Introducing Gemma 3: The Developer Guide
Gemma 3 is a new, advanced version of the Gemma open-model family featuring multimodality, longer context windows, and improved language capabilities, with various sizes and deployment options for developers to experiment.
Gemma 3 on mobile and web with Google AI Edge
Gemma 3 1B, a new small language model for mobile and web applications via Google AI Edge, is now available, with increased efficiency, improved performance, and offline availability.
JavaOne 2025 heralds Java’s 30th birthday
With Java advancing toward its 30th anniversary, Oracle will hold its annual JavaOne conference next week, centering around the Java language, the evolution of the Java platform, and the role of Java in areas such as generative AI and machine learning...
Go-based TypeScript to dramatically improve speed, scalability
Microsoft is developing a native TypeScript implementation based on Google’s Go language. The initiative promises dramatic improvements in editor startup speed, build times, and memory usage, making it easier to scale TypeScript to large code bases,...
3 of the best LLM integration tools for R
When we first looked at this space in late 2023, many generative AI R packages focused largely on OpenAI and ChatGPT-like functionality or coding add-ins. Today, the landscape includes packages that natively support more LLM suppliers—including mode...
Has AWS lost its edge?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long maintained its dominance in the cloud computing market, serving as the backbone for many enterprises’ digital transformation efforts for more than a decade. However, recent shifts in strategy suggest that AWS may b...
Fortran, Delphi rise in Tiobe popularity index
Older programming languages such as Fortran and Delphi are making a comeback, based on the results of this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity. Tiobe attributes their rise to the need to maintain vital legacy systems still dependent on them. ...
Building generative AI? Get ready for generative UI
There’s currently no stopping generative AI spending. Analyst firm Omdia expects spending on generative AI applications to hit $58 billion by 2028. Yet while this level of investment is a significant amount, actual deployment of generative AI applic...
Vibes won’t make your software successful
I regret to inform you that vibes don’t pay the bills. Specifically, open source vibes. For as long as I’ve followed open source, there has been a tendency for the industry to focus on normative values of open source, i.e., why people should embra...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #271
Hashtag Jakarta EE #271 Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have just arrived home from Devnexus 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. The upcoming week, I will stay at home before going to JavaOne 2025 in Redwood Shores, ...
Microsoft previews AI chat template for .NET
Microsoft is previewing a .NET web app template intended to enable quick development of AI-powered chat applications. Part of an ongoing effort to make AI development with .NET easier to discover and use, the AI Chat Web App template was announced Mar...
Devnexus 2025
Devnexus 2025 Devnexus 2025 is a wrap!. This conference, run by Atlanta Java User Group is one of my absolute favourite conferences. There is so much going on and the hallway track is so fun. It has to be with such an amazing speaker lineup. This year,...
