Development Tools

GitHub rolls out the red carpet for scientists

Scientists have started to use GitHub for their own purposes beyond just development -- a trend GitHub is fostering with improvements like DOIs for software to make it citable

Hortonworks snaps up and open sources Hadoop security solution

Salesforce.com ties Force.com to Heroku for richer app development

How Joyent debugs Node code

Joyent's built-in DTrace technology lets an application's execution be profiled at runtime

One now, two later: Groovy updates add Java 8 support

Groovy 2.3 is officially compatible with JDK 8, but lambda expression aren't due till Groovy 3.0

Oracle wins, Google loses in copyright ruling on Java APIs

An appeals court sided with Oracle and ordered the companies back to court

GitHub releases free and open Atom code editor

This 21st-century Emacs uses Chromium for display and is powered by Node.js

A case for keeping primitives in Java

Primitives are essential for applications dominated by numerical calculations

GitHub releases free and open Atom code editor

The standalone code editor powered by JavaScript and Chromium is available for free under the MIT license

Hadoop, Python, and NoSQL lead the pack for big data jobs

Rise in cloud-based analytics could increase demand for employees with more diversified skill sets