Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Java is an incredibly successful toolset - but what is it really and how did it get to be so popular? To understand what it is and how it got this way you have to start with the problem it was meant ...

The link What Every Programmer Should Know about Time was recently posted on DZone and was a highly popular link. It references the original Emil Mikulic post Time and What Programmers Should Know ...

Java has not become as pervasive as the original hype suggested, but it is a popular language, used a lot for in-house and server-side development and other applications. Java has less mind-share in ...

Update January 10, 2013: A zero-day exploit is in the wild, attacking fully patched versions of Java. You can protect yourself by disabling the Java plugin from your ...

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 ...

Is it just me or did anyone else ROFL when they learned about the pending Snoracle merger? On one hand, you have a company (Sun) that pioneered and embraced open source (UNIX, Java and MySQL). On the ...