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• Devs with JavaScript skills in highest demand: report

  ​.Net developer, full stack developer and front end developer are the three technology sector occupations in highest demand in Australia.

• JRuby upgrade promises better performance

  JRuby, a veteran among languages other than Java riding atop the JVM, will be upgraded Wednesday with the release of JRuby 9000.

• Enterprise Java moves back into the spotlight

  Java EE (Enterprise Edition), which is geared to running large-scale network applications, has taken a back seat lately to Java SE (Standard Edition) as far as the buzz each has been creating.

• Reserve Bank to deploy new core IT platform

  The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has tendered for a replacement core banking solution that will process in excess of 320 million payment and 25 million collection transactions each year.
  

• Red Hat takes the reins of OpenJDK 7

  Red Hat is taking over stewardship of the OpenJDK 7 project, at the moment a generation behind the current release of Java.

• Oracle lays out Lego-like future of Java

  Developers have plenty to look forward to in Java, given efforts afoot to add modularization and improvements data access and performance.

• Java focuses on modularity, real-time apps in 2015

  It's full speed ahead for modular and real-time Java efforts early in the new year.

• Waratek tackles Java application security

  Waratek is introducing its first product aimed at Java application security, and it works by identifying weaknesses, especially in open-source platforms, and then acts like a shield against attacks.

• In Pictures: 15 things we hate about Java

  Slow startup times, null pointers, security flaws -- Java's ongoing success leaves plenty to complain about

• Big Data Application Framework Gets Update, SQL Interface

  Open source big data application platform specialist Concurrent has released a new version of the Cascading application framework and simultaneously released Cascading Lingual 1.0, an ANSI SQL interface for Hadoop.

• Top 10 tech stories of 2012: a busted IPO, spotlight on workers, titans in transition

  Change in any industry involves conflict. Evolution and revolution in tech this year took place not only in the marketplace but also in the courtroom, the factory, and on the Web. Here are the top news stories of 2012 as selected by the editors of the IDG News Service.

• Java inventor James Gosling building smart marine robots

  James Gosling, the inventor of the Java programming language when he worked at Sun Microsystems, finds the security framework for Java he designed still stands up after all these years. In fact he's using it today to design marine robots that can be sent across the ocean to gather weather data or carry out research projects.

• OpenWorld 2011 news roundup

  All the news and pictures from Oracle's flagship event in San Francisco

• Oracle wants copyright claims to remain in Google suit

  Oracle said that no court has ever found that APIs for software like Java are ineligible for copyright protection, in its objection to Google's request that the court make a summary judgment on Oracle's copyright allegations.

• Indian vs American programmers

  If there were ever an IT Olympics, in which software developers could compete to solve programming problems, the event would likely take place on Gild, an online career development community where IT professionals from around the world do just that.