PaaS vs MBaaS for Mobile Developers
Kii Cloud is a mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) which takes commonly-used functionality on the server side and makes it easily... more »
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The DZone Community's 2012 Developer Profile
In June 2012, DZone undertook a survey of the DZone community to better understand your experiences as developers and professionals. If... more »
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33rd Degree 2013 - Conference for Java Masters
Have you missed Devoxx? No worries. For as low as 50 EUR or 130 EUR full pass you can enjoy 3 days of talks by Java Rock Stars speakers.... more »
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eXo Insights from Devoxx World 2012
Two weeks ago, three eXoers had the opportunity to attend the Devoxx 2012 conference, aka Devoxx World, in Belgium. Alain Defrance... more »
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Mary had a little λ - Using Java 8 Lambda Expressions for Event Handling
With continued progress on JDK 8 efforts, I thought we'd explore some of its features together over the next few blog posts. The first... more »
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It's time for DZone to have a tag for Scala
Don't you think Scala as one of the most, if not the most important JVM language deserves its own tag at DZone? just as Groovy has one.... more »
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A Pragmatic Guide to Scala Adoption in Your Java Organization
Is Scala too complicated for widespread adoption, or is it that Devs who tinker around with things they don’t fully understand make Scala... more »
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We Need a Programmer for President
Today, I'm going to present a new presidential candidate... A software developer candidate. This candidate is going to address the issues... more »
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It's here! Scala 2.10 is released
Scala 2.10 has been officially released including many new features. Value classes, string interpolation and the inclusion of Akka actors... more »
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Things Great Engineers (Almost) Never Say
If you find yourself using any of these lines on a regular basis, give some thought to why. Quoting one of these lines in a job interview... more »
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How I manage 40 people remotely
I’ve been running Treehouse since August 2010 from my home in the United Kingdom. We started with just three people (me, Nick Pettit and... more »
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Why JSON will continue to push XML out of the picture
The world’s digital infrastructure is currently characterized by a plethora of data interchange formats. It’s not the least bit... more »
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I Don't Care About "Agile"
All ideas are great, until they are confronted with reality. The concept of Management By Objectives by Peter F. Drucker was great,... more »
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James Gosling on JavaFX: What a lovely new world of UIs
Paraphrasing James Gosling; I don't always write blog posts, but when I do ... ;-) The founder of Java gives his impression of JavaFX,... more »
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Exo IDE: Cheerful Features for a Cheery Season
It’s a cheery time of year. And this month’s Exo IDE release brings you all sorts of cheerful features. We are revealing a new invitation... more »
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The 4 Most Important Skills for a Software Developer
Most often the question someone asks is based on whether or not they should invest their time in a particular programming language or... more »
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You Can Write Large Programs in JavaScript. You Just Can't Maintain Them.
From a panel discussion at Lang.NEXT on cloud and web programming this afternoon.
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The CenterDevice Cloud Architecture
My colleague Fabian gives an overview of the cloud architecture of CenterDevice.
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How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid?
Last week Glassdoor published its most recent software engineering salary report. Short version: it pays to code. Google and Facebook... more »
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Modern threading for not-quite-beginners
Your first multi-threaded Java program is fairly easy. When you get to the intermediate level, though ... Not only is there a dizzying... more »
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Java Is Still The Most Secure Widespread Runtime
The recent Java bug is in the SecurityManager. In other words, the hole threatens mainly applets or Web-delivered Java fat clients. I... more »
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Infoworld: Which freaking database should I use?
In the era of big data, good old RDBMS is no longer the right tool for many database jobs. Here's a quick guide to choosing among NoSQL alternatives
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10 Steps To Becoming The Developer Everyone Wants
You're a crack coder and people depend on you to solve their issues. Still not enough? Here's how to hit that next level
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Programmer Time Translation Cheatsheet -or- Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Times
An experienced project manager I used to work with claimed that he took the programmers’ time estimates, multiplied by pi and converted... more »
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