There’s a conspiracy theory that Steve Jobs wants you to buy a new iPod every 12 months. That may or may not be the case, but if your iPod is hosed, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s time to put it out to pasture. Most iPods are user-fixable and you
Hotpatching a Java application allows you to fix arbitrary code-level problems in a running application without terminating that application. Here Jack Shirazi covers the basics of how to hotpatch a Java 6 application
I participated in the design and development of a couple of concurrency libraries for shared-memory multiprocessors long before such machines were popular. So when I started using java.util.concurrent I was already somewhat comfortable with the concepts.
"Cuidado com os burros motivados" Em Heróis de verdade, o escritor combate a supervalorização da aparência e diz que falta ao Brasil competência, e não auto-estima
How do people become professional programmers? Many people go the "traditional" path through a computer science or software engineering education and from there into professional programming work.
Is your Java-based application fully using the capabilities of the IBM eServer hardware it's running on? In this article, the author shows how to find out whether garbage collection, the task carried out by Java Virtual Machine in the background to reclai
Summary In this article, Scott Meyers shares his picks for the five most important non-book publications in the history of C++, along with why he chose them.