Google Backs Out of JavaOne Citing concerns about Oracle's lawsuit against it, Google has backed out of the upcoming JavaOne conference. 'Oracle's recent lawsuit against... August 28th, 2010
.Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft With Oracle suing Google over 'unofficial' support for Java in Android, Microsoft has come out and said it has no intention of... August 27th, 2010
The Case For Oracle In a lucid writeup, InfoWorld's Neil McAllister takes a different angle on the Oracle-Google lawsuit, giving an explanation why... August 22nd, 2010
Introducing JITB — a Flash Player Built On the JVM Joa Ebert has started working on a new program called JITB. Announced in a talk at FITC San Fran, it's a Flash player written to use the Java... August 20th, 2010
Oracle Sues Google For Infringing Java Patents Oracle has brought a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google has infringed patents on the Java platform in Android. Scribd has a copy... August 13th, 2010
How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? I was a proficient software engineer in the 1980s, writing hundreds of thousands of lines of ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal programs, as well... August 1st, 2010
Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse In Java 1.6.0_21, the company field was changed from 'Sun Microsystems, Inc' to 'Oracle.' Apparently not the best idea, because some... July 28th, 2010
Java IO Faster Than NIO Paul Tyma, the man behind Mailinator, has put together an excellent performance analysis comparing old-school synchronous programming (java.io.*)... July 27th, 2010
Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ Google distinguished engineer Rob Pike ripped the use of Java and C++ during his keynote at OSCON, saying that these 'industrial programming... July 23rd, 2010
Open Source Music Fingerprinter Gets Patent Nastygram The code wasn't even released, and yet Roy van Rijn, a Music & Free Software enthusiast received a C&D from Landmark Digital Services,... July 8th, 2010
Groovy For Domain-Specific Languages This is a book targeted primarily towards the Java programmer who doesn't yet know Groovy. Groovy is a dynamic scripting language that runs... July 8th, 2010
Java's Backup Plan If Oracle Fumbles In an InfoWorld blog, Paul Krill suggests that those concerned that Java might get lost in Oracle's tangle of acquired technologies should... July 4th, 2010
Android vs. iPhone 4 Signal Strength Bars Comparison In light of the clamor over the iPhone 4 Grip of Death, AnandTech recently reverse-engineered the phone's signal-strength-to-bars... July 3rd, 2010
Many Popular Windows Apps Ignore Security Options The latest versions of Microsoft Windows have some good security options available — now if only they could get their most popular... July 3rd, 2010
Firefox 3.6.4 Released With Out-of-Process Plugins Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 went to general release today. The big new feature in this release is out-of-process plugins (OOPP). This means things... June 22nd, 2010
Objective-C Enters Top Ten In Language Popularity Objective-C has entered the top 10 of the Tiobe Programming Community Index. Last year, it was at #39. The huge jump is attributed to its use in... June 2nd, 2010
Programming Clojure Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway was very near to the perfect book for me. It covers many things common to many Lisp languages while... May 17th, 2010
Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels A-level computer science students will no longer be taught C, C#, or PHP from next year following a decision to withdraw the languages by... May 13th, 2010
Open Source Guacamole Puts VNC On the Web A new open source project dubbed Guacamole allows users to access a desktop remotely through a web browser, potentially streamlining the... May 5th, 2010
IEEE Introduces Mario Level-Generation Competition Last year, the IEEE conference on Computational Intelligence and Games hosted a competition to determine who could write the best AI for... April 24th, 2010
Thoughts On the State of Web Development rmoskal recommends his blog post up at Most Media on finding the right level of abstraction, Grails, and SOFEA. "[Three years ago] I was very excited about... April 18th, 2010
Sun Pushes Emergency Java Patch In a sudden about-face, Sun has rushed out a Java update to fix a drive-by download vulnerability that exposed Windows users to... April 15th, 2010
"Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle James Gosling has confirmed he is leaving Sun/Oracle: 'Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd).... April 10th, 2010
Serious New Java Flaw Affects All Browsers There is a serious vulnerability in Java that makes all current browsers vulnerable to simple Web-based attacks that could lead to a... April 9th, 2010
iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps Apple had an event today to show off the next major update to the iPhone OS. iPhone OS 4.0 should arrive this summer (presumably with... April 8th, 2010
C Programming Language Back At Number 1 After more than 4 years C is back at position number 1 in the TIOBE index. The scores for C have been pretty constant through the years,... April 6th, 2010
The Struggle To Keep Java Relevant Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions Oracle's ability to revive interest in Java in the wake of Oracle VP Jeet Kaul's announcement at... April 2nd, 2010
Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5 A trio of Google engineers have ported id Software's gib-filled first-person shooter Quake II to browsers — you know, for kicks... April 2nd, 2010
Android's "Flea Market" Needs Urgent Attention According to Barry O'Neil, ex-President of Namco Bandai Network Europe, Google needs to understand that a constantly evolving 'beta' product... April 2nd, 2010
New Malware Overwrites Software Updaters Researchers at Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (BKIS), a Vietnamese security company, have found a new type of malware that 'masks itself as... March 26th, 2010