A common word such as "the," "of," "on," and "a." Stop words are not indexed, and when used in a query, are also ignored. However, different search engines do not use the same stop words, so the ...

Jeff Friesen on why JavaFX developers have reason to question current thinking that says native apps are out of the game, and why it's time to let the Java Plug-in go. Topics Spotlight: Solving ...

And yet that’s exactly what Oracle seems to be up to with its (sadly necessarily frequent) security updates for Java. As Ed Bott explains in this excellent article , when the world was rushing to ...