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"Speaker: Jim Baker So how did we get to Jython 2.7 anyway? And what are our future plans? In this… Tags: codetown, Jim Michael Levin Apr 25, 2015 108 views
A step-by-step demonstration of a smartphone dongle to diagnose sexually transmitted infections thr… Tags: dongles, smartphones Michael Levin Feb 17, 2015 81 views
JCertif International project KITA-MATA : Pilote #Drone using #African language Tags: Africa, bonbhel Michael Levin Oct 17, 2014 82 views
Tori Wieldt interviews Max Bonbhel on their IoT project and the African developer communities. Tags: Congo, jug Michael Levin Oct 17, 2014 104 views
You'll see some familiar faces in this video. Java One 2014 begins soon... Tags: codetown, java Michael Levin Sep 29, 2014 81 views
The Original 1984 Macintosh Introduction: the magic moment, when Steve Jobs unveils the Macintosh a… Tags: Codetown, marketing Michael Levin Jun 11, 2014 100 views
Lyndsey Scott is a model for Victoria's Secret and Prada who develops iOS apps in her spare time. S… Tags: matchmaker, ios7 Michael Levin Jun 11, 2014 100 views
"we are organized like a startups" Tags: startups, management Michael Levin Mar 13, 2014 96 views
DOWNLOAD this song: http://jonathanmann.bandcamp.com/track/thats-just-the-woz For the Woz! Tags: codetown, music Michael Levin Mar 7, 2014 95 views
Can design be so amazing that it makes us feel superheroic? Can it be so poor that it angers and fr… Tags: Superheroes & Villains in Design, design Michael Levin Mar 6, 2014 146 views
President Barack Obama asks every American to give it a shot to learn to code, kicking off the Hour… Tags: Code, of Michael Levin Dec 10, 2013 100 views
Roy Singham @ ThoughtWorks and Herman @ Softdrive talk with BBC about incubating the software devel… Tags: africa Michael Levin Jul 24, 2012 76 views
This original rap music video made for JavaOne 2011 celebrates the "Java Life". Dedicated to the de… Tags: video, rap Michael Levin Jan 12, 2012 100 views
Steve Jobs's speech at Standford 2005 - Thai sub Tags: innovation, freelance Michael Levin Oct 6, 2011 114 views
Murray's concern with the problems presented by unwanted but usable old computers being discarded i… Tags: eWaste Michael Levin Aug 15, 2010 91 views
Including a performance by Isaac "Shovelman" Frankle at Maker Faire. It's amazing what you can do w… Tags: faire, maker Michael Levin Jun 7, 2009 158 views
Internal auditing massively reduces technology overhead and costs on several different levels, incl… Tags: overhead, license Sadien Intellectual Property May 30, 2009 168 views
Big-Software companies have the power and legal backing to use federal copyright law to destroy oth… Tags: license, program Sadien Intellectual Property May 22, 2009 172 views
We are talking at the JavaOne event about my project to start a Java User Group in Congo (Africa).… Tags: james, gosling Max Bonbhel Apr 23, 2009 152 views
Conversation with James Gosling about CongoJUG Tags: Bonbhel, CongoJUG Max Bonbhel Apr 23, 2009 126 views
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Recently launched in technical preview, GitHub Agentic Workflows introduce a way to automate complex, repetitive repository tasks using coding agents that understand context and intent, GitHub says. This enables workflows such as automatic issue triage and labeling, documentation updates, CI troubleshooting, test improvements, and reporting.
By Sergio De Simone
The panelists emphasize that data engineering is no longer just about "click-and-drag" UI tools; it is software engineering applied to data.
By Fabiane Nardon, Matthias Niehoff, Adi Polak, Sarah Usher
Dropbox engineers have detailed how the company built the context engine behind Dropbox Dash, revealing a shift toward index-based retrieval, knowledge graph-derived context, and continuous evaluation to support enterprise AI at scale
By Matt Foster
Uber and OpenAI are replacing static rate limits with adaptive, infrastructure-level platforms. Uber’s Global Rate Limiter utilizes probabilistic shedding to manage 80M RPS, while OpenAI’s Access Engine implements a credit waterfall to prevent user interruptions. Both architectures utilize distributed enforcement and soft controls to maintain system stability and service continuity at scale.
By Patrick Farry
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, their latest open-weight multimodal LLM. K2.5 excels at coding tasks, with benchmark scores comparable to frontier models such as GPT-5 and Gemini. It also features an agent swarm mode, which can direct up to 100 sub-agents for attacking problems with parallel workflow.
By Anthony Alford
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