Java creator Gosling bails on new Google job to play with boats
Java creator James Gosling, whose resignation from Oracle was the key event in the Java community's rebellion against Oracle's plans for it, has now quit Oracle to work on a company that builds...
View Article7 questions to ask yourself when selecting an industry for your next job
I’m a Java developer, was recently laid off, and am now in the process of looking for a new job. Is there a specific industry, such as retail, that you would suggest I concentrate on?read more
View ArticleOracle's Java claims now less than $230 million
Oracle's Java infringement case against Google has come a long way since the heady days of $6.1 billion in damages.read more
View ArticleOracle's hard choice: Dismiss patent claims against Google?
Updated: All but two of the remaining Java patent infringement claims brought against Google by Oracle will be dropped to get the rest of the trial underway, according to an Oracle motion filed...
View ArticleKaspersky doubles up slam at Apple, Mac OS X
Two Kaspersky Labs top execs publicly and explicitly slammed Apple for poor security in recent weeks as Apple customers go through the pain of growing into malware targets and Kaspersky makes a big...
View ArticleJava creator unhappy with Oracle trial outcome
Most observers are applauding Google its successes in the Oracle v. Google case... but not everyone is thrilled about it.read more
View ArticleSolr, Lucene alpha releases bring speed and scale
Enterprise search just got a nice pre-holiday surprise with the 4.0-alpha releases of both Apache Solr and Lucene.read more
View ArticleThe Weekly Hash - August 31, 2012
A review of some of the top tech stories for the past week, with tongue planted firmly somewhere near cheek.read more
View ArticleJava exploits threaten billions of Macs and PCs. Here's how to protect...
Find out if your computer is vulnerable to Java exploits, and how to remove Java to protect yourself from these security risksread more
View ArticleRSVP required: The code that drives the Mars Curiosity rover
NASA engineers not only drive the the Curiosity rover, they also write the code used to tell it where to go and what to do each dayread more
View ArticleSecurity stories to watch: Patches for Java, IE, and SCADA-pocalypse!
The patches are out for both Java and Internet Explorer, but this is hardly the end of the story - or the hand wringing. Also: a SCADA-pocalypse! read more
View ArticleMaking music recommendations with care
The Echo Nest serves up music recommendations for a number of popular music services, like Spotify and Rdio. Here’s how they do itread more
View ArticleThe Weekly Hash - February 8, 2013
From the world’s new largest prime number to the key to BlackBerry 10’s success in Canada to one group not happy with all the bugs Microsoft is squishing, we make fun of some of the this week’s top...
View ArticleThe Weekly Hash - February 15, 2013
From the College of Cardinals’ new high tech method for choosing a pope to Google’s new private airport to the president’s geeky Fireside Chat we make fun of some of the this week’s top tech...
View ArticleReligion, politics and coding indentation style: the three great debates
Forget abortion and gun control; if you want to get programmers arguing at your next party, bring up tabs versus spaces when indenting coderead more
View ArticleThe only thing programmers have to fear is... all of these things
From being outsourced to getting bored to hurting somebody with a bug, software developers find lots of things to worry about read more
View ArticleWait – maybe JavaScript IS the top programming language
The ubiquitous language that’s the “glue” of web pages tops some recent rankings of programming languagesread more
View ArticleThe most WTF-y programming languages
The GitHub Archive reveals which languages seem to baffle developers the mostread more
View ArticleAn easy timesaver to create Java classes from JSON data
Writing a Java application (see Android) that consumes a JSON API usually involves mapping the JSON objects to Java classes for use in the software. This is a tedious and repetitive task to say the...
View Article500 free programming books? GitHub's got 'em
A new repository is devoted to a list of free online programming booksread more
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