A surefire way to ignite a Web flame war is to say one programming language is better than another. James Gosling, known the "father of Java," understands that as well as anybody. In a recent blog, ...

For various reasons, Java applets have never worked all that well but we some folks use them anyway, for example in business charting and other graphic visualizations. Over the past few years ...

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the tech landscape, developers are increasingly faced with the task of selecting which programming languages are the most beneficial and effective in ...

Cell phones using Sun Microsystems' Java software have finally begun shipping, but the real payoff is expected when phones begin using special Java chips to improve performance. Stephen Shankland ...

The decision of which technology stack to use for a new mobile application is one of the most critical choices a business ...

Oracle has already made some changes to Java and is working on new initiatives to improve security, Nandini Ramani, head of Java development at Oracle, wrote in a blog post on Friday. After a series ...

There was a time when TheServerSide.com was a site primarily focused on Java development, and for those wishing to do .NET development, there was TheServerSide.net as well. But the server-side ...

As one of the most popular and bestselling games ever made, Minecraft has something that can appeal to just about everyone. The game can be a virtual Lego set for one person, a tool to create complex ...

Multithreaded programming is challenging but unavoidable, which is why you need the best tools and techniques for doing it safely. In this article Theodore S. Norvell introduces the conceptual ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...