June 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Java, the language that helped define modern enterprise computing. If you had told me in 1995 that devs would still be writing and shipping production code in ...

If you haven't seen the latest Java developer productivity report from Perforce, you should check it out. Written by Perforce CTO Rod Cope and developer tools exec Jeff Michael, the "2025 Java ...

I haven't reported on the TIOBE Index in a while, but that headline is a real attention grabber. Since 2001, TIOBE Software has published the results of its monthly search for the languages in which ...

Oracle announced the general availability of JDK 23 this week, a feature release with enhanced capabilities focused on cloud-native applications, enterprise performance, and the growing demands of AI.

You might’ve missed it amid the spectacle of Gemini demos and AI ethics panels, but Google quietly rewired the front end of the web at its annual I/O conference—and it’s worth your attention. Not just ...

I read a lot of industry reports based on surveys of one group or another, mostly developers, but it's not often I lay my eyes on one that makes me laugh and shudder at the same time. Here's the funny ...

Open-source Java platform provider Azul just announced the winners of its first-ever Azul Java Hero Awards, which recognizes exceptional achievements in Java deployments worldwide. The company named ...

The upcoming Visual Studio Live 2-Day Hands-On Training Seminar (June 5-6, online), organized by the hard-working folks at 1105 Media (my boss) promises to be a killer opportunity for developers to ...

When I first began using the term "prompt engineering" last year, I thought the eye rolling would knock the planet off its axis. I got a similar reaction a dozen years earlier when I proposed writing ...

Organizers of the fifth annual Call for Code Global Challenge have launched their annual invitation to software developers from around the world to create open-source solutions that accelerate ...

If you’re a developer who’s been playing musical chairs with foundation models, shelling out tokens to test capabilities across GPTs, Claude, Gemini, and more, Amazon has a new proposition: Stop ...

It has been said that coding can sometimes feel like trying to explain quantum physics to a cat. If any dev tool maker understands this, it's JetBrains, which is no doubt why they’ve supercharged ...