Programming Languages

Review: 3 toolkits tame mobile app development

How Adobe PhoneGap, AppGyver Steroids, and Telerik Icenium work around native limitations

Java’s insecurity has doomed it on the desktop

Latest round of patches addresses mostly client-side vulnerabilities

Too Many Parameters in Java Methods, Part 5: Method Naming

Java’s insecurity has doomed it on the desktop

The latest round of patches for Java comes far too late to rescue its damaged reputation as a desktop presence

Hadoop 2: Big data’s big leap forward

Hadoop 2.0 reinvents its approach to job processing with YARN

SSH & Vagrant

Oracle plugs severe security holes that put systems at hijack risk

The company patched vulnerabilities affecting Java, its databases, enterprise applications, and middleware

Review: 3 PhoneGap toolkits tame mobile app development

Adobe PhoneGap, AppGyver Steroids, and Telerik Icenium simplify app development, but shine brightest at debugging and app distribution

Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

San Francisco startup Famo.us builds a more dynamic runtime for JavaScript applications

Continuous delivery revs up software updates

Company wide buy-in is needed in order to automate software delivery