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5 pioneering paths for software development's new frontier

2013-05-13T00:00:00Z

Modern software development requires a nimble approach -- which means mixing methodologies and hiring cross-functional coders, for a start. Find out how forward-thinking developers are beating out the old-guard in emerging app markets.

The 14 characters you meet as a coder

2013-05-09T00:00:00Z

Are you a Developer Diva? Perhaps a Holy Priest of technology? Or maybe you're the Hipster Hacker from Hell? See if you can spot your own worst enemy in any of these 14 software developer personality archetypes.

Open source Java projects: Akka

2013-05-08T00:00:00Z

Get started with Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model message-passing paradigm. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Steven Haines presents a simple program that showcases the Akka message passing system, then develops a more complex program using concurrent processes to compute prime numbers.

Amazon adds to developer choices with JavaScript SDK for Web Services

2013-05-07T00:00:00Z

The SDK for Node.js can be used to build fast and scalable network applications for Amazon's cloud.

Mobile strategy? You need a business strategy

2013-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mobile technology is an enabler, not a goal. Start with your business goals and then see where mobile helps them.

CIOs like big data, just not in the cloud

2013-05-04T00:00:00Z

Although cloud providers like Amazon are linking big data with the public cloud, enterprises rightfully don't see it that way -- not yet.

Big movies, big data: Netflix embraces NoSQL in the cloud

2013-05-02T00:00:00Z

With billions of reads and writes daily, Netflix relies on NoSQL database Cassandra to replace a legacy Oracle deployment.

Java EE 7 moves forward

2013-05-01T00:00:00Z

The next version of enterprise Java has received executive approval in the Java Community Process and a reference implementation is due soon, Oracle says.

Java tip: Orthogonality by example

2013-05-01T00:00:00Z

Orthogonality is a concept often used to describe modular and maintainable software, but it's also a design principle found (and broken) in some of our most popular Java utilities. With this short article you'll wrap your head around orthogonality once and for all -- by seeing how it is implemented, and violated, in Log4j. Workarounds are also discussed.

Survey: Control and security of corporate open source projects proves difficult

2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

A recent survey by Sonatype found widespread use of open source -- with 80 percent of a typical Java application assembled from open-source components -- but a lack of corporate standards governing usage.