0 replies - 1332 views - 01/20/12 by Rob Terpilowski in Articles
The judge in the Oracle-Google case doesn't know what a class is. Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court will soon be hearing Oracle's case against open-source giant Google. On April 6th, lawyers from both Google and Oracle met with the judge to...
1 replies - 12374 views - 04/08/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
It was announced by Miguel de Icaza, the project lead for Mono (the open-source implementation of the .NET Framework) that the MonoDroid beta is now open for public access. MonoDroid is an abstraction layer on top of the Android SDK that allows .NET...
2 replies - 14902 views - 01/05/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
My $0.02 worth of opinion on how all the Oracle shennanigans are impacting my development focus choice. You don’t know me. Larry Ellison certainly doesn’t know me. I am a nobody. A typically esoteric strange developer coder type nobody. But still a nobody...
17 replies - 5913 views - 10/26/10 by Anonymous in Articles
In this section of DZone's interview with Jonathan Bruce, he explains what the .NET community could learn from Java persistence, and vice versa. Bruce also...
0 replies - 11489 views - 06/07/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Videos
Given a Pair<T, U> type in Java, Scala or C#, such as Map.Entry, Tuple2 or KeyValuePair respectively, you can construct type-checked variadic heterogenous containers that you can write general methods to operate on. Let's write a Pair interface for Java...
0 replies - 6550 views - 06/25/08 by Ricky Clarkson in Articles
It is with some dismay I've been reading the latest Groovy discussions
on Javalobby. I've spent quite some time learning Scala, so it bothered
me a bit that I minded another competing language a spot in the
limelight. Why would I care? To me as a consultant,...
10 replies - 14918 views - 02/20/08 by Mats Henricson in News
Interesting story today asking whether LINQ has given .NET an edge over Java. LINQ is best-known as a way to embed SQL-like statements directly in code. However, it's really a much deeper technology that allows you effectively build DSL-like constructs in...
4 replies - 17756 views - 01/30/08 by Alex Miller in News