Programming Languages

Bit of a hiatus

Pervasive’s parallel development API paired with Hadoop MapReduce

DataRush 5.0, which helps developers without parallel development experience create multithreaded apps, also backs new JVM languages

Yahoo drops its own Hadoop distribution

The company instead will focus on Apache's version of the distributed computing platform

Groovy, JMX, and the Attach API

Groovy, JMX, and the Attach API

Escape the App Store: 4 ways to create smartphone Web apps

Proprietary, incompatible coding systems and app store controls can make mobile app dev too hard -- so try these HTML-oriented alternatives

Having the Last Word with Java and Groovy

Having the Last Word with Java and Groovy

HTML: The standard that failed?

HTML is officially whatever the top browser vendors say it is at the moment. You call that a standard?

HTML: The standard that failed?

HTML is officially whatever the top browser vendors say it is at the moment. You call that a standard?