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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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Morgan Stanley engineers Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea showed how they're retooling the bank's API program for AI agents using MCP and FINOS CALM. Live demos covered compliance guardrails, deployment gates, and zero-downtime rollouts across 100+ APIs. First API deployment shrank from two years to two weeks. They also demoed Google's A2A protocol running alongside MCP.
By Steef-Jan WiggersChristine Lemmer-Webber, Executive Director at the Spritely Institute, and David Thompson, CTO at the Spritely Institute, presented “Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet” at QCon London 2026, where they discussed how Spritely works to decentralize the Internet with new foundational technologies that put users in control.
By Michael Redlich
You can find your way through an organization by figuring out what artifacts people leave behind, David Grizzanti mentioned at InfoQ Dev Summit Boston. He compared culture to anthropology, suggested studying behaviors, power dynamics, and decisions first, and then patiently model and reward new norms, build allies, and use influence and leading by example, to shift engineering culture over time.
By Ben Linders
At QCon London 2026, Jeff Smith discussed the growing mismatch between AI coding models and real-world software development. While AI tools are enabling developers to generate code faster than ever, Smith argued that the models themselves are increasingly “stale” because they lack the repository-specific knowledge required to produce production-ready contributions.
By Daniel Dominguez
Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks, including 14 high-severity bugs, as nearly 20% of all critical Firefox vulnerabilities were fixed in 2025. The AI also wrote working exploits for two bugs, demonstrating emerging capabilities that give defenders a temporary advantage but signal an accelerating arms race in cybersecurity.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
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