If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be? Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. ...
0 replies - 2806 views - 11/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
When I laid my hands on this book I was delighted to see that it's part
of "The Pragmatic Programmers" series. As a developer I have a high
respect for books in this series because they...
0 replies - 2446 views - 11/09/09 by gerps in Book Reviews
Scala has made a name for itself recently with the announcement in April that Twitter was in the process of converting their back-end from Ruby to Scala. The...
0 replies - 2906 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The following instructions will show you how to get the Scala plug-in working on NetBeans with Windows XP. First, if you haven't done so already, you will need...
2 replies - 2618 views - 09/08/09 by Pierre8r in Tips and Tricks
Scala is a language for the Java Virtual Machine that I have watched with interest for the past couple of years for its Functional (versus Imperative) language characteristics. I was excited a year...
1 replies - 2938 views - 08/21/09 by Tom Jensen in Book Reviews
Don't get me wrong - I've written tons of Java over the last decade or
so & think its been a great evolutionary step from C++ and
Smalltalk (lots of other...
24 replies - 8498 views - 07/08/09 by James Strachan in News
Burton Group has just published the overview I authored titled The New Era of Programming Languages. This is a timely document. The Tiobe Programming Index...
0 replies - 8451 views - 06/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
Walking out of the Moscone Center into the early evening air of San Francisco, it was hard to believe that JavaOne 2009 was over. Sure I'd spent four long days...
4 replies - 2208 views - 06/16/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Articles
In a previous post
I showed you how you could use mixin composition and self type
annotations to enable Dependency Injection (DI). Mixin composition is
an...
0 replies - 3521 views - 12/10/08 by Jonas Boner in Articles
Application performance is no longer a free lunch, and with current hardware trends of cores-for-the-chores, the search is on for the programming model that...
3 replies - 13433 views - 08/12/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles
One of the main problems brought out when comparing dynamic languages to static ones is lack of proper refactoring support. It is usually implied that dynamic...
0 replies - 2342 views - 08/11/08 by Jevgeni Kabanov in Articles
Today, the OSGi bundles concept with SSAP as the application server is one of the most interesting things that developer should know. In addition, Scala is...
1 replies - 5129 views - 08/05/08 by slim.ouertani in Articles
N-BRAIN today announced release of the next micro version of UNA (1.0.7404). This version of UNA adds support for three new languages that run on the Java...
0 replies - 1591 views - 07/11/08 by jdegoes in Announcements
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...
0 replies - 3289 views - 06/25/08 by Ricky Clarkson in Articles
On Paul's return from JavaOne this year, we spoke about Neal Gafter's Closures Cookbook talk. From what I understood, this was a look at the BGGA closures...
2 replies - 3957 views - 06/16/08 by d6y in Articles
