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This just in from Luis Espinal of MJUG:
The EasyB syntax for writing stories and specifications is a lot more succinct than the one provided by Specs, the Scala BDD framework (at least when looked upon from a 10K foot view)
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Oscon 2011 is just days away from happening. For some of you, attending Oscon may not be an option. It's possible that you have other obligations, don't have a budget for it, or even don't know much about it. Well have no fear, this year Oscon 2011 will be streaming live on Codetown via the group Oscon 2011. For those of you who are curious about it, take some time to watch an hour or so. Anyone who really wanted to attend…
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The annual open source convention, simply known as Oscon, has come around for its 13th year and this year it features Oscon Java. Oscon is where developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors come together to change everyday business practices and thinking. It's a technical conference that covers a range of open source, from Linux and MySQL to middleware and cloud computing as well as anything in between.
Oscon is designed to provide informative tutorials, activities,…
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Class Family Accord - Abstract
An Accord class family is a hierarchy of classes for which another class hierarchy has been designated as corresponding. Class A0 is the top of the class family, class A1 extends A0, class A…
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Hello Codetown!
I just got this from Oracle:
We’re Moving Java Forward. Watch the Webcast Replay of the Java 7 Launch Today.
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Is Objective-C a step backwards in terms of memory management? Why does Apple use it despite advances in the language realm? I heard the other day that Java would give people some sort of unfair abilities in the App store. Not sure. But, people I know (Kevin Neelands, for one - check out his best selling Periodic Table of the Elements - free!)…
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GitHub has released two features to improve the security and resilience of repositories. The first feature allows Dependabot to run as a GitHub Actions workflow using hosted and self-hosted runners. The second release introduces the public beta of Artifact Attestations, simplifying how repository maintainers can generate provenance for their build artifacts.
By Matt CampbellMeta AI released Llama 3, the latest generation of their open-source large language model (LLM) family. The model is available in 8B and 70B parameter sizes, each with a base and instruction-tuned variant. Llama3 outperforms other LLMs of the same parameter size on standard LLM benchmarks.
By Anthony AlfordAzure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud monitoring service for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and networks. The company recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline, which enables the collection and routing of telemetry data before it's sent to the cloud.
By Steef-Jan WiggersWebAssembly has expanded its scope from browsers to other domains like cloud and edge computing. It uses the WebAssembly Component Model (WCM) to enable seamless interaction between libraries from different programming languages, such as Rust, Python, and JavaScript, promoting a true polyglot programming environment.
By Matt ButcherJobRunr v7 now defaults to virtual threads for applications using JDK 21, optimizing concurrency for I/O-bound tasks and allowing more jobs to run simultaneously. This update maintains compatibility with Java 8 and supports GraalVM native mode. RedisStorageProvider and ElasticSearchStorageProvider are planned to be dropped in future releases. MongoDB driver is also upgraded.
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