Manipulating calendar dates is an essential aspect of many applications written in Java. Traditionally, developers relied on the java.util.Calendar class to get the ...

Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous. He’s wrong, and he’s way late to the party on this one–it’s coming to Java whether he likes it or not. Go read his ...

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

A team of computer scientists has developed a videogame called CodeSpells that teaches people how to code in Java. The game was tested on a group of 10- to 12-year-old girls who had never done any ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. All you need to do is open an online editor and code away! Which is exactly what we’re going to ...

Static analysis tools are in widespread use because they are effective at finding programming defects. They work by analyzing the source code of a program without executing it, so don’t require test ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...