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Mitch Pronschinske04/30/13
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Java EE 7 Approved!

Java EE 7 is officially done as of this week. Linda DeMichiel just announced on the Oracle blog that the Java EE 7 Platform JSR, as well as the more compact Web Profile JSR for this EE version, have both been approved by the Java Community Process.

Mitch Pronschinske04/11/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/12)

A node v. php v. go benchmarking session and some cool CSS and Mac tools make up this link list. Plus GitHub turns 5 and we get a demo of quantum levitation.

Mitch Pronschinske02/26/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/26/13)

Prepare for a deep, and critical performance review of Chrome along with some highly helpful principles for keeping your software simple. Plus, a huge Azure outage, another Linus Torvalds freakout, and a workplace with no bosses.

Mitch Pronschinske02/05/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/5/13)

A bunch of lecture videos just dropped for the programming languages course at Brown University. You'll also want to check out a new tool for changing website backrounds at will. Plus, you'll hear about a powerful new JS heatmap tool, the new release of Gradle, and more.

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/13
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Spring 4.0 Looking to JEE 7 and Java 8. Will They Keep Their Edge?

Today we learned that Spring is making a major step in the next iteration of their core framework. SpringSource expects to reach the first milestone for 4.0 in April, with the GA scheduled for the end of the year.

Mitch Pronschinske11/05/12
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We Need a Programmer for President

Today, I'm going to present a new presidential candidate... A software developer candidate. This candidate is going to address the issues that the IT world cares about. Will you support them?

Mitch Pronschinske09/26/12
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Connect With DZone at JavaOne 2012!

This is our call to all DZone community members who will be attending the conference next week! Please get in touch with us and let's make plans to meet and talk.

Mitch Pronschinske08/30/12
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Poll: Are We Polyglot Programmers?

So how many in the developer ranks have already taken the initiative (or been forced) to learn multiple programming languages and use them to create non-trivial applications? That's what you're about to find out when you finish this poll.

Mitch Pronschinske07/01/12
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Take the HTML5 Poll, Win a DZone Swag Pack!

Are you interested in finding out which HTML5 specs and other emerging web standards are being implemented in todays websites? Interested in seeing if developers are converting many Flash web components to HTML5? You'll get the answer to these and many other questions by answering 11 easy questions in our HTML5 Zone survey.

Mitch Pronschinske06/22/12
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Poll: Which Programming Language Needs to Die?

Pretty simple question. Which programming language do you think is bad for the developer community while it's still being used? Or which language do you think has stuck around in the industry for too long?

Mitch Pronschinske06/08/12
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Poll: Do You Consider Groovy "Production Ready"?

We recently got a post on Javalobby from a new contributor, Pavel Bernshtam.  He wrote an explanation of why he thinks Groovy is a "Better Java".  I was initially going to see how everyone on JL felt about...

Mitch Pronschinske05/29/12
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DZone 2012 Community Survey - Gift Cards up for Grabs!

Each year we like to pick your brain to help us make things even better at DZone, and in return we are offering up one $100 and two $50 Amazon gift cards to randomly selected DZone members who respond to our annual survey.

Mitch Pronschinske03/13/12
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Netflix's "Priam": Improving Cassandra Usability

URL:  http://cloud.dzone.com/articles/netflix-announces-priam?mz=36885-nosql Large Thumbnail:  Screen shot 2012-03-13 at 2.11.32 PM.png ...

Mitch Pronschinske03/13/12
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Scaling Solr with SolrCloud, Hadoop and Behemoth

URL:  http://java.dzone.com/articles/scaling-solr-indexing?mz=33057-solr_lucene# Large Thumbnail:  Screen shot 2012-03-13 at 1.48.10 PM.png ...

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Using Solr Cloud, For Real!

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