The Linux Foundation has set up a new organization dedicated to the advancement of the R programming language. Called the R Consortium, the group will be governed by a steering committee and a board of directors. Some of its initial projects will likely include strengthening the R-Forge infrastructure, developing documentation
The Eclipse Foundation, the group behind the popular open source Eclipse IDE, releases an annual “train” of updates for its projects. This year’s train, codenamed Mars, was released on schedule and included 79 different projects. Some of the more significant were Jubula, a Client API that allows developers to store
Short History of Java Java originated in 1995 and it was the language of the Internet and provided some unheard of capabilities in mainstream static typed languages, such as garbage collection, cross-platform out of the box (Write Once Run Anywhere), automatic documentation and the ability to run inside the browser