Anyone who has followed software development tools during the last decade knows that the term “Java” refers to a pair of technologies: the Java programming language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

In today's financial markets, the developers and programmers are the soldiers on the front lines executing the orders of traders, portfolio managers, CIOs and CEOs. In the ranks of IT, the language ...

I recently returned from JavaOne 2005 in San Francisco. The show was impressive for a number of reasons. The attendance seemed to be about 30% larger than last year's. The same could be said for the ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

A new year begins, and a new page opens for software development. Companies worldwide have seen how a technological tool—be it a mobile application or a website—became their best ally when it comes to ...

Scripting languages have been around pretty much since operating systems were built to stay resident-back to DOS JCL, and no I don’t mean that DOS. I mean the Disk Operating System for the IBM 360. OS ...

The wave of WordPress and Drupal vulnerability warnings and patches over the past couple of years, as well as the never-ending discovery of SQL injection bugs in Web applications, can actually be ...

Microsoft's C# has always been popular language thanks to .NET developers, but this year it has seen something of a surge in popularity. Tiobe Software CEO Paul Jansen says C# is "by far the most ...

For some reason, I’m often asked this question: is scripting programming or just systems administration? Oddly enough, we briefly addressed this within the firstPowerShell Unleashed book. But, because ...