Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products.
Robert McMillan
,
November 2009
Apple lets iPhone developers track App Store progress
Apple may be feeling the Android heat. The company has changed the way it deals with iPhone app developers letting them now
keep closer tabs on how their software is proceeding through Apple's strict App Store review process. Many see the move as
yet another step by Apple to keep app store developers from defecting to competing mobile platforms -- namely Android.
Jacqueline Emigh,
November 2009
RIM extends BlackBerry app development to Web developers
Research In Motion (RIM) will preview on Tuesday technologies enabling application builders to use Web development skills
to build programs for the company's BlackBerry smartphone.
Paul Krill,
October 2009
Harness Offsprings to divide, parallelize and conquer
Reinventing the wheel over and over again can be fun, but you are probably going to end up with squeaky ones that fall off
the axle. When developers address the scalability and performance of their applications, they often reinvent a solution where
each request is split into batches which are processed concurrently and merged for delivery to the client.
Edward Salatovka, Neal Lester,
August 2009
The 5 Static Code Audits every developer should know and use
In today’s competitive market and economy, developers need every tool they can get to increase productivity, reduce cost and
lower maintenance while ensuring proper execution in production. One of the more under utilized developer tools is static
software audits.
Mike Rozlog,
July 2009
Java yields to other languages on the Java Virtual Machine
Move over, Java. There's more to the Java Virtual Machine than just the Java language these days -- and the field of languages
for JVM is growing.
Paul Krill,
July 2009
Will Oracle kill the Java community?
Will Oracle be good to Java's developers?
Robert McMillan
,
June 2009
Sun tests new Java Store, Java Warehouse
Sun has opened up a test version of its Java Store, which it bills as a Web site where developers can connect with millions
of computer users who run Java on their desktop.
Robert McMillan
,
June 2009
Close the Java security hole in many browsers
As we noted earlier, there's a rather large security hole with Java in Web browsers in all versions of OS X. Because of the
way Java applets work, you can be attacked by simply visiting (not even clicking a link on, or downloading a file from) a
Web site containing a malicious Java applet.
Rob Griffiths,
May 2009
Microsoft to give its first JavaOne keynote
Here's a first: Microsoft will be giving a keynote address at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco next month.
Robert McMillan
,
May 2009
Security experts: No Java fix in OS X leaves Macs vulnerable
Last week's sizable Mac OS X 10.5.7 update, which included 20 bug fixes as well as a number of security updates, failed to
fix a critical Java flaw security experts have warned.
Nick Spence,
May 2009
Apple lags on Java security fix in OS X
While Apple's safety record is pretty good--that is to say the actual number of security breaches on the platform is small--it
still has some work to do in terms of its reputation for security. The company is often close-mouthed about its process for
dealing with security fixes, and though it does issue updates throughout the year, vulnerabilities sometimes go unpatched
for months at a time.
Dan Moren,
May 2009
Angered by Apple delay, hacker posts Mac Java attack
In an effort to draw attention to an long-standing security problem in Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a security researcher
has posted attack code that exploits the flaw.
Robert McMillan
,
May 2009
Clojure: Challenge your Java assumptions
Clojure's immutable datatypes, lockless concurrency, and simple abstractions make parallel programming for multicore hardware
simpler and more robust than in Java. Joshua Fox takes you on a tour of this exciting new language for the JVM, which was
just recently released in v1.0.
Joshua Fox,
May 2009
Lean service architectures with Java EE 6
Thanks to Java EE 6's simplified development model, a few interfaces and annotated classes are all you need to implement the
facade, the service, and the domain structure that constitute a lean service-oriented architecture. Surprised? Read on.
Adam Bien,
April 2009