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Nikos Vaggalis @nikosvg.bsky.social · Jul 9
#Perl 5.42 Released - Still Going Strong-"Just hot out of the oven, there's a new minor version release of the venerable programming language that is Perl".
An IProgrammer look ➡️https://i-programmer.info/news/222-perl/18163-perl-542-released-still-going-strong.html
nikosvg.bsky.social
The #PostgreSQL Extension for #Vscode -"Connect to PostgreSQL database instances, run queries, create and manage connections and more, all from inside VSCode"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/yti7i18Z
PostgreSQL Extension for Visual Studio Code
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December 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Hour Of AI 2025 About To Start-"Rebranding to Hour of AI supports the idea of problem solving without explicitly having to code using a programming language, but by learning to do so using AI and Machine Learning activities" cutt.ly/btuYchM6

#HourOfAI @csforall.bsky.social @khanacademy.org
Hour Of AI 2025 About To Start
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December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Advent Of Code 2025 Commences-"It's Advent, the time of year when we countdown the days to Christmas having fun doing daily coding challenges. @jetbrains.com have also a special treat!"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/Xty5q258

#adventofcode #jetbrains #kotlin #rust
Advent Of Code 2025 Commences
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December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Vaadin Now Does MCP-"The official release of #Vaadin #MCP server is a reality.What does it make different?"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/NttladnX

#Java @vaadin.com @martinelli.ch
Vaadin Now Does MCP
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November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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JetBrain's Developer Productivity #AI Arena Is A Game Changer-" #DPAI is an open platform for benchmarking AI coding Agents. Haven't we got enough benchmarks and evaluations already?"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/Wtrv5MIi

@jetbrains.com #LLM #codingagents
JetBrain's Developer Productivity AI Arena Is A Game Changer
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November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial-"The more elaborate the prompt the better the outcome. But how do I construct a really great prompt?"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/WtroorQs

#anthropic #claude #llm
Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial
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November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#InfluxDB 3.6 Released With #AI Capabilities
-"InfluxData has released @influxdb.com 3.6 for both Core and Enterprise,a new version which incorporates AI and performance improvements"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/WteVCnXR
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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#EuroLLM / Europe Gets Its Own #LLM -"While several European states have separately produced their own LLMs, there was no solution that catered for the languages of all 24 states belonging to the #EU block"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/BtwtkWl5
Europe Gets Its Own LLM
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Apache #Grails 7.0 Released-"Despite its already long life,the venerable #JVM project just graduated to a Top-Level Project at the #ApacheSoftwareFoundation. What is the importance of that?"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/atqpKbdz

@apache.org
@micronautfw.bsky.social
Apache Grails 7.0 Released
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Chrome DevTools To Benefit From MCP-"Google brings the power of Chrome DevTools to AI coding assistants"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/0r7mJMF8

#gpt #mcp #chrome #llm #google
Chrome DevTools To Benefit From MCP
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October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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#GoogleAIStudio Does #Angular-"AI Studio can now generate Angular applications. Add the Web Codegen Scorer tool on top and you get a pretty solid Angular development platform".

On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/Ir7pznzI

@angular.dev
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
thatjeffsmith.com
Previously on @thatjeffsmith... Definitive guide to moving from SQL Developer to VS Code
Definitive guide to moving from SQL Developer to VS Code
Previously on @thatjeffsmith... Definitive guide to moving from SQL Developer to VS Code
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October 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
nikosvg.bsky.social
#IBM has launched #Granite 4.0, the next generation of open-source, small but efficient, IBM language models, together with Granite-#Docling, the next gen document format converter.

On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/xr4u6ZQs

#llm #gpt #chatgpt
IBM Launches Granite Version 4.0 and Granite-Docling
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Qodana Revisited-"It's been some years since we first looked at #Qodana, the solid #SAST tool from @jetbrains.com
Let's find out what's new since then"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/Tr8gKvW3
October 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Visualize The Inner Workings Of An LLM-"this web site
with interactive and intuitable graphics explains how an LLM actually works"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/Pr3AJ7Kh

#llm #chatgpt #gpt #ai
Visualize The Inner Workings Of An LLM
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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#ChartDB strikes back with a database agent that auto-magically draws database schemas for you using natural language just by describing what you need

On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/hr3kX9Gk

#postgres #oracle #database #erd #diagram
ChartDB - The ERD Agent
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October 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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There Are No Programmers In Star Trek-
"The future of programming is in doubt, but this fact has never been in doubt. The future has always been very clear - programming is a transitory phenomenon."

On IProgrammer: www.i-programmer.info/news/99-prof...
There Are No Programmers In Star Trek
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October 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
nikosvg.bsky.social
@connormcd.bsky.social Hi Connor. I have a question about the underlying table structure Oracle uses. When I create a table without a PK, is the table heap? Then, when I add a PK is there a btree index created and the table structure reshuffled as btree? I assume that Oracle uses btree indexes?
October 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Switzerland Releases Its Own Large Language Model-"While other corporate models like OpenAI's are baptized open-source, that term refers only to their weights being released to public"
On IProgrammer: cutt.ly/gr1q7VGX

@ethz.ch #LLM #GPT #Swiss #GPT
Switzerland Releases Its Own Large Language Model
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September 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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LocalCode - A Perl-Based AI Coding Agent
Who said that #Perl can't do #AI?
And to prove it here's #LocalCode, a Perl AI #codingagent for local #Ollama models.
On IProgrammer cutt.ly/NrNBDsqW

#llm #chatgpt #gpt #mcp #aiagents
LocalCode - A Perl-Based AI Coding Agent
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September 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
bellsoft.bsky.social
Cold starts and slow startup still hurt #Java in the cloud. #GraalVM Native Image can fix that. In this new tutorial, @cat-edelveis.bsky.social shows how to build #SpringBoot apps as native executables, compare distributions, and deal with common pitfalls. Watch here: youtu.be/ruFTMi-SPHY
September 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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@eclipse.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Open Source Is Not Just About Software
It's about infrastructure as well - An Open Letter from the Stewards of Public Open Source Infrastructure
On IProgrammer➡️ cutt.ly/8rNkGbDu

#opensource #oss #OSSsecurity
@openssf.org @linuxfoundation.org
Open Source Is Not Just About Software
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September 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Nikos Vaggalis
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Previously on @thatjeffsmith... Oracle SQL Developer & VS Code Primer plus some Tips/Tricks
Oracle SQL Developer & VS Code Primer plus some Tips/Tricks
Previously on @thatjeffsmith... Oracle SQL Developer & VS Code Primer plus some Tips/Tricks
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September 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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@thatjeffsmith.com 2/2 is Docker, and if yes should I use docker desktop or podman? Or, can I get a free instance online on Oracle cloud? But that would probably require transferring ddl scripts and sample data server side. What do you think?
September 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM