The Citizen Developer. The Citizen Developer Becomes the Human-in-the-Loop. By Howard M. Cohen; December 22, 2025; This column launched as "The Citizen Developer" on October 17, 2 ...

If you haven't seen the latest Java developer productivity report from Perforce, you should check it out. Written by Perforce CTO Rod Cope and developer tools exec Jