Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) has a long ways to go before it steps up to compete with Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash or AJAX or even Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Silverlight in building Web 2.0 applications. But it clearly has that goal in mind as it works on producing a version of JavaFX for the desktop, […]
It’s no longer just a .NET or Java world when it comes to production-quality development frameworks — PHP is edging its way into developers’ affections. Now, the technology’s backers are planning further efforts to expand on its successes.
Zend, PHP’s lead commercial sponsor, plans Monday to release its eponymous Framework 1.5, the first major release since […]
Using book sales as surrogate tea leaves, Mike Hendrickson of the O’Reilly Radar finds life bleak for pretty much every major programming language except C#, Javascript, and Ruby. Java? It has plunged by 50 percent since 2003.
Sun Microsystems is hedging its bets on web scripting languages, recently adding Python experts to its fold. So perhaps […]
It’s been an interesting few months for Zend, the commercial company behind the open source programming language PHP.
In the past few weeks, Zend has teamed up with Rackspace, a leading web hosting provider. It’s also signed an agreement with Ibuildings, an Anglo-Dutch software consultancy company, to provide training and support services in the UK. And […]
24 February 2008 – 5:43 PM
University computer science departments are rapidly becoming Microsoft-free zones, as Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) combine with Java to become the de-facto standard environment for students of programming.
Microsoft knows from history that this will be fatal in the long term, hence its decision to extend free availability of core development tools to students. Most […]
25 January 2008 – 2:05 PM
Sun has pushed out a major update to its Java software package that features scores of bug fixes, including a number of security updates.
Java 6 Update 4 includes a hefty 370 bug fixes (as explained here). Most of these are minor tweaks to improve performance or application glitches, but some are more notable as they […]
17 January 2008 – 1:27 PM
Learn a real language
The choice of Java as a first programming language in computer science courses is undermining good programming practice, according to two leading academics.
In a withering attack on those responsible for setting the curriculum for computer science courses, doctors Robert Dewar and Edmond Schonberg of New York University (and principals of Ada language […]
The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language — it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby and Python, with PHP to follow shortly.
We sat down with Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, and discussed Java’s move into scripting language interpretation in the first half of a two […]
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