Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android. (more…)

About a month ago, I had the pleasure of taking a tutorial led by the fantastic Brendan Gregg on creating FlameGraphs using the Linux perf toolset. I recommend reading his many blog posts on the subject, but in short: while perf is an excellent resource f...

nudge4j is a piece of java code to let you hack your JVM from the browser. (more…)

I was recently pointed to Gartner’s Market Guide to Application Platforms report, written by Anne Thomas and Aasish Gupta. The report takes a very negative view of Java EE to the point that I thoug…...

Change color for Groovy Language Current: #e69f56 Proposed: #4298b8 From the Groovy logo on the groovy website: https://github.com/apache/groovy-website/blob/f51c26b05f90edc05873a2a1ec676a8f58fe4f7... (more…)