In this interview with Artima, Gil Tene, CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems, explains why Java applications typically use only a few gigabytes of memory, out of possibly tens of gigabytes available on commodity servers.

In a recent ACM Queue article, George Neville-Neil writes that the ubiquitous socket API, now almost 30 years old, has not kept up with recent progress in networks, and would need a major overhaul.

In a recent ACM Queue article, George Neville-Neil writes that the ubiquitous socket API, now almost 30 years old, has not kept up with recent progress in networks, and would need a major overhaul.

In a recent ACM Queue article, George Neville-Neil writes that the ubiquitous socket API, now almost 30 years old, has not kept up with recent progress in networks, and would need a major overhaul.

Clojure is a Lisp dialect for the JVM. Developed mainly by Rich Hickey, Clojure 1.0 was released this week. It supports functional programming, advanced concurrency constructs, such as software transactional memory, multimethods, and interoperability with Java classes and frameworks.

Clojure is a Lisp dialect for the JVM. Developed mainly by Rich Hickey, Clojure 1.0 was released this week. It supports functional programming, advanced concurrency constructs, such as software transactional memory, multimethods, and interoperability with Java classes and frameworks.

Clojure is a Lisp dialect for the JVM. Developed mainly by Rich Hickey, Clojure 1.0 was released this week. It supports functional programming, advanced concurrency constructs, such as software transactional memory, multimethods, and interoperability with Java classes and frameworks.

RubyMine 1.0 is a full-featured Ruby and Rails IDE from Jetbrains, the makers of IntelliJ IDEA. RubyMine supports refactoring of Ruby applications, code analysis and type inference, RSpec and Unit tests, and a feature-rich Ruby and Rails debugger.

The recently released version the Scala IDE for Eclipse uses a new integration technique with the development framework, making it easier to work on cross-language projects, such as those that combine Scala and Java.

In a recent blog post, Tony Arcieri, creator of the Reia language that runs on the Erlang VM, ponders why Scala implements two types of Actors, and wonders if all objects could be actors instead.

Thanks, James. We just fixed it.

This article series introduces five techniques to progressively enhance an existing enterprise Java application using Flex. Part I demonstrates a non-intrusive way to replace an HTML table with a high-performance Flex datagrid.

This article series introduces five techniques to progressively enhance an existing enterprise Java application using Flex. Part I demonstrates a non-intrusive way to replace an HTML table with a high-performance Flex datagrid.

Aptana Studio is an Eclipse-based IDE for Rails, Ruby, Python, and PHP development. A recent update integrates cloud-based development and deployment features with the IDE. In an interview with Artima, Aptana's Kevin Hakman, Sandip Chitale, and Kris Rasmussen explain how that integration benefits developers.

One problem I see with some comments here is that they ignore the notion of time and space: Decisions have to be made at a specific time and in a specific context. It's hard to point just one or two things out in these kinds of decisions: rather, the totality of the context must be taken into account. I also moved away from a Rails app to one...