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There’s more to software quality than a few unit tests and system tests. All levels of your software should be covered, writes Sebastian Bergmann.

To a chorus of glee from developers around the world, New Zealand makes the landmark decision to ban software patenting, on the grounds that software is not an invention.

To a chorus of glee from developers around the world, New Zealand makes the landmark decision to ban software patenting, on the grounds that software is not an invention.

Java is set for a GPU boost with the chip maker consortium announcing parallelism plans for the Java Virtual Machine.

Java is set for a GPU boost with the chip maker consortium announcing parallelism plans for the Java Virtual Machine.

Helped by a change in calculations, Java knocks C to second and reclaims No.1 spot in the popularity programming index

Parallelism, load distribution, state management, caching, big data, asynchronous processing, and static content delivery…these are the methodologies that will enable you to build and maintain enterprise-grade Java apps that scale from day one. Learn about all the above as well as leveraging cloud computing and scaling teams in this JAXConf 2013 session with Abdel Remani, open source advocate and platform architect at just.me. Filming courtesy of Marakana – www.marakana.com

The social coding hub has a new feature, designed to make finding the latest version of your favourite project that much easier

From March’s JAX Magazine, Black Duck’s Dave Gruber explains everything you need to consider when fully embracing open source projects in the enterprise.

Your boss comes to you with a great idea for some software that’s going to change the world. You develop it, you launch it, and it’s like you threw a party that nobody showed up to. Using certain principles from The Lean Startup like Minimum Viable Product, Validated Learning, and Metrics Driven Development, Evangelist and Hacker Peter Bell will show you how to ask the right questions, as an enterprise engineer, to help you avoid the above situation. Filmed by Marakana – www.marakana.com

JAX Editor Chris Mayer managed to catch a few minutes with Github trainer Tim Berglund at JAXConf 2013, to discuss the social coding hub’s radical success over 5 years. Tim also reveals his top tips for those who’ve not jumped on board with Git yet, as well as telling us why he loves Git.

A smorgasbord of content that we noticed in the opening days of 2013.

Some systems are too large to be understood entirely by any one human mind. They are composed of a diverse array of individual components capable of interacting with each other and adapting to a changing environment. As systems, they produce behavior that differs in kind from the behavior of their components. Tim Berglund discusses the emerging discipline of Complexity Theory that seeks to describe such phenomena previously encountered in biology, sociology, economics, and other disciplines. Beyond new ways of looking at ant colonies, fashion trends, and national economies, complexity theory promises powerful insights to software development. The Internet—perhaps the most valuable piece of computing infrastructure of the present day—may fit the description of a complex

An interesting blogpost from one developer reveals why he jacked in his daily routine to travel the world. Question is, would you do the same?