Python’s new JIT compiler might be the biggest speed boost we’ve seen in a while, but it’s not without bumps. Get that news and more, in this week’s report.

Piezofluorochromism, the phenomenon of materials reversibly changing their fluorescent color when pressure is applied, is ...

Java annotations were designed for metadata. Spring uses them for dependency injection. Lombok uses them for code generation. JPA uses them for ORM mapping. We use them to write entire programs. This ...

The goal of this project is to provide simple, portable and compatible code (data encrypted in Python can be decrypted in PHP, and so on). The encryption algorithm used is AES in CBC and CFB mode.

Over the past 30 years, a vibrant community has formed around Java. Throughout the year, I interviewed several German-speaking representatives about their experiences. The response was overwhelming.