Michael Levin

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Mike is a small business owner and software developer involved with the community. He helps organize OrlandoJUG and GatorJUG in Florida, and is involved with the CajunJUG in NOLA and the SeneJUG in West Africa, Senegal to be exact! 

He enjoys social networks and founded www.codetown.us. It's a community geared toward software developers all over the world.

Mike's business, Cambridge Web Design, is mainly a business to business firm, specializing in custom software development and work involving the web, of course!

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  • EasyB

    This just in from Luis Espinal of MJUG:





    http://www.easyb.org/



    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)




    It also got me to think why TDD and BDD is not so common with plain Java. Java's atrocious verbosity makes it very hard to write tests and specs. At least superficially, it looks like a pleasure to use EasyB to write specs for Java and Scala programs.


    Regards,



    Luis Espinal



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    Scala appeals to developers because it‘s a functional language and not as verbose as most languages. You can see examples of another functional language, Clojure, in Contest Town. Eric Lavigne wrote an instant runoff election and a Wari program using Clojure.



    An interesting discussion is going on in the MJUG mailing list. Thoughts?

  • JCertif 2011 : Java is on! Rockin' in the Congo-Brazzaville

    JCertif ::: in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo


    Hi All,

    As some of you already know. The next edition of JCertif is coming.
    This year again the JCertif Conference will bring together developers from across Africa to learn, collaborate, and inspire each other.
    This year, we're happy to announce 3 days of Java and Android training and 2 days of great talk, focusing on key areas where Java and open source are driving innovation: Java, Android, HTML5, JavaFX and JavaME.

    If you feel like living a bit of an adventure, get acquainted with a different culture and meet great people, during an event other than the “classic” ones, then this is for you!
    JCertif 2011 will take place in Brazzaville, Congo :
    JCertif Conference (2 days) : September 34, 2011
    JCertif University (3 days) : August 31 to September 2, 2011

    We’re expecting 800+ attendees, based upon our previous events and several hundred people who are already registered.
    Many of the African groups are represented on Codetown www.codetown.us Still hesitating to join JCertif 2011 ? There are a few names of great confirmed and to be confirmed speakers :

    Arun Gupta (Oracle). Yes! Arun will be the keynote speaker !
     Bruno Kinoshita (SysMap Brazil)
     Douglas Mbiandou (Objis France)
    Horacio LasseyAssiakoley (Atlantique Telecom TogoJUG)
    Michael Heinrichs (Oracle, Prague)
     Mike Levin (Cambridgeweb, OrlandoJUG)
    Roger Brinkley (Oracle)
     Van Reper (Google)
    ...
     ...
    And more....http://www.jcertif.com !!

    The final list of speakers will be published in few weeks !!

    BTW : The Congolese beer is KITOKO ! Mike Levin and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine should agree with me alt=title=":)" />
    http://blogs.oracle.com/alexismp/entry/back_from_brazza or http://www.jroller.com/Sandymountster/entry/notes_from_jcertif_in_brazzaville

    Want to learn a few phrases in Lingala, the Congolese language? Click here: http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/language/about/lingala.html


    There are links that can help you to know more :

    Photos from JCertif 2010:
    JCertif 2010 University : https://picasaweb.google.com/bonbhel/JCertifUniversity2010
    JCertif 2010 Conference : https://picasaweb.google.com/bonbhel/JCertif2010

    Here is the website where you can get more info about call for papers:
    PS : We're still looking for one more speaker for HTML5 (contact us : info-AT-jcertif.com).

    ==============>http://www.jcertif.com

    Hope to see you in Brazzaville !


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  • Cornbread and Contracting

    Cornbread and Contracting








    Cornbread and contracting. They have a lot in common. What do I mean?





    Well, you never go in empty handed. That's for starters. How did this come up? I'm headed to my favorite bike and coffee shop this morning to do some fancy computin'. I'll be sure to bring something with me to the show. Whats my fav? Cornbread!





    I looked in my cupboard to see what I got. I got some cornmeal. Yeah! I got some baking power. Bingo. Salt. Check. Eggs? Yup. Milk/Soy milk? Uh huh. What else? Well, I got some notes. Lessee.



    Cornbread and Contracting



    My trusty cornbread box has a faithful recipe. I don't commit it to memory because I forget a lot. But, I try. So, that was it. What did I forget. Flour. Uh oh....





    What am I gonna do?





    Like what you've read so far? Read the rest here in Codetown. Keep checking back too, because the story's not over...yet!

  • The Making of Swampcast





    The Making of Swampcast ::: A video documenting the history and production of Swampcast, a podcast about “Software development, emerging technology and everything else!”



    Contact Mike at http://www.codetown.us/profile/MichaelLevin

    Subscribe to Swampcast at www.swampcast.com and on iTunes at at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swampcast/id283428946

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