In this article, which is based on Chapter 1 of the book, Programming in Scala, you'll get an overview of the Scala language and insights into its design.

Re-using developer knowledge is an important concern for many enterprises. In this interview with Artima, CodeGear's Jeff Anders talks about Application Factories, a feature of the new JBuilder 2008 IDE that facilitates knowledge sharing among developers.

Rich clients are more than just about user interfaces, argues Adobe's James Ward in this JavaOne 2008 interview with Artima. Rich clients are about architecture, and are also about collaboration between developers and designers.

In Artima's initial interview from JavaOne 2008, Patrick Curran, Chair of the Java Community Process, shares his vision for the JCP, and discusses how artisans and engineers differ in their approach to building software and in their attitude toward standards.

Adobe announced the Open Screen Project, promising to bring Flash-based multimedia to a wide variety of mobile devices. In an interview with Artima, Adobe's James Ward explains how the Open Screen Project can benefit Flex and enterprise developers.

An example of parallel programming using all the CPUs on your computer or cluster. Also shows how to add a Flex user interface.

In the latest installment of his IBM developerWorks series, Ted Neward explains the concept of traits in Scala.

ZeroTurnaround announced the availability of JavaRebel 1.1, a JVM plugin that enables reloading changes made to Java class files on-the-fly, saving developers the time it takes to redeploy an application or perform a container restart.

Sun's latest NetBeans release brings improved performance, faster startup, a preview of a PHP editor, JavaScript support, updates to the Ruby development environment, and extends integration of several Java frameworks.

A year after its official debut, Apple's Java 6 implementation is now available for Intel-based Macs. Was it worth the wait?

Donald Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming, and a pioneer in the analysis of algorithms, was interviewed by SD Times' Andrew Binstock. In the interview, Knuth shares his views on XP, unit testing, code reuse, multi-core architectures, and the future of software development.

A few days ago I was in the office of one of my clients, talking to the dev guys about Pantheios (what else?!), and they were asking why I do open-source. The resulting discussion was quite illuminating, not least to me, so I thought it might be useful to discuss it here and see why other people do it.

While syntax extensions may not add new functionality to a language, such extensions, or syntactic sugar, can make a language more suitable for specific problem domains, writes Debasish Ghosh in a recent blog post.

Working with XML is seldom associated with joy, but a language that has native support for XML can make working with XML documents a lot more fun, writes Michael Galpin in a recent IBM developerWorks article.

When Google introduced its AppEngine service, it announced that Python would be the service's first supported language. One of the most important Python Web frameworks that can easily be hosted on AppEngine is Django. Dan Ellis introduces Django in a recent article.