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Michael Levin

Crowdsourcing, Threadless and Web2.0


Threadless on WGN - Around Town from Threadless.com on Vimeo.



You've no doubt heard the term crowdsourcing. Jeff Howe popularized the word in this Wired article and with his book,… Continue

Posted by Michael Levin on July 3, 2009 at 10:30am

Michael Levin

How to enable internet tethering on iPhone 3.0

just chatted with the Byrne-meister, Alan, my former colleague I met while working in Dublin, Ireland. He's sitting in a cow pasture in somewhere in Belgium using his Mac tethered to his iPhone for internet access. I asked him how and he pointed me to this link. Said it took him no time at all to configur… Continue

Posted by Michael Levin on July 1, 2009 at 4:00pm

Michael Levin

How to enable internet tethering on iPhone 3.0

I just chatted with the Byrne-meister, Alan, my former colleague I met while working in Dublin, Ireland. He's sitting in a cow pasture in somewhere in Belgium using his Mac tethered to his iPhone for internet access. I asked him how and he pointed me to this link. Said it took him no time at all to config… Continue

Posted by Michael Levin on July 1, 2009 at 4:00pm

Tim Stevesi

New Computer Guide

What to look for when buying a new computer
The following guide will help you to answer the questions of what you need, what do I upgrade, and more.

The first thing you need to consider is what you will be doing with the computer. Will you need to store a lot of video, pictures, and music? Will this be a media center PC? Or will this computer just be a basic email, websurfing, and word processing machine? Answer… Continue

Posted by Tim Stevesi on June 18, 2009 at 1:00pm

Michael Levin

Getting Started with Arduino




I just went to the Maker Faire in the Bay Area with my friend Michael Hauser. The expo was filled with Arduino products!… Continue

Posted by Michael Levin on June 14, 2009 at 5:03pm — 1 Comment



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August 9

Sunday

  • iPhone Dev Camp

    August 9, 2009 all day – TBA - and date is TBA!

    We are pleased to announce iPhoneDevCamp 3, coming August 2009 and broadcasting from the San Francisco Bay Area. The event is inspired by BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, and MacHack, to develop Cocoa...

    Organized by Raven and Dom | Type: devcamp

August 25

Tuesday

  • Flex Jam

    August 25, 2009 all day – Swampcast HQ

    Remember last year's Flex Hackfest at Swampcast HQ in beautiful Winter Park? This year, you can bring your own project! Get help from the expert, Adobe Evangelist James Ward. Mike Levin and James w...

    Organized by Michael Levin | Type: jam

August 26

Wednesday

August 27

Thursday

October 24

Saturday

Notes

Welcome to Codetown!

Codetown is a social network. Its 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.


When you create a profile for yourself you get a personal page automatically. That's where you can be creative and do yo
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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin Dec. 19, 2008.

Notes Home

Welcome to Notes. Continue

Created by Michael Levin Jul 15, 2008 at 11:36am. Last updated by Michael Levin Jul. 15, 2008.

Forum

Sadien Intellectual Property

The RIAA literally owns Jammie Thomas-Rasset (a copyright discussion for tech pros)

A jury of Jammie Thomas-Rasset's peers just levied a $1,920,000 fine against the young mother of 4 for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa. The defendant, and others, are basically saying... "Good luck coll...

Tagged: Kazaa, downloading, music, lawsuit, piracy

Started by Sadien Intellectual Property in Testing Jun 19.

Tim Stevesi

Facebook connect JS 2 Replies

This is more javascript. However, I have been playing around with facebook connect on a website I am coding for and it is kind of a cool feature. The documentation is tough to read, but the functio...

Tagged: connect, facebook

Started by Tim Stevesi in Java. Last reply by Tim Stevesi Jun 18.

Sadien Intellectual Property

New Opera Unite: Are they kidding?

I'm glad to see Opera working to grow, and try new things... However, from what I am reading about this new product... nothing about what they're doing sounds good. As I understand it, Opera Unit...

Tagged: server, proxy, network, data, web

Started by Sadien Intellectual Property in Testing Jun 17.

Sadien Intellectual Property

Pirate Party: Are Americans losing something in translation here?

A Sadien.com Editorial I've seen this story about the "EU Pirate Party" floating around for several days now. Piracy is bad. No question about it. (And before all of the Pro-Pirate-Bay-Copyright-...

Tagged: Piracy, Party, election, EU, software

Started by Sadien Intellectual Property in Testing Jun 12.

Mara

Courses translated to french 2 Replies

I want courses of iphone's development in french.

Started by Mara in Java. Last reply by Michael Levin May 28.

Carol McDonald

Comparing Tomcat and Glassfish

There is a direct connection between the Web container technology used by developers and the performance and agility of applications. This paper demonstrates that the Web container capabilities pro...

Tagged: tomcat, web, java

Started by Carol McDonald in Java Mar 6.

Carol McDonald

JavaFX 1 Reply

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archiv RESTful Pet Catalog Client: a JavaFX application that displays pet photos retrieved from a RESTful Pet Catalog app Posted by caroljmcdonald

Started by Carol McDonald in Java. Last reply by Michael Levin Dec. 7, 2008.

