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Everything about Java 8

TechEmpower

There's more detail about this class and its performance in a set of slides put together by Heinz Kabutz (starting about half-way through the set of slides): "Phaser and StampedLock Presentation". Nashorn JavaScript Engine. Summary of proposal: JEP 174: Nashorn JavaScript Engine.

Java 560
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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The money slide is the graphic below. A series of standards emerged known as “AJAX” (asynchronous javascript and xml) that gave the web-based designer much more control over the browser. Developers are now able to build apps in native languages such as Javascript or HTML5 that can run in multiple platforms.

Web 355
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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. My first series was the slides that go into a PowerPoint presentation. Since there are 10-12 slides this gave me my first few weeks. At least that’s true in Wordpress. Actually, that’s kind of lame.

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