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AWS: Here's why we are investing in the Rust programming language

AWS engineers explain why developers should build infrastructure software on Rust.

February 21, 2022 by Liam Tung

How Women Who Code is narrowing the developer gender gap

The non-profit organization aims to help women to pursue their developer skills and career paths.

March 1, 2022 by Allison Murray

Calling wait, notify, and notifyAll within a non-synchronized method

You may be used to seeing the wait(), notify(), and notifyAll() methods called within synchronized methods. But here's a subtlety that you may not know: The caller of the wait(), notify(), and notifyAll() methods is required to own the monitor for which it's invoking these methods. This point sometimes goes unnoticed because programmers are used to calling these methods from within synchronized methods.

May 5, 2005 by David Petersheim

Programming languages: Python could soon overtake C and Java as most popular

Python is battling for pole position, but Rust and TypeScript have made notable gains in popularity over the past year.

July 6, 2021 by Liam Tung

U.S. Daylight Saving time shift poses a risk for IT

A change federal Energy Policy Act of 2005, which moved the start of Daylight Saving Time back from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March and moved up the return of standard time to the first Sunday in November, to conserve on energy use might have echoes of the Y2k problem, Computerworld reports in an article, "Daylight Saving Time: When clocks spring forward this year, will IT fall down?

February 2, 2007 by Dan Farber

SAP sheds light on 'enterprise in a box' strategy

ERP specialist has given more details on the plans behind its upcoming A1S business and product suite aimed at medium-sized companies

July 19, 2007 by Andrew Donoghue

Analyst: IT departments are sabotaging SOA

Here's a switch: businesspeople get SOA, but IT fails to see its full potential

May 14, 2007 by Joe McKendrick

SAP aims to lighten up

Keen to dispel the image of SAP as a dull but worthy company, the new UK boss wants to help the software maker become a little more feisty

June 11, 2007 by Colin Barker

Kingston flash hard drives, DDR3 on the way

Kingston Technology expects to bring a flash hard drive to market by early 2008.

May 17, 2007 by Luke Anderson

Standards effort could improve USB flash drives

U3 project envisions better USB flash drives in new applications for productivity, gaming and even health care.

January 7, 2005 by John G. Spooner