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December 2015 Blog Posts (4)
Hadoop and big data - believe the hype?
What do you think? True or hype, in your experience?
Added by Michael Levin on December 22, 2015 at 1:38pm — No Comments
Learning JavaScript?
If you're learning JavaScript or just interested in how it's moving along, this survey has some nuggets to glean like what the most popular tools are these days. Have a look: https://ponyfoo.com/articles/javascript-developer-survey-results
Added by Michael Levin on December 16, 2015 at 9:30pm — No Comments
new JUG Africa social group
The new JUG Africa social group is live! Check it out here: https://community.oracle.com/groups/jug-africa-social-group
http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/4640558532001
And more…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on December 7, 2015 at 10:30am — No Comments
Early-access build b95 of JDK 9 is available for download
Early-access builds of JDK 9 with Project Verona in b95 are
available for download here https://jdk9.java.net/download
The goal of this Project is to implement the new JDK version string as
described in JEP-223. http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223
The new version-string scheme is designed to easily distinguish major,
minor, and security-update… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on December 7, 2015 at 10:30am — No Comments
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