In 1956, psychologist George Miller discovered that typical humans simultaneously comprehend a maximum of seven “chunks of information,” plus or minus two. His message has become a unifying theme ...

In any substantial software engineering project, the build tool is one of the most important parts of the developer’s toolkit. Without a solid build tool, the process of compiling, packaging, and ...

Read any good Java articles lately? As a manager, when you come across a great article, you probably make a mental note to share it with your team. Unfortunately, those articles are often forgotten in ...

Micro Focus Visual COBOL R3 brings COBOL to a broad range of industry-leading deployment platforms. In addition to Windows, UNIX, Linux and .NET, COBOL applications can now be deployed to the Java ...

My article last week on Java touched a nerve with readers. After reading the column, more than 100 people clicked the "mailto" link on my byline and let me know precisely how they felt -- and hundreds ...