Java Leads Again; VB in Massive Decline

March 6th, 2006 Here are the top ten Java lies I have heard over the years. Feel free to add yours in the comments.

September 4th, 2006 Joel Spolsky was asked four important questions on enterprise development. Joel didn't offer a clear answer on some of them.

February 8th, 2006 Java is the No. 1 language on planet earth, high performing and very easy to use.

October 11th, 2005 In the VSLive Conference in Orlando, BJ Holtgrewe, Senior Production Manager for Visual Studio made some outrageous claims like: Holtgrewe's chat was also peppered with competitive messages, noting that U.S. DevTracker found that 53 percent of software development is being done on .NET these days, leaving Java scrambling for the remainder of the pie.

December 25th, 2004 I have put a new blog which lists hot jobs postings associated with software & bioinformatics industry, job leads available by word-of-mouth, mailings lists of alumni associations, java architects, java user groups, vc mailings lists etc. In other words postings, often for high profile jobs, which are normally accessible to inner circle only.

July 7th, 2006 Google has passed Microsoft in popularity since beginning of 2005. What is even more surprising is their rate of growth and slow decline of Microsoft.

December 16th, 2005 It has become a fulltime jobs of some morons to reverse hype Java for several years now. First it was "Java is slow" myth which was perpetuated.

March 15th, 2005 J2SE stands for Java 2 Standard Edition. The 2 stands for version 2 of the platform.

August 23rd, 2008 First tell me what is the best way to concatenate large number of String objects? Is it a + b? Most Java developers know not to use a + b (+ operator) because of huge performance problems, they use StringBuffer instead. In fact I did some tests in the past which confirms this folklore.

February 17th, 2006 Java SE 6 Beta offers the first feature complete version of next major release of the Java SE platform. Sun expects to ship the final release of Java SE 6 in the fall of 2006.

September 8th, 2005 GMail API for Java GMailer API for Java (g4j) is set of API that allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail. With G4J programmers can made Java based application that based on huge storage of GMail.

May 7th, 2008 Sun revealed the following statistics about Java at JavaOne 2008: 1. 90% of Personal Computers on Internet have Java 2.

February 16th, 2004 Few Gripes on Java.blogs: After few days with java.blogs I realized I don't want a few things. For example I am not interested in knowing anything about IDEA releases.

May 6th, 2008 The key features of Java EE 6 (Java Enterprise Edition version 6) are: Modular Platform - Java EE 6 introduces profiles targeted for particular segment of users like web developers or mobile developers. Java Profiles allows you to select Java EE 6 features to be included in a profile.

December 11th, 2005 I want to create a list of Java blogger's in India or of Indian origin. If you are one please state so with your url in the comment below.