Andrea Gooden, executive director of the Sun Microsystems Foundation, discusses the recently launched Java Teaching Innovations Portal, designed to implement Java-based school curricula. (MP3 Audio, 4:24 mins.)
Today's development environments--you know, that computer screen you look at all night--are more than yesterday's IDE. They're now flexible, powerful, and pluggable. This month we examine some of the most recent incarnations of development platforms, including Eclipse 3.1, NetBeans, 4.1, Visual Studio 2005, and more. We also show you what's what with .NET 2.0, examine the new implementation of threads for Linux, and see what's involved in porting tools and compilers to 64-bit platforms. And we present a reusable Duff's Device. (Don't know what that is? Well, read the article and find out.) All this--and more!
