Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Weeks before Microsoft plans to reinstate Java in Windows XP, it has shut down a site that would automatically send its Java software to Windows XP users. The company closed the install-on-demand ...

Apple has added new tools in Safari 5 and 6 that allow users to control which sites the Java plugin is enabled for. The security tools came with the latest tweaks to Java SE 6, which Oracle stopped ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. hopes to enlist some of the Internet’s most popular Web sites to help promote the use of Java on PCs, as the programming language’s place on the desktop remains uncertain. Java ...

Attackers using two recently-uncovered Java unpatched vulnerabilities, or “zero-days,” have quickly expanded their reach by going mainstream, security experts said today. And on Tuesday, Mozilla, ...

A book to help make your Java Web site run smoothly Your email has been sent Norris Shelton Let me start by saying that Performance Analysis for Java Web Sites is not intended to help you make your ...

Java has been a top-ranked programming language for years, thanks in part to an enormous set of libraries—both bundled with the software and available free in open source repositories—that developers ...

The ProgramCreek.com blog has recently featured two interesting posts targeted at “advanced” Java developers: Top 10 Books For Advanced Level Java Developers and Top 10 Websites for Advanced Level ...

Yahoo has come under severe criticism by security experts decrying its practice of steering small businesses to a Web site-building tool that uses an insecure 2008 version of Java. Businesses signing ...

First, the bad news. Once again, Mac users are at risk due to a flaw in Java, similar to the one that enabled the Flashback Trojan. Even worse, there isn’t (yet) a patch to fix that vulnerability. But ...