A year or two ago a minor storm circled around the cloud community after a report was published questioning the environmental impacts of cloud computing. The...
0 replies - 1987 views - 10/29/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles
"It is hard for other people to give up on the notion of
design simplicity. For example, the notion of simple design is espoused
in...
1 replies - 3658 views - 10/29/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles
A question recently came up at work about benchmarks between Java and
Scala. Maybe you came across my blog post because you too are wanting
to know...
0 replies - 15515 views - 10/29/12 by James Roper in Articles
Scala:
Adorned
Overflowing
Magnificent
Clojure:
Clean
Structured
Focused
Clojure has a zen-like quality to it. There is extreme...
0 replies - 964 views - 10/29/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles
These days I’m noticing myself saying more and more frequently that Duck Typing is great, except when it’s not.
An amusing issue that briefly cropped up...
0 replies - 3362 views - 10/28/12 by Oliver Hookins in Articles
Automated testing is an essential part of application life-cycle (see Continuous Integration).
In web-development we usually test: Back-end (*Unit-tests),...
0 replies - 2793 views - 10/28/12 by Dmitry Sheiko in Articles
Unit tests don't find bugs. They find regressions. This is a
painful lesson I learned when I first started doing TDD (test-driven
development), and...
22 replies - 22965 views - 10/27/12 by Shannon Behrens in Articles
The content of this article was originally written by Mark Bakker on the Xebia blog. In my current role as application performance specialist I see a lot
of...
0 replies - 2095 views - 10/26/12 by Sylvain Beaumont in Articles
In case you missed it! We've put together a list of this past week's happenings, goings-ons, new releases, and popular articles. So you're all caught up in the...
0 replies - 3872 views - 10/25/12 by Allen Coin in Articles
This might have been hidden somewhere between the lines, but you can now run Java on iOS devices.Oracle found a solution for the "iOS can't run Java"...
8 replies - 34010 views - 10/25/12 by Shay Shmeltzer in Articles
OK, my adrenaline is back to normal, and it's time for a wrap-up about JavaOne.
As the Main Event in which we participate every year, this year’s JavaOne...
0 replies - 2280 views - 10/25/12 by Baruch Sadogursky in Articles
According to the Gift of Life foundation, in Europe and the United States 80% of children diagnosed with cancer survive.
In Russia fewer than 70% do.
Because...
0 replies - 4236 views - 10/25/12 by Dmitry Leskov in Articles
Last Monday, I gave a talk on Node.js with Windows Azure at the Israel
Windows Azure User Group. First of all, I find it incredible that the
group meets...
0 replies - 2475 views - 10/24/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles
After a summer of speculation, mock-ups, and leaked photos, Apple announced the iPad Mini on Tuesday, along with an updated full-sized iPad, dramatically...
1 replies - 3137 views - 10/24/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles
As you might recall, www.alice-dsl.de is one of our web properties we’re responsible for. And due to this we had a rather busy week. Reason for this can be...
0 replies - 3218 views - 10/23/12 by Markus Leptien in Articles
