Programming Languages

5 hot specialties for software developers

Want to escape the outsourcing axe? Today's IT trends are creating lucrative niches for ambitious developers

Programming Opa: Web development, reimagined

MLstate's Opa streamlines Web app development with a single language for client and server, but the bright promise is not without pitfalls

Book Review: JBoss AS 7: Configuration, Deployment, and Administration

Git gets equipped for the enterprise

AccuRev will release Kando, a connector that enables many of its own enterprise features to work with the Git open source version-control software

Google helps translate JavaScript to its Dart alternative

The company's JavaScript to Dart Synonym application maps common idioms

JavaFX 2 Presents the Quadratic Formula

Here’s how to solve America’s developer shortage

Employers say they can't find enough workers to staff IT jobs. Maybe they've been going about it all wrong

What JavaScript’s inventor really thinks about Google Dart

Brendan Eich says that Google's language is not likely to get browser support and that browsers probably would not be extended to support native code

Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs

Java EE/SEE and ME specifications would all be under one committee's auspices if the proposal is accepted

JavaFX 2.1: JavaFX 2’s @DefaultProperty Annotation