Oracle's Cameron Purdy took a look back at Java and C++ in a presentation Thursday at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas. He marked Java as a significant step forward from C++ and continued, suggesting that the Java language was in a good position to thrive in years to come as grid- and cloud-oriented distributed architectures find greater use.

Modern Web sites and Web applications tend to rely quite heavily on client-side JavaScript to provide rich interactivity, particularly through the advent of asynchronous HTTP requests that do not require page refreshes to return data or responses from a server-side script or database system. In this article, you will discover how JavaScript frameworks make it easier and faster to create highly interactive and responsive Web sites and Web applications.

The community has made some amazing Chrome extensions. Here is the list of 7 Extremely Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers which are very easy to use for every day work.

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When you build a code generator you have two basic options 1) Generate code to be read, complemented and possibly modified by humans - 2) Generate code purely as a convenient intermediate step toward bytecode/machine code compilation. The first approach seems to be the most common.