Hashtag Jakarta EE #295
Hashtag Jakarta EE #295 Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I toured South America on the LAOUC Community Tour 2025. I visited Buenos Aires and São Paulo. Even if it is not my usual Java crows, It is g...
LAOUC Community Tour 2025 – Brazil
LAOUC Community Tour 2025 – Brazil My second and last stop on the LAOUC Community Tour 2025 was São Paulo. This event, GUOB Tech Day 2025 was organised by the Brazilian Oracle User Group (GUOB) and about 300 attendees showed up. I presented a talk t...
LAOUC Community Tour 2025 – Argentina
LAOUC Community Tour 2025 – Argentina This is the second time I am participating in the LAOUC Community Tour. My first stop was Buenos Aires and the event organized by the Argentinian Oracle User Group. Due to the heavy rain in Buenos Aires this Wedn...
Better Control over Your Copilot Code Suggestions
Copilot code completions and suggestions in the editor speed you up in your daily programming and coding activities, at every keystroke. They help you finish the line you’re typing or anticipate your next edit, making your workflow smoother and faste...
JCrete 2025
JCrete 2025 I tried to figure out how many editions of JCrete I have attended. Let’s just say that it’s been quite a few, and I enjoy is just as much every time I return. The community at JCrete is just incredible, the food is awesome. The only thi...
Bring Your Own Model to Chat in Visual Studio
We’re excited to announce that you can now bring your own language model into Visual Studio Chat. You can connect API keys from providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) to access a wider range of models. This makes it easy to test the latest release...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #294
Hashtag Jakarta EE #294 Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is another short update due to the vacation period. After JCrete, I had a week of vacation where I was more or less totally off the grid. That also...
Improving Codebase Awareness in Visual Studio Chat
Smarter Code Search in Visual Studio: From BM25 to Semantic Search In our latest 17.14.11 release, we’ve made a significant leap forward in how we explore your code to retrieve meaningful context. Our new Remote Semantic Search integration helps yo...
GPT-5 Now Available in Visual Studio
We’re excited to share that GPT-5, OpenAI’s latest frontier model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio. GPT-5 offers faster responses and even better performance for writing and understanding code. This release brings a new level...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #193
Hashtag Jakarta EE #193 Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Not much to update this time since I was attending JCrete last week and is on vacation this week. The Jakarta EE Platform project is having a summer br...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #293
Hashtag Jakarta EE #293 Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Not much to update this time since I was attending JCrete last week and is on vacation this week. The Jakarta EE Platform project is having a summer br...
