What do developers love most about Java? For many, it’s how it manages to be so reliable (think Toyota) while still able to handle everything from parallel graph analytics to bleeding-edge finance ...

Whether he’s pacing the keynote stage in stocking feet, or taking you through “A Dozen Cool Things in JVM Languages,” Venkat Subramaniam leaves you with a sense of exhilaration about computer ...

NEW YORK—“I am a failure-driven developer,” Nebrass Lamouchi says. “Every activity I did is based on a failure I had before.” For example, Lamouchi struggled to learn the Apache Shiro security ...

In this final article in the Creating DSLs in Java series, Venkat Subramaniam lets you see for yourself why JVM-compatible languages such as Scala, Groovy, and JRuby are better suited to creating ...

“The functional style of programming is very charming,” insists Venkat Subramaniam. “The code begins to read like the problem statement. We can relate to what the code is doing and we can quickly ...

You understand the basics of domain-specific languages and now you’re ready to begin creating and refining them for your projects. In this third article in his series Venkat Subramaniam shows you how ...

The value of a domain-specific language lies in how well it captures and expresses a particular professional jargon, which in turn depends on the related concerns of fluency and context. In this ...