IF YOU COULD ONLY LEARN ONE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, HAXE WOULD BE IT. IT’S UNIVERSAL. IT’S POWERFUL. IT’S EASY-TO-USE via index – Haxe.

Oracle today officially released Java 8, ushering in a new era of development capabilities for the standard-bearer of enterprise IT software platforms. The path to Java 8 has been a long one for Oracle, dating back to at least 2010, when the Java Community Process (JCP) voted in favor of JSR-337, the specification for Java …

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The Joomla! Framework™ is a new PHP framework (a collection of software libraries/packages) for writing web and command line applications in PHP, without the features and corresponding overhead found in the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS). It provides a structurally sound foundation, which is easy to adapt and easy to extend. via Joomla! Framework.

The Debian developers are considering the release of an LTS long-term support version for their Wheezy branch, but nothing has been settled so far and they are looking for people with the available time and energy for such a project. via Debian Developers Are Preparing an LTS Version for “Wheezy”.

Elgg – Open Source Social Networking Engine..

Twitter paid $36 million over IBM patent threat | Ars Technica.

A few weeks ago, when our own “Arscoin” cryptocurrency was first minted, it looked like Senior Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson would control the majority of the coins. He started mining early, and he has a crowd of Linux servers sitting in his closet that can outrun the all-in-one desktops and power-sipping Ultrabooks most of us have on …

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People don’t want ads, they want memories. To shift from spammy marketing to providing experiences, companies like Anheuser-Busch, Spotify, NPR, and Wired promoted 80,000 events in 2013 with a little startup called Splash. In co-founder Ben Hindman’s first in-depth interview, he tells me how Splash’s event platform is challenging bland incumbents with its beautifully designed …

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MongoDB is working on tools to make it easier to manage large clusters of, say, 100 servers. via MongoDB chief: Why the clock’s ticking for relational databases | ZDNet.

Manage billions of events and process hundreds of thousands of new events every second. All of the infrastructure runs in your own data center: No need to worry about sensitive data leaving your company or shipping your logs away over the internet. via Graylog2 – Open source log management and data analytics.