Since
I’ve followed Glen Smith’s blog and Peter Ledbrook’s work for months, I had
high expectations for this book. At the end, I experienced no dissatisfaction....
4 replies - 9579 views - 09/03/09 by Alessio Spadaro in Book Reviews
DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an
exclusive chapter from 'Grails in Action' (by Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook). This chapter covers what messaging is, how it works, and how it aids scalable architectures. It describes how to...
8 replies - 5557 views - 07/27/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles
In this session, recorded at JAOO Aarhus 2008, Anders Hejlsberg
provides fascinating insight to the future of programming languages. He
talks extensively...
6 replies - 15010 views - 04/15/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Videos
In this interview, Ruby programmer and consultant Rick DeNatale provides his perspective on the fall and rise of dynamic languages, including
Smalltalk and...
4 replies - 8979 views - 02/25/09 by Jared Richardson in Videos
Sun Microsystems announced today that it would be laying off 6,000 employees (18% of it’s workforce) in an attempt to better realign itself with “global economic climate”. The company will be focusing on:
Application Development (?)Systems Platform...
37 replies - 10956 views - 11/15/08 by Riyad Kalla 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 languages are not conceptually refactorable, which speeds up code rotting.
0 replies - 3803 views - 08/11/08 by Jevgeni Kabanov in Articles
This is a continuation of my previous posts describing layers of code
written in different programming languages. I have thought about the
things involved for a while, and had several discussions with people
about it. There were some parts that I didn't...
0 replies - 11018 views - 06/03/08 by Ola Bini in News
