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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 82 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 104 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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Cloudflare has launched a Security Overview dashboard that consolidates security signals into prioritized action items. It surfaces millions of daily insights, helping teams identify and remediate critical risks faster. Built on distributed checkers and real-time event processing, it integrates analytics workflows to reduce investigation overhead and improve response efficiency.
By Leela Kumili
Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg discusses the "human bottlenecks" of hyper-growth. While systems scale, human cooperation often breaks down due to communication overload and lost context. She shares proven tools for behavioral scalability - including communication architecture and "engineering trust" - to help leaders maintain high-performing, autonomous teams without sacrificing speed or culture.
By Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
This article describes how a production delta-index pipeline migrated from scheduled batch to micro-batch Spark Structured Streaming. It covers why record-level streaming was rejected, how partition-based watermarks replaced fragile S3 completion markers, overlap-window correctness, and restart-as-design strategies for better predictability in object-store–based ingestion systems.
By Parveen SainiAndy Damevin, a developer who worked on Quarkus for almost a decade, talks about Roq. A project that started as an experiment to try to see if it’s possible to build a static web site generator on top of quarkus. He touches on the rationale for choosing Java and Quarkus, how to migrate to Roq, and the platform's future.
By Andy Damevin
Using Copilot along with strong reliability safeguards, DoorDash migrated their iOS XCTest-based test suite to Swift Testing, thus modernizing a large test suite quickly, safely, and with measurable performance gains, says DoorDash engineer Matheus Gois.
By Sergio De Simone
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