Programming Languages

Introduction to design patterns, Part 2: Gang-of-four classics revisited

Learn the Gang of Four design patterns in Java code, starting with Strategy and Visitor

2012: The year in quotes

Some of the most interesting, and amusing, tech-related quotes this year were uttered in courtrooms

2012: The year that coding became de rigueur

Should everyone in the IT shop know how to code?

Pushing Mongo GridFS files with Sinatra

Beyond Apple and Google: 2012’s key enterprise shifts

Reinvention was the theme for leading vendors in 2012

$5 E-books at Packt

Envoy (in Scala, JavaScript, and more)

Alfresco ECM takes open source content management to the Amazon cloud

Vendor support for Amazon Web Services is growing

9 app dev projects you should cancel in 2013

Rolling your own in software wastes both time and money

Java 8 on ARM: Oracle’s new shot against Android?

The preview Java 8 release for ARM also supports the little-adopted JavaFX on the very popular mobile chip