The Java programming language / core Android frameworks
Test-driven development
Making calls to various APIs
Writing secure applications for business
Contributing to the design of applications
Researching new and rapidly-changing technologies and then implementing features to take advantage of them
Making judgement calls and being able to explain them
Venturing into unfamiliar territory and getting stuff done
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...if you think you're up to one of these tasks, …
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I ntroducing an online course for beginners that helps you get started with JRuby programming.
What's JRuby?
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby - " JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby programming language, being developed by the JRuby team. JRuby is tightly integrated with Java to allow the embedding of the interpreter into any Java application with full two-way access between the Java and the Ruby code."
Charles Nutter says -
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The processes view highlights the processes that are hogging up resources by memory or CPU. These are further dialed down to a specific time slice so you can dig into spikes at your peak usage times. Server Monitoring includes beautiful charting of usage metrics so you can see the peaks and valleys of your server resources. This data can also be viewed …
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…ways to build Java apps today. But Heroku is not limited to these frameworks. Heroku runs 100% open-standards Java, so you can run any Java application and use any framework. You can even use no framework at all, such as running stand-alone Java processes that are not web applications.
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The application is primarily implemented in the Java programming language, allowing for rapid prototyping and simple GUI development. The first incarnation of SynthBot works only with VSTi software synthesizers.
VSTi is ubiquitous in music production; working "only" with VSTi is like being "only" usable on any Unix or Unix-like OS. This is actually a very similar strategy to Archaeopteryx, in that it uses custom code to modify controls that are …
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…Handlebars, Backbone, Underscore, Sinatra, Clojure, Java, Hadoop, Cascalog. Highlight: "You don't need a database, you need a [expletive deleted] cache" So that's what we did, we traded our database for a cache.
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Want to run your apps on the JVM, but not a fan of the Java language? If you prefer dynamic languages, there are lots of available options. The most mature ones are JRuby and Groovy. If you are asking yourself, "Should I pick Groovy or JRuby", read this post and, hopefully, you will be able to make the decision. Read more...
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…Java community as it combines the strengths of the JVM and richness of the Java platform with the productivity benefits of modern frameworks like Rails.
Today the Grails team announced Grails 2.0 , the latest incarnation of the framework. It features numerous large improvements including an overhauled command line tool, faster and more reliable reloads, and static asset support. Details are covered in the What's New section of the Grails docs.
The release …
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NodeJ - Node.js compatible framework running atop the JVM so it has access to pure Java as well.
MRI's Method Caches - James Golick explains why you should care and what he's trying to do to improve things.
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…Java Development Kit ( JDK) 10 or after, a fundamental change is being discussed: making the Java language Object Oriented. This might see the introduction of a unified type system that turns everything into objects and means no more primitives.
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