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Android apps for developers and IT pros
Programmers, tech support jockeys, system admins, and just about everyone else in the IT world -- they're just like the rest of us. They can prattle on about whether the Google Nexus One is a wonderful new phone or just a knockoff of the great iPhone. There are dozens of little enhancements, like a 5-megapixel camera with a real lens, that suggest Google and HTC collaborated to build something wonderful. There are also dozens of quirks that might lead a discerning UI expert to the conclusion that Apple did it first and continues to build a better device.
Peter Wayner, January 2010

Java: What does its future hold?
Fourteen years ago, a marketing genius at Sun Microsystems changed the name of a cross-platform experimental language from the very dependable-sounding "Oak" to the hyper-caffeinated moniker "Java," and proved once again why engineers are scared of the power that the marketing department can unleash when lightning strikes.
Peter Wayner, November 2009

JetBrains readies open source version of its Java IDE
JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview of a free, open source version of the IDE.
Paul Krill, October 2009

Oracle shows off sheer technology volume
An Oracle official at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference gave a glimpse into the volume of technologies coming out of the company. The company this week also detailed a host of software development-related product plans.
Paul Krill, October 2009

Ajax: Tools of the trade
Ajax has effectively launched a new era in JavaScript development, bringing with it a plethora of robust tools for the JavaScript programmer. Take a quick tour of the tools you could be using for JS development, debugging, testing, and more. You'll never code JavaScript in just a text editor again.
Nathaniel T. Schutta, May 2009

Domain-driven design with Java EE 6
When a Java EE application needs to implement type-specific behavior for domain objects, a procedural, service-oriented approach leads to unnecessary code and hard-to-maintain logic. Learn about Java EE's architectural flip-side: domain-driven design that lets you make the most of Java's object-oriented roots.
Adam Bien, 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

Know your Oracle application server
René van Wijk offers tips for troubleshooting incompatibilities between Oracle Web application servers and Java EE application components such as TopLink Essentials, Apache MyFaces Trinidad, Hibernate, and EJBs.
René van Wijk, May 2009

Building cloud-ready, multicore-friendly applications, Part 2: Mechanics of the cloud
What's all that airy stuff we're calling "the cloud"? Appistry's Guerry Semones explains the mechanics of how cloud platforms take your cloud-ready application code to the next level.
Guerry Semones, April 2009

Mastering Spring MVC
If you like the Spring Framework, you'll want to explore Spring MVC for Web development. With Steven Haines as your guide, learn where Spring MVC fits into the Java Web development landscape (including a little bit of Java history), then quickly get up to speed developing a Spring MVC application.
Steven Haines, April 2009

Oracle/Sun: The end of Java as we know it?
There's little doubt that Oracle will make money on Java, but the question for many in the Java developer community is how, and at what expense. SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson, Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich, and others express their views on the future of Java technology, the JCP, and the Java ecosystem as a whole. InfoWorld's Paul Krill reports.
Paul Krill, April 2009

Oracle's Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, Java
Oracle didn't agree to pay much more than IBM would have for Sun Microsystems, but it may have far more use for Sun's "application to disk" technology than IBM ever did. ComputerWorld's Patrick Thibodeau reports.
Patrick Thibodeau, April 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

Where did Sun go wrong?
Once a Silicon Valley star, Sun Microsystems has lost most of its shine in the decade since the dot-com bubble burst. Elizabeth Montalbano reports on the series of missteps that have led this great innovator to impasse.
Elizabeth Montalbano, April 2009

Writing good unit tests, Part 2: Follow your nose
Klaus Berg continues his investigation of the tools and best practices that facilitate programming with GUTs. Get tips for writing cleaner, more efficient assertions, handling checked and unchecked exceptions, and knowing when and how to refactor your test code. Examples are based on JUnit 3 and 4, TestNG, and Hamcrest.
Klaus P. Berg, April 2009

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