Codetown ::: a software developer's community
On President Obama’s first full day in office, he called for recommendations to make the Federal Government more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. Through the Open Government Initiative, the U.S. Government recently made available a rich variety of Federal datasets via Data.gov with the specified purpose of increasing public access to high value, machine readable datasets
generated by the Federal Government.
As part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative, the USDA's Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services recently launched a
multi-phased challenge called the Innovations for Health. The first part of this, the Apps for Healthy Kids competition, is a call to American entrepreneurs, software developers, and students to use the recently released USDA Nutrition Dataset
to create innovative, fun, and engaging applications and games that
encourage children directly or through their parents to make more
nutritious food choices and to be more physically active.
Subsequent parts of Innovations for Health will include producing motivating public service announcements (PSAs) (Video Challenge) and creating healthful recipes to be used in schools (Recipe Challenge). Details of these will be announced at a later date.
For more on the Apps for Healthy Kids challenge, click here.
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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.
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According to Marijn Huizenveld, discipline is key to preventing accumulating technical debt. In order to be disciplined you should make it difficult to ignore the debt. Heuristics like fixing small issues immediately, agreeing on a timebox for improvement, and making messy things look messy, can help tame technical debt.
By Ben LindersElon Musk announced that xAI would make its AI chatbot Grok open source, and now the release is accessible on GitHub and Hugging Face. This move enables researchers and developers to expand upon the model, influencing how xAI evolves Grok in the face of competition from tech giants like OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others.
By Daniel DominguezWilliam Chen discusses the importance of trimming your computational graph, storing data in multiple formats, leveraging open source, and considering multiple dimensions of modularization.
By William ChenRedis has recently announced a change in their license by transitioning from the open-source BSD to the more restrictive Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). The move has promptly led to a fork initiated by former maintainers and reignited discussions surrounding the sustainability of open-source initiatives.
By Renato LosioDigitalOcean has launched automatic horizontal scaling for its App Platform PaaS, aiming to free developers from the burden of scaling services up or down based on CPU load all by themselves.
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