If you have questions about application threading, memory management, synchronization, concurrency, or anything else related to parallel programming, who better to ask than the experts at Intel? Starting Monday, April
Over the past several weeks, I’ve had the obligatory parental experience of teaching a teenager to drive. This can be a nerve-wracking process as the new driver learns the mechanics
At the opening keynote of this week’s Oracle OpenWorld Conference, Sun Chairman and Co-founder Scott McNealy called the father of Java, James Gosling, on stage to again reiterate Oracle’s dedication
If you’re going to host a tech conference in the middle of a global recession, O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) wouldn’t be a bad choice. What does a bear market
Recently, I learned a valuable lesson in modern programming efficiency: Problem-solving abilities often take a backseat to information retrieval and analysis. I was working on an application that saved images
The new Sun boss put the OpenOffice and JavaFX groups on notice during the JavaOne opening keynote today: Produce some JavaFX libraries for the OpenOffice suite and do it quickly.
When Oracle bought Sun, it got Java. If you make your living in Java development, that statement can make you cringe, smile, or shrug—depending on how well you think Sun
As job losses in the U.S. mount, under pressure not only from the current economic downturn/depression, but also from foreign competition, de-unionization, outsourcing, offshoring, and imported labor (both legal and
Publishers take heed: If you don’t have the content, the readers won’t come. As a publisher of developer-related content, I spend a significant amount of time researching technical topics,