We take a look at a series of interviews in which Java Champions share their expert advice on career growth, technical mastery and the future of software engineering.
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM
We take a look at a series of interviews in which Java Champions share their expert advice on career growth, technical mastery and the future of software engineering.
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at July 22, 2026 06:44 PM
DeepSWE is a high-fidelity benchmarking platform designed to evaluate the performance of frontier AI coding agents on complex long-horizon software engineering tasks.
Unlike traditional benchmarks that reuse existing GitHub data, this system utilizes original, contamination-free tasks across five major programming languages to prevent models from relying on memorized solutions, creating a much clearer separation between frontier coding models than older public benchmarks like SWE-bench.
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at July 20, 2026 04:41 PM
Fyrox, the game engine written in Rust, reaches its first stable version,1.0.0, after 7 years in the making and numerous development releases.
Fyrox is a feature-rich, general-purpose 2D and 3D game engine written entirely in Rust. Formerly known as rg3d, the engine represents a long-term development effort that culminated in its stable 1.0.0 release in March 2026.
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at July 17, 2026 07:38 PM
Mozilla.ai has introduced cq, an open-source standard and platform designed to facilitate shared learning among AI agents. This promises to eliminate a lot of duplicated effort on the part of AI agents, thereby making savings in terms of cost and resources
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at July 16, 2026 05:19 PM
RAMPART and Clarity are frameworks designed by Microsoft to evaluate the safety and security of agentic AI applications.
RAMPART (Risk Assessment & Measurement Platform for Agentic Red Teaming), is built on top of Microsoft's PyRIT (Python Risk Identification Tool) primitives. Rather than treating AI safety as a one-time post-build review, it allows developers to write safety and security tests as repeatable code th
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at July 13, 2026 03:09 PM
pg_durable is a Microsoft developed PostgreSQL extension that integrates fault-tolerant, long-running execution directly into the database.
To understand why this is useful, think about what normally happens if you run a long, complex database job and the server crashes or your connection drops; you lose your progress, and you have to start all over again.
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 30, 2026 03:23 PM
AI-fokus, a spin off of Jfokus, is a conference focusing on the evolution of agentic AI and its practical implementation in software development.
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 30, 2026 12:08 PM
We look at a Github repository that provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for constructing a modern Large Language Model from the ground by up using Python and PyTorch.
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM
JNation Conference is a software development event held annually in Coimbra, Portugal, that covers various topics relevant to the software development industry.
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18966-what-happened-at-jnation-2026-.html
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 26, 2026 04:31 PM
Redis has released Iris, a specialized real-time context engine designed to optimize the performance and reliability of AI agents.
by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 23, 2026 06:21 PM