IDEs have become the preferred working environment for developers, leaving most long-standing text editors with no future … continue reading
The drive toward small, user-made solutions will push Java’s future away from the cumbersome Java EE … continue reading
When it comes to security and a few other issues, public-cloud products have a ways to go before they are truly reliable … continue reading
Apache’s actions stem from two poor assumptions about open source: that it needs defending, and that it is innately superior … continue reading
Off-site development has the benefits of SaaS solutions, which is why companies are looking into it now more than ever … continue reading
Fear over Oracle’s control over Java is unfounded; its revamps to Java will improve the platform … continue reading
Not much is happening in the land of Java, but Ruby is getting more traction with JRuby … continue reading
Forking is talked about a lot, but in truth there are rarely enough resources and open-source developers to make them work … continue reading
Not much progress has been made in the field of parallel programming. What can be done to advance it? … continue reading
Integration tools are technically better than they were decades ago, but they still lack some basically critical things … continue reading
Andrew Binstock looks over the current crop of books addressing software design, but he finds them lacking … continue reading