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Impression on Scala

I have been hearing quite a lot of good comments about the Scala programming language. I personally use Java extensively in the past and have switched to Ruby...

3 replies - 1309 views - 11/17/09 by riho in News

Google App Engine Spurs Python Growth

An Evans Data Corp survey shows a 45% increase in the usage of Python since Spring of 2008 - the same time Google's App Engine was announced.  The results...

3 replies - 353 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor?  Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card?  It drives eight monitors, each...

0 replies - 2718 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun.  Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five...

0 replies - 2923 views - 11/07/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well.  uSocial says companies...

0 replies - 2518 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

ScalaTest 1.0 Release "A Path Forward" to Scala

Scala has made a name for itself recently with the announcement in April that Twitter was in the process of converting their back-end from Ruby to Scala.  The...

0 replies - 2887 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

JetBrains MPS 1.0 Paints the Future of Software Development with a New Programming Paradigm

 Prague, Czech Republic, July 23, 2009 - JetBrains, creators of intelligent and innovative productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, have...

0 replies - 1694 views - 07/27/09 by Aslam Khan in Announcements

Sergey Dmitriev, JetBrains CEO on Language Oriented Programming and MPS

I recently had the chance to bounce a few questions off Sergey Dmitriev, founder and CEO of JetBrains.  Since he is an active promoter of language-oriented...

0 replies - 1656 views - 03/16/09 by Aslam Khan in Articles

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9354 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

Curry for Dummies

Introduction Functional programming concepts aren’t that hard but sometimes a little abstract. In this post I’ll try to demystify the concept of currying,...

0 replies - 1287 views - 08/18/08 by bdesmet in News

My Number 1 Java to Python Gotcha

Fredrik Lundh is almost certainly a benevolent alien in disguise, sent to Earth to help the pitiful human race drag itself up out of the muck.In a recent post,...

4 replies - 3249 views - 08/18/08 by olivstor in News