With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how to use the new component architecture in Flex 4 to create custom skins for standard UI components.

Sean Landis, author of Agile Hiring, lists ten ways an employer can screw up an on-site interview.

In the first of a series of articles on the latest Scala release, Scala 2.8, Martin Odersky discusses the new collections API.

With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how the new graphics primitives in Flex 4 use linear gradients to get a richer look.

It's been taking forever to open-source Java. Oracle's lawsuit with Google makes me wonder if it's ever going to happen.

Today Artima released the final version of Flex 4 Fun in PDF form. The paper book is in production at the printer and will be available in early September.

This week Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google alleging infringement of Java-related patents and copyrights in Android.

With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how the new graphics primitives in Flex 4 use fills to achieve different rendering effects for the shapes.

With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how the new graphics primitives in Flex 4 use strokes to achieve different rendering effects for their outlines.

Removing the hype around the multicore (non) revolution and some (hopefully) sensible comment about threads ad other forms of concurrency.

With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how to use Flex transitions to animate changes in application state to help the user stay connected to the application experience.

Sean Landis, author of Agile Hiring, discusses why he thinks sloppy résumés should not be tolerated.

In which I argue that (a) Generics have done egregious harm to both the elegance and readability of the Java language and, (b) they prove by example that static type checking is a linguistic dead-end. Are you persuaded? Do you agree? Read on...

Following over a year of development and many interim snapshots, Scala 2.8 Final was released today. The latest version of the statically typed JVM language sports many new features, such as a redesigned collections library, significantly enhanced Actors, support for continuations, type specialization, and a host of other capabilities.

With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how Flex 4 enables a new, declarative model of drawing custom graphics objects in Flex code.

Sean Landis, author of Agile Hiring, describes why he thinks hiring should be considered a core competence of software organizations and an important skill for software professionals.