Man, I can remember pumping in some serious time into the original Half-Life - it absorbed my life before, during, and after school at the time (I was 13 when it was released). Seeing it in the beyond ...

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Java has had plenty of bad press in recent years because of security issues. The upcoming release of Java has already been delayed, which was schedule to release September last year. But Java ...

The presentation “Project Lambda: To Multicore and Beyond” (Session 27400 and not to be confused with Brian Goetz’s presentation of the same name) was given in the Hilton San Francisco Grand Ballroom ...

Amazon AWS Lambda’s premise is audacious: event-driven applications made of little more than pure functions in Python, Java, or Node.js. Iron.io, creator of a task-queuing platform that runs across ...

"Java is back," Mark Reinhold, chief architect in Oracle's platform group, told attendees at this year's JavaOne conference Sunday. Reinhold led the technical keynote that has become a regular part of ...

As March 18, the final release date of the Java Developer Kit 8 (JDK8), approaches, the Java community could hardly be faulted for holding its collective breath. After all, the release date has been ...