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Everything about Java 8

TechEmpower

The following post is a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8. At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. It had the best support for the Java 8 language features at the time I went looking. Language features and APIs may still change.

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Mangling JSON numbers

TechEmpower

When we encounter a long , we can require that the number fits into a double without losing information. If no information would be lost, we serialize the long as usual and move on. If information would be lost, we throw an exception and cause serialization to fail. We can change the way we serialize long into JSON.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. See Environment Details below for more information. In third place is plain Java Servlets running on Cauchos Resin Servlet container. Java / JVM. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. See Environment Details below for more information. In third place is plain Java Servlets running on Caucho''s Resin Servlet container. Java / JVM. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware.

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JS Saturday | Javascript Beginner to Advanced in One Day!

Tech Zulu Event

Have you ever found yourself in a conversation with developers and found yourself lost or even overwhelmed with new information? If you’d like more information please visit JS Saturday. Troy Miles , A designer and developer of software since 1979 writing games in assembly and C. Have you ever wanted to learn Javascript?

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Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. In the past century, curators for business information were specialized news magazines like Forbes and Inc., OnStartups , by Dharmesh Shah.