Today, we announced that Twitter is joining the Java Community Process (JCP) and OpenJDK project. The JVM and its rich ecosystem are critical to our infrastructure and have helped us scale up as a business. Additionally, the polyglot nature of the JVM allows programming languages such as Java, Scala, Ruby, Javascript and Clojure to coexist seamlessly and, thus, lets Twitter choose the optimal language for the task at hand.
We are happy to announce Bootstrap, a front-end toolkit for rapidly developing web applications. It is a collection of CSS and HTML conventions. It uses some of the latest browser techniques to provide you with stylish typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation and everything else you need in a super tiny (only 6k with gzip) resource. Check out Bootstrap on Github.
A few months ago, Matt Harris and I were invited to present at Open Web Camp 3, which took place on July 16th. We’ve been fans of Open Web Camp for some time, so we took up the opportunity to participate.