Zemian Deng

OJUG Mule Demo Source Code

Hi All, What a great night! To those who are interested for the presentation slides and source code of my demo, you may download it here: http://groups.google.com/group/sweetscala/web/mule README....

Started by Zemian Deng in Java Nov. 21, 2008.

Zemian Deng

How important is the "Feedback" feature of your public site?

I found something that's not right about formatting when trying to compose a gmail today. Been the constructive person I am, I want to report to google team of the problem, but to my surprise I can...

Started by Zemian Deng in Testing Jul. 21, 2008.

Zemian Deng

Can we have a "Other Languages On JVM" Group? 3 Replies

I like to see a Scala Programming Group. Anyone interested in?

Started by Zemian Deng in Dynamic Languages. Last reply by Michael Levin Jul. 15, 2008.

Next OrlandoJUG Meeting Aug 27


James Ward will show us the latest ways to make sexy apps using Flex at GatorJUG on Aug 26 and OrlandoJUG on Aug 27! We'll have a Flex Jam that week, as well. See details in the CodeTown Events section. Stay tuned!

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Michael Levin added 3 blog postson Friday
David T. Harris joined Michael Levin's groupon Thursday
Object relational mapping, Hibernate, container managed persistence. Do you eat, breath and sleep databases? We do! This is the place to share what you know and what you dream of - what you really want to know. The Database SIG!
David T. Harris is attending Michael Levin's eventon Thursday
Florida Linux Show - Orlando at Radssion Resort Orlando-Celebration
October 24, 2009 all day
This year (2009) the Florida Linux Show Orlando is an event where you can bring your family and enjoy a first or second vacation at the resort park of your choice. Visit warm, sunny Orlando, Florida for the Linux Show with the best weather and gre...
David T. Harris and Edgar A. are now friendson Thursday
Jack E. Korner might attend Michael Levin's eventon Thursday
July 2, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
25 percent of developers say that their JEE projects take over two minutes to deploy, every time they want to see their changes. Since on average we deploy five times an hour, we are watching the logs roll by, or switching to email and losing focu...
Michael Levin left a comment for Kait O'Nealon Wednesday
Kait O'Neal added an eventon Wednesday
The Ajax Experience at Hilton Boston Logan Airport
September 14, 2009 to September 16, 2009
Ajaxian.com's The Ajax Experience comes to Boston, September 14 - 16, 2009. Whether you're an Ajax newbie or expert, you will benefit from over 50 essential sessions and tutorials from Ajax framework founders, contributors, project leads and entre...
Kait O'Neal updated their profileon Wednesday
Kait O'Neal and Michael Levin are now friendson Wednesday
2 members updated their profile photoson Wednesday
Kait O'Neal and Federico Nicolàs Casabianca joined CodeTownon Wednesday
An event by Michael Levin was featuredon Wednesday
GatorJUG - Watching the logs roll by at Santa Fe College Room S 326/327
July 1, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
25 percent of developers say that their JEE projects take over two minutes to deploy, every time they want to see their changes. Since on average we deploy five times an hour, we are watching the logs roll by, or switching to email and losing focu...
Michael Levin added an eventon Tuesday
Florida Linux Show - Orlando at Radssion Resort Orlando-Celebration
October 24, 2009 all day
This year (2009) the Florida Linux Show Orlando is an event where you can bring your family and enjoy a first or second vacation at the resort park of your choice. Visit warm, sunny Orlando, Florida for the Linux Show with the best weather and gre...
Michael Levin updated an eventon Tuesday
GatorJUG - Watching the logs roll by at Santa Fe College Room S 326/327
July 1, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
25 percent of developers say that their JEE projects take over two minutes to deploy, every time they want to see their changes. Since on average we deploy five times an hour, we are watching the logs roll by, or switching to email and losing focu...
Francesco Raccuglia updated their profileon Tuesday
Bulama Yusuf joined Michael Levin's groupJune 29
Here's your Java Enterprise Edition group. JEE powers distributed software.
Christan Grant might attend Michael Levin's eventJune 26
July 1, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
25 percent of developers say that their JEE projects take over two minutes to deploy, every time they want to see their changes. Since on average we deploy five times an hour, we are watching the logs roll by, or switching to email and losing focu...
Dependency injection. It's a smart approach. Believe that? We do! Come on in and share what you know. Ask all your Spring questions here, too!
 
 

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Welcome to Project Kenai, Sun Microsystem's onramp for the developer cloud experience of tomorrow, where you can host your open source projects and code, as well as find and collaborate with developers of like mind.

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Want to Open-ID enable your site? Here's one way to do it!

Linux Events in 2009

Check out these excellent Linux related events occurring this year around the country and the world!

Java Jobs Mailing List

The unique feature about this mailing list is that every job posted must state a rate, salary or range. You can look back over the years and see how the rates have changed...enjoy! Moderated by Mike Levin.

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