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 It's Advent, the time of year when we countdown the days to Christmas having fun doing daily coding challenges. Advents, in the programming sense, are events hosting programming puzzles announced every day till Christmas, aimed at a variety of skill levels.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/204-challenges/18494-advent-of-code-2025-commences.html

 The official release of Vaadin MCP server is a reality.

What does it make different?

Yes I'm a fan of Vaadin. I've used it in a couple of projects and productivity was sky high. For those not initiated to the framework, Vaadin allows you to write Java code for the front-end and back-end; no Javascript required, which is an unlikely dream for full stack engineers that nevertheless turned to reality.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18481-vaadin-now-does-mcp.html

 DPAI is an open platform for benchmarking AI coding Agents. Haven't we got enough benchmarks and evaluations already?

To answer this question, yes we have; but for LLM performance, not coding agent performance. And by that we mean comparing for instance:

Anthropic Claude Code CLI AI Agent
           vs
Google Gemini CLI AI Agent
          vs
JetBrains Junie AI Agent (Claude Sonnet)
          vs
JetBrains Junie AI Agent (GPT 5)
         vs
OpenAI Codex CLI AI Agent

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18475-jetbrains-developer-productivity-ai-arena-is-a-game-changer.html

The more elaborate the prompt the better the outcome. But how do I construct a really great prompt? The answer to that question is given by this free, official Anthropic step-by-step guide which shows how to construct prompts that get optimal answers out of the Claude LLM.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18470-anthropics-prompt-engineering-tutorial.html

 Deepnote, hailed as the Jupyter Notebook successor,is now open-sourced after 7 years running as a sole cloud offering.

 InfluxData has released InfluxDB 3.6 for both Core and Enterprise, a  new version which incorporates AI and performance improvements. But, first of all what's the difference between Core and Enterprise?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18465-influxdb-36-released-with-ai-capabilities.html

 EuroLLM is a fully open-sourced large language model made in Europe and built to support all twenty-four official EU languages.

While several European states have separately produced their own LLMs, such as Greece's "Meltemi" or the recent offering from Switzerland "Apertus", there was no solution that catered for the languages of all 24 states belonging to the EU block. The time has come for this status to change with the appearance of EuroLLM, a foundational model that supports them all.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18448-europe-gets-its-own-llm.html

 A new major version of Grails has been announced, together with news of its graduation to an Apache top-level project.

Despite its already long life, which began in 2005, the venerable JVM project just got out of incubation, graduating to a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. What is the importance of that?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18441-apache-grails-70-released.html

 Copilot breaks loose from its deep integration with VSCode, and now embraces the CLI Warriors in offering a terminal-based interface too. At last Copilot gets its own CLI version, bringing it up to par with competitors like Gemini CLI or Claude Code CLI.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18432-github-copilot-cli-and-spaces-in-preview.html

 Microsoft has merged Semantic Kernel and AutoGen to create the Agent Framework, stirring the AI Agent waters.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18425-exploring-the-microsoft-agent-framework.html