future

Alternatives to using XML and XSL?

Ok guys, I'm creating a web app thats heavy on data getting pulled from a DB and put in the DB. XML is nice for this but XSL just seems bulky and hard to maintain. Are there any other technologies out there that would be ideal for this situation with the more long term goal of being able to add new features to the web app? Thanks in ...

Are there or will be any hardware specially designed for managed code?

One of my colleagues told me something like that over a year ago. I was wondering if there is something like this available now or will be in the future? I think it was gonna have a separate GC core, and some memory management thing but I am fuzzy about it. Any clues? ...

Next developing language

Hi, I`m C# .Net developer. First of all I want to emphasize: I do not want any holy-war appear in this topic, please I think, I'm a little bored of .net. Now, I'm seeing there many things, that I do not want to see in a language, I've caught feeling, that nowadays C# is obsolete, and I (and other developers) need to have something more ...

Is there somewhere to learn about the possible future of F#?

Are there any websites/blogs (perhaps by F# team members?) where thoughts about the future of F# are regularly discussed/revealed? I know of some team members' blogs, but none that I've found contain this type of content. ...

How Java-Feature multithreading returning result ?

I am still learning about using Future and Callable in Java. Stumble into this question: Say I have class: TaskWorker implements Callable { public String id; public TaskWorker(String id) { this.id = id; } public Documents call() trows Exception { //Assume here, that Search and Doc are my own method to search and re...