The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

Following a number of reports of new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java browser plug-in, Oracle has today released an emergency update to Java 7 as Apple updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_43. Today ...

Recently, some people were shocked-shocked I tell you-to discover that Google had looked at Java to help create Android's Dalvik and that Google kept its Android source code to itself and its closest ...

In the Los Angeles club scene of the 1960s, Sir Lady Java—a dancer, comedian and drag queen—was a two-shows-a-night fixture. “I loved the people that came to see me, it delighted me,” she says, ...

You wouldn't think that the implementation of GitHub would be all that hard. After all, the Git tool itself was developed with distributed collaboration in mind, and it comes with a variety of ...

Every programmer is familiar with a text editor either as part of an IDE or as a standalone tool. Often you must reedit source code you have recently closed. Rather than use the file chooser by first ...

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