JBoss Microcontainer Series

In part 4 of his Microcontainer series, Ales Justin looks under the hood at JBoss MC's varous classloading features.

Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 with JavaFX Now Available for Download!

The NetBeans Team is pleased to announce the release of NetBeans IDE 6.7.1, which supports the latest JavaFX SDK. Download NetBeans 6.7.1 (A JavaFX-only...

1 replies - 4490 views - 07/27/09 by Tinu A in Announcements

Google App Engine Spurs Python Growth

An Evans Data Corp survey shows a 45% increase in the usage of Python since Spring of 2008 - the same time Google's App Engine was announced.  The results...

3 replies - 297 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

LTech's New Tools for Google Apps

Today, LTech announced two cloud enablement tools for the Google Apps platform.  They announced the release of the Single Sign-On application, which provides...

0 replies - 758 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Free Cheat Sheet: GlassFish Application Server v3

Getting Started with GlassFish Application Server v3 begins by introducing you to what GlassFish is and how to get it.  Then it goes on to prove its worth as...

0 replies - 702 views - 11/16/09 by lyndsey in Announcements

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor?  Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card?  It drives eight monitors, each...

0 replies - 2465 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Wake Me Up Before Google's Go Goes

Itching to try a new programming language?  Google has you covered.  They just released an open source, experimental language called "Go".  Google...

0 replies - 2170 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun.  Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five...

0 replies - 2770 views - 11/07/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been...

12 replies - 7189 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

An Introduction to Functional Languages

There has been explosion of software development languages in recent years. Chief among these languages or programming approaches is functional programming. ...

10 replies - 9197 views - 06/25/09 by Ken Sipe in Articles

The New Era of Programming Languages

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 - 8404 views - 06/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

NetBeans IDE 6.7 Release Candidate 1 Available for Download!

The NetBeans team is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.7 Release Candidate 1!

2 replies - 4009 views - 06/01/09 by Tinu A in News

The Server Side Java Symposium Europe: Day 2 & Day 3

Although I would have liked to post this on Day 2 and Day 3 of the symposium last week, I could get down to doing it only this morning. Day 2 and Day 3 had a...

4 replies - 3783 views - 06/23/08 by Shashank Tiwari in News

Fractal Programming

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...

0 replies - 5855 views - 06/03/08 by olabini in News

Functional Programming 101: Lists and Closures

A key feature of functional programming languages are their list data structures. In many languages the list can store items of disparate data types, and...

1 replies - 830 views - 05/28/08 by Pramod Subramanyan in News

Python and the Star Schema

The star schema represents data as a table of facts (measurable values) that are associated with the various dimensions of the fact. Common dimensions include...

0 replies - 985 views - 05/20/08 by slott in News