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More than one-third of professional Java developers surveyed by Perforce JRebel were using the eight-year-old version of Java for their main application.

Microsoft has finally announced the general availability of the latest Azure Sphere version 22.02 after it canceled Azure Sphere OS version 22.01 in January due to issues in the Retail Eval channel.

A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.

TypeScript 4.6, the new iteration of Microsoft’s strongly typed superset of JavaScript, is now available as a production release, with capabilities ranging from control flow analysis to improved recursion depth checks. The production release, published February 28, followed a release candidate published February 11 and a beta release offered on January 21. With control flow

Latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript also allows code in constructors before super(), improves recursion depth checks, and more.

An emerging set of vendors is trying to simplify the job of web development, again. Is this the next generation of platform as a service, or something completely different?

Back in the mid-2000s, the software industry and the venture capitalists funding software startups became interested in the idea of platform as a service (PaaS), promising a simple, one-stop-shop platform for software developers to take their ideas from source code to production. Despite the early success of some of these platforms—most notably Heroku, which is

I’ve been playing with GitHub Copilot, an IDE extensions that uses GitHub’s vast knowledge of how people code to suggest what you probably meant to type next. I’m running it through Visual Studio Code, but it also runs in JetBrains and Neovim.

Kaya Jones aspired to hone her computing skills the summer before beginning her college experience as a computer science major.

This post introduces the combination of Emacs and LSP, and how you can make your own editor “smarter” by using the same idea of communications between an editor client and multiple language servers.