vibe coding isn’t a formal technical term, but it’s become a slang or colloquial expression among programmers and tech communities—especially on social media and in creative coding circles.
What “vibe coding” usually means:
- Coding based on intuition or feel
Instead of rigidly planning everything out, you’re:- Freestyling as you…
You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom
Posted on March 25, 2025 at 4:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Learning about artificial intelligence? You may find this interesting.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom/
Software language criteria
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Comment Wall (144 comments)
- At 9:00pm on September 9, 2025,
Jim White said…
Thanks Mike! What a blast from the past! That Red Hat swag! ;-). Jim
- At 1:54pm on September 5, 2019,
Ian Darwin said…
Thanks for the invite!
- At 9:50am on July 27, 2019,
Zeeshan Murad said…
- Thanks
- At 7:20pm on January 17, 2019,
Bradlee Sargent said…
I didn't mean to make you feel bad, I know how busy you must be. It's just we could do more to promote this site. Does the twitter thingie work for you?
- At 3:30pm on December 28, 2018,
Thanks so much for the birthday wishes. I know it's so late getting back to you but I don't check this website very often.
- At 12:11pm on November 1, 2018,
Michael Redlich said…
Thanks for the invitation and the birthday wishes, Mike!
- At 8:44am on October 23, 2018,
Joe McCall said…
- Hi Michael. I hope CodeOne is going well. Any idea when the next JUG event will be?
- At 7:50pm on October 9, 2018,
Thanks. I'm interested either way (either 10/25 or the rescheduled day).
- At 1:38pm on October 4, 2018,
Ramya Beesam said…
Sure Mike. I can do that
- At 9:46am on October 4, 2018,
Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez said…
- Hey Mike! Conference is awesome. Hoping to post talks as soon as they're up. My talk os tomorrow! Also that's great I would love to hear his talk!!! We're doing a lot with AOP and metaprogramming
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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Welcome to Codetown!
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.
When you create a profile for yourself you get a personal page automatically. That's where you can be creative and do your own thing. People who want to get to know you will click on your name or picture and…
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Anthropic has expanded its Claude Managed Agents platform with two enterprise-focused capabilities: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. The release aims to address a recurring challenge in enterprise AI deployments, where organizations want to use autonomous agents but cannot allow execution environments or internal systems to leave their security perimeter.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiAgoda Builds Multimodal Content System to Bridge Images and Reviews in Travel Discovery
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By Merrin KurianTanStack Details Sophisticated npm Supply Chain Attack That Compromised 42 Packages
TanStack has released a detailed postmortem describing a sophisticated supply-chain attack that compromised 42 npm packages and published 84 malicious package versions in just six minutes, exposing developers and CI/CD systems to credential theft and malware propagation.
By Craig RisiArticle: Kernel-Level Ground Truth: Why eBPF is Replacing User-Space Agents for Security Observability
eBPF is emerging as a preferred method for security observability over traditional user-space agents. By attaching probes directly to the Linux kernel's syscall interface, it provides consistent visibility even during container-level compromises. eBPF reduces security-related CPU consumption and limits data volume by performing filtering at the kernel level, enhancing operational efficiency.
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