Programming Languages

Java scam: How Oracle and Ask profit from sneaky add-ons

Oracle's Java security updates come loaded with foistware

The full Java life: Interview with Jim Showalter, principal engineer at Intuit

Coding server-side Java on the Quickbooks back end

Web services are dead — long live REST

How REST plus JSON over HTTP/HTTPS won the race on interoperability

Java scam: How Oracle and Ask profit from sneaky add-ons

Every time users update Java, traps in the program try to trick them into installing useless toolbars and add-ons

Web services are dead — long live REST

Once, an endless parade of Web service protocols promised to guarantee any system could talk to any other. In the end, we got much of that interoperability via simpler means

On the Dark Side of “Craftsmanship”

10gen CEO: Why we’re the NoSQL leader

MongoDB's inventor sounds off on RDBMS pain points and the future of NoSQL

Disabling Java in Internet Explorer: No easy task

Firefox, Chome, and Safari let you. But short of a complex, CERT-documented process, there's no reliable way to disable Java in IE

On Functional Programming in Java

Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11

The latest Java update is also vulnerable to sandbox bypass exploits, researchers from Security Explorations say