Atlassian shut down JavaBlogs the original go-to blog aggregator for Java.

The cat is out of the bag: yesterday, during Google I/O‘s keynote, we announced our new IntelliJ IDEA-based Android IDE, Android Studio. This is what my team has been working on for the past months.

Finally Oracle have bowed to growing pressure and come up with a quick-fix to the security problems besieging Java.

From the outside, writing code can seem closer to the practice of mathematics than something like painting or sculpture. Not so. Developers are inherently creative types – driven by the desire to build out their visions, taking an idea and turning it into a tangible thing of beauty, utility, and even mystery. This is nowhere more obvious than with game developers.

Today: The sketchy world of DDoSaaS, Apple's taxes, bringing the power of NumPy to HPC, why Googlers aren't using Glass at I/O, and some truly clever 3D-printed garden contraptions.

The Phraseology Project was originally setup by Drew Melton as a way for him to hone his typography skills. The idea is that people submit words or phrases and Drew, or a guest contributor, creates a typographic treatment of the submissions.

New project aims to increase security, standardise data formats and messaging protocols.

The Windows 8.1 public beta test is scheduled for June 26h, and Microsoft confirmed this upgrade will be free. It seems so soon after the original “8” came out. However, it was obvious to many home and business users that it could stand some room for improvement.

DroidParts, a set of libraries for Android, has reached it's next milestone. Comes with new features & improved documentation.

This 50-minute presentation from NoSQL Matters was given by Michael Hausenblas and covers Apache Drill.

Today’s cloud migration solutions are, for the most part, pretenders. Beyond virtualized workloads and small physical and virtualized apps they don’t properly support production workloads in the cloud.

Vol 4 of the Jenkins newsletter came out last night. It features Jenkins tips from founder Kohsuke, latest growth stats (730+ plugins, more than 61,000 active users), upcoming event details, Jenkins resources, and more useful info for Jenkins users.

I'm excited to announce a new set of workshops that I've been planning in collaboration with the folks from the BaltoMSDN user group and the CMAP Code Camp.