Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

NEW YORK--Sun Microsystems has released a version of Java for small gadgets using the Linux operating system, the company said Wednesday. Sun (sunw) has a lukewarm attitude about the Linux operating ...

When I ran into Slava Pestov, the core developer of Jedit, on IRC, I asked him what he thought of some of the increasingly popular Java-based integrated development environments (IDE) such as Eclipse ...

A complete Sun Java stack, including Java SE 6, GlassFish, JavaDB, and NetBeans, is now available with the latest release of Ubuntu v7.04 (Feisty Fawn). Users can find it in the "multiverse" ...

Linux developer Red Hat is aligning with Sun Microsystems on open-source Java development, announcing Monday that it has signed Sun's OpenJDK license agreement and will contribute to the open Java ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...