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Will Oracle kill the Java community?

Will Oracle be good to Java's developers?

By Robert McMillan | 04 June, 2009 03:41

Tags: Java, javafx, oracle, Oracle-Sun merger

Should computer programming be mandatory for students?

If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the State Board of Education have their way, soon every California student will have to pass an algebra test to graduate from the eighth grade.

By Neil McAllister | 03 October, 2008 08:59

Tags: education, Java, software development

Nokia challenges developers to think outside the phone

You don't have to be a programmer to be a mobile innovator. All you need to do is open your eyes to the fact that a smart phone or QWERTY handset is a personal computer, sans legacy baggage. In the future, user-facing computers will have more in common with the high-end mobile devices of today than with the eight-core desktops and quad-core notebooks of 2009.

By Tom Yager | 02 October, 2008 11:55

Tags: Nokia

Java is free at last, now what?

Java started down the road to openness more than a year ago. Today it's finally free.

My kid could code that

Imagine what it must be like to be an abstract-expressionist painter. You spend countless hours slaving over the canvas, applying all your creative talents and academic training to produce the truest expression of your painterly art, only to hear some gallery patron whisper, "My kid could do that."

Parallel processing calls for a Fortress mentality

When you're the inventor of one of the most successful and influential programming languages of the last decade, what do you do for an encore? Judging by demos at the recent JavaOne conference, if you're Sun Microsystems, you invent another programming language.

JAVAONE - Can Sun rejuvenate Java?

Sun Microsystems is trying to rejuvenate Java, using the JavaOne conference last week to position the 13-year-old Java platform as a foundation for next-generation technologies in such spaces as rich Internet applications and cloud-based services.

Product review: WaveMaker

There was a moment in history when assembly coding and the knowledge of it largely disappeared from the world. Before it, the programmers knew and cared about the binary code the CPU saw, even if they relied upon a compiler to build much of it. After that moment, the IDEs came along and did so many things automatically that programmers stopped caring about such things as linking or op codes.

The best open source programming language

When we started working on the Bossies, we divided the broad Application Development group into many subcategories, including Language. It seemed like a good idea at the time.