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Daily Dose - Ken Thompson Still Has To Take Google's Language Test

An extremely ironic quote from the co-inventor of Unix and the C language, Ken Thompson, was found in the book Coders at Work.  The quote was posted by Gawker...

0 replies - 17344 views - 04/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

C++, Java and .NET: Lessons Learned from the Internet Age

Today at TSSJS, I attended Cameron Purdy's keynote titled C++, Java and .NET: Lessons learned from the Internet Age, and What it means for the Cloud and...

3 replies - 6924 views - 03/19/10 by Matt Raible in News

Electric Cloud's New Tools Avoid Unnecessary Builds

Electric Cloud has recently developed several unique capabilities for its software production suite, and now the company has built these technologies into the...

0 replies - 6988 views - 02/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.9 M1: OSGi Support, JDK 6 Required

Only a few months after the release of NetBeans 6.8, 6.9 development is already well underway with the release of its first milestone.  This is the first...

0 replies - 18028 views - 02/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

LLVM's Clang Compiler Achieves Self-Hosting

Self-sufficiency is a major milestone for any compiler technology.  The LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) developers were pleased to announce that their open...

0 replies - 6002 views - 02/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Popular Languages of 2009

The TIOBE index for 2009 says that Google's new Go programming language experienced more growth in popularity than any other language in 2009.  The growth is...

6 replies - 22320 views - 01/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

SparkBuild: A Free Build Avoidance Tool

Just a few weeks ago, Electric Cloud launched the first GA version of SparkBuild, a free GNU Make (gmake) and NMAKE-based build tool that offers true build...

0 replies - 9032 views - 12/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Java EE 6 and NetBeans 6.8 Arrive Today

This morning Sun announced the release of the Java EE 6 SDK and the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, which is the first application server to support Java EE...

1 replies - 15130 views - 12/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/2

Neelie Kroes, the EU antagonist to Oracle's takeover of Sun, is stepping down as the Commission on Competition chair.  There's no word on whether the decision...

2 replies - 13142 views - 12/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has...

15 replies - 18643 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing...

2 replies - 17816 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles