Programming Languages

Agile vs Waterfall at SD West 2009

Agilist Scott Ambler defends the Waterfall and loses -- on purpose

The long-running Sun-Apache dispute

Compiling Ruby to Java Types

Write your own Twitter application

Archive your tweets with Apache Commons HttpClient, dom4j, and iText

Grails amps performance, thanks to Groovy 1.6

Groovy 1.6 brings compilation and runtime boosts home to Grails 1.1

Microsoft confirms IE8 kill switch in Windows 7

Microsoft acknowledges that Windows 7 will include an expanded list of features and integrated applications that can be removed from the OS

Java concurrency with thread gates

Manage concurrent thread execution in complex business applications

Data Buckets

Building cloud-ready, multicore-friendly applications, Part 1: Design principles

Prepare your applications for the future of distributed computing

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