Red Hat's IcedTea Powers OpenJDK to Full TCK Compatibility (no encumbered code)
Most of you know that the road to open source Java has been a long and winding one. Today an important milestone was announced, and through the... more »
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Java is finally Free and Open
This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone - The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous... more »
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Java 5 Function Object Awesomeness
You don't see a lot of blog posts about how great function objects are in Java. It's pretty popular to hate on Java in this area. You're not really a... more »
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Why people like programming in Haskell
The average salary of Haskell programmers... (both of them!)
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The Fan language - Is it JavaNG?
The Fan programming language is one I've been watching for a couple of months since it first launched its website. Its statically typed like Java and... more »
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Rapid Linux apps using object databases
When you think of databases usually MySQL or Oracle or even Microsoft SQL Server come to mind. Yet, object oriented databases have the potential to... more »
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Incremental Development Environments
Back in 1997, when I started working at Sun, I did not expect to do much programming language design. After all, Java was completely specified in the... more »
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JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov on IntelliJ 8, Flex, and Scala
Dmitry Jemerov is a lead developer on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA. In this wide-ranging interview with Artima, Jemerov discusses the main focus areas for... more »
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Dead like COBOL
With the recent reports of Java's imminent demise, you're probably wondering if it's time to leave the platform behind for greener pastures. Before... more »
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Effective Java: An Interview with Joshua Bloch
The most anticipated book among Java developers over the past few years has been the second edition of Effective Java by Joshua Bloch. The book was... more »
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PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter
I remember my first experience with PHP way back in 2001. Despite my questionable pedigree in ASP and Visual Basic, browsing an alphabetical PHP... more »
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Scala Goes Dynamic with JavaRebel
We decided that we can facilitate the Scala adoption by putting its productivity on par with the dynamic languages. To do that we have created a... more »
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Develop with Git on a Google Code Project
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Do you often work offline? Wish you could make local commits that you can reorganize and upload later? Would you like to have your own copy of the... more »
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Making IntelliJ IDEA Run Faster and Better
bloid via techper.net
I took the time to listen to the, about one hour long, IntelliJ IDEA Architecture and Performance video, by Dmitry Jemerov from Jetbrains. Most of the... more »
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How to answer 23 of the most common interview questions
Let’s face it; no one likes the interview process. Well, certainly not the people being interviewed anyway. You have to be on your best behavior, you... more »
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Ola Bini: Break Java!
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As some of you might have noticed I am not extremely fond of everything the Java language. I have spent some time lately trying to figure out how I... more »
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Erlang vs. Scala
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In my time wasting activities on geeky social news sites, I’ve been seeing more and more articles about Scala. The main reasons I became interested in... more »
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Criticisms of Spring
The Spring Framework is popular. It has also met with a disturbing lack of criticism. The following remarks are based on Spring 2.0. Spring is huge,... more »
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Book Excerpt and Interview: Effective Java, Second Edition
Effective Java, Second Edition by Joshua Bloch is an updated version of the classic first edition. Addison-Wesley, made an excerpt available to InfoQ... more »
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Return of the Statically Typed Languages
My good buddy Steve Yegge posted quite an article yesterday. It's the transcript of a presentation he gave at Stanford a few days ago, and the overall... more »
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Sun is bleeding; More engineers leave as JavaFX is pimped
I talked about how I thought Sun was drowning back when Chet Haase left Sun and joined the Flex team at Adobe. It wasn’t that without Chet Sun was... more »
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Dynamic Languages Strike Back
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Some guys at Stanford invited me to speak at their EE Computer Systems Colloquium last week. Pretty cool, eh? It was quite an honor. I wound up giving... more »
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I want enums in PHP
I'm currently working about equally in PHP and Java. I can't say I've fallen in love with Java. But Java does have a feature or two that would be... more »
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