• Internet Explorer 9 Beta is Due in September

    Updated: 2010-07-31 16:18:25
    According to Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, Microsoft is getting ready to roll out IE version 9 in September. As per some leaked report, Microsoft is expected to release the Beta version in August. The Beta is supposed to feature more user interfaces. The Web Developers are keenly waiting for the new browser. .... Source article   Internet Explorer 9 Beta is Due in September.

  • Daily Dose - Clojure 1.2 Moves Quickly Towards GA

    Updated: 2010-07-31 05:00:39
    Project committer Stuart Halloway just announced the launch of the first release candidate for Clojure 1.2.  Although there have been few changes between this release and the last, the news is significant because the first beta of Clojure 1.2 went live only two weeks ago.  They only had one beta release and they may only have one release candidate as well.  Expect the GA very soon.JBoss...

  • Functional Programming Concepts in JDK 7

    Updated: 2010-07-31 01:00:37
    There's much excitement about JDK 7 and in particular Lambdas! I've waded through the bloat to help you get an understanding of it. If you search for JDK 7 in your favourite search engine the chances are you'll hit the controversies surrounding lambadas in Java fairly early on in your hunt. It's a contentious subject, which means it's getting a lot of attention from a lot of clever people,...

  • WAC Details Plan For Mobile Devs

    Updated: 2010-07-30 20:20:03
    The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications companies focused on building an open application platform, have announced its formation as a corporation. The company has also announced it will partner with Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), accelerating the commercial launch of WAC-enabled application stores. The transaction is set to be completed in September 2010. WAC [...]

  • Do you think Oracle will kill Java?

    Updated: 2010-07-30 17:31:23
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  • Why Scala’s “Option” and Haskell’s “Maybe” Types Won’t Save You From Null

    Updated: 2010-07-30 08:17:08
    The more I think about it, the less I understand the point in Scala’s Option class (which originated in Haskell under the name Maybe). If you read the voluminous material that describes the concepts behind the Option class, there are two main benefits: It saves you from NullPointerException It allows you to tell whether null means “no object” or “an object whose value is null” I claim...

  • Microsoft CEO promises iPad will have Windows-based competitors, but they’re not ready yet

    Updated: 2010-07-30 01:29:50
    more images more images Ballmer: Tablet coming 'as soon as we can' REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft will compete with Apple's iPad, but it isn't saying when. Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer says the company is working with Intel Corp. and computer makers to perfect tablet touch-screen computers. Analysts attending an annual meeting at Microsoft headquarters on Thursday got few concrete ... Read more : Microsoft CEO promises iPad will have Windows-based competitors, but they’re not ready yet.

  • Justice Department suing Oracle for fraud over software contracts

    Updated: 2010-07-30 01:29:49
    more images more images more images US suing Oracle over software contracts NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department says it is suing Oracle for fraud over software contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The agency says Oracle Corp. failed to offer government customers the same discounts on its software that it offered commerical customers, as it was required ... Read more .

  • Solid Documents Releases New SDK

    Updated: 2010-07-29 20:57:41
    Solid Documents, a developer of document reconstruction software, has introduced its latest release of its Solid Framework.Net Software Development Kit (SDK). Version 7.0 gives developers more flexibility in developing applications with the SDK. It includes tools, documentation and samples developers can reference to write, build, test and deploy .NET Framework applications. It is also designed to improve [...]

  • IntelliJ IDEA X Early Release - Major Spring, Groovy, and Maven Upgrades

    Updated: 2010-07-29 16:30:22
    The release of IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 last year brought a flurry of extra excitement with JetBrains' announcement that there would also be a FOSS Community Edition with the release.  Although there's no major announcements on the open source front, the next release of IntelliJ IDEA looks like its going to raise the bar for the major IDEs.  

  • The cost of object orientation: an update

    Updated: 2010-07-09 21:35:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar Javamex News and Development Announcements and comments relating to the Javamex site , containing Java programming . resources Friday , July 9, 2010 The cost of object orientation : an update Back in March , an article was added to the site on the performance cost of object orientation which showed that on a test system , hand-cranking computationally expensive complex number calculations to avoid the use of encapsulating objects gave a notable performance benefit . The results also showed , however , that the benefit of using mutable objects was . limited In some work I've been doing more recently on a wider range of test machines and versions of Hotspot , at appears that this effect is not universal : on at least some systems , there is a benefit from

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