Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve

TechRepublic recently published an article about languages that developers love and those that they hate. This produced an interesting set of results since Java was the third most loved language as well as the second most hated. Clearly, Java, as a language, polarizes opinion. When I tweeted about this, I got one reply from Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++:

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

I think he has a point.

Top 10 Education APIs

Education technology is changing the way instructors teach and the way students learn. As education becomes more tech-savvy, better tools are needed to provide interoperability and efficiency for educators and students. Developers are stepping up to create applications that are useful for the classroom, and they are looking to the ProgrammableWeb Education category to find the best Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to use for their "EdTech" apps.