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Play 1 vs Play 2 Framework

| May 14, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , ,

Today’s guest post comes to you from our friend and user, Dane Marcelo, JArchitect product manager. He points out some interesting differences between the Play 1 and the Play 2 frameworks. So, let’s dive into this great post! Play is an open source web application framework, written in Scala and Java, which follows the model–view–controller…

Functional programming in Java? (Guest post)

| April 15, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by Johan Noren at MacGyver Development. After more toying with Scala on my spare time while hacking Java in office hours I miss out on using all these functional idioms in my Java programs. So with Java 8 coming closer I got interested in how the JDK team is planning…

Poll: Your Additional Programming Languages

| January 25, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , ,

Computer code is very similar to spoken language. So it’s not a surprise that just like with spoken languages there exist programming polyglots. It’s known that the most of the audience of our blog mark out Java as their main language. Let’s see now what languages are also “fluently” used. What additional programming languages do…

The second coming of Java

| December 11, 2012 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by Robert X. Cringely at I, Cringely blog last year. Has this prediction come true? What do you think? Share your opinion with us! There’s a continuous revolution taking place in web development as platforms and tools evolved first to handle dynamic pages and now cloud services. But sometimes what…

Ranking the Programming Languages

| August 30, 2012 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As you probably know Jelastic is an international company, American-Ukrainian-Russian to be exact. Recently I found very interesting post by Ruslan Shevchenko on one of the most popular Ukrainian tech blogs DOU. It’s very detailed stats on programming languages popularity among Ukrainian developers according to different parameters. So, let’s dive into this great post! Brief…

Death by boilerplate: Iterating over lines in a file in Java (vs Scala, Ruby, Groovy)

| June 18, 2012 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , ,

This post comes to us from the Code General. It’s a good read and points to some issues that we hope to see resolved when JDK 8 is rolled out. How to iterate over lines in a file in Java, Scala, Ruby and Groovy Iterating over the lines of a small text file is a…

The Jelastic Spotlight: My Hometown Video

| June 8, 2012 | Case Studies | , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Jelastic Client and Application Spotlight – June 8, 2012 This week’s Jelastic Spotlight comes to you from beautiful Massachusetts, USA. We are chatting with Christopher Wong and learning a bit about him and his application, HTV. Tell us a little about yourself, Christopher. Well, I’m based in Arlington, MA. My day job is working…

The Jelastic Newsletter – May 16, 2012

| May 16, 2012 | News | , , , , , , , , , , ,

How fast are JVM-based languages growing, Deploying ColdFusion Railo and Public IPs in Jelastic. . . The Jelastic newsletter is a weekly round-up of news, how-to’s and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week: How fast are JVM-based languages growing among developers? As more and more programming languages come onto the scene, it can be…

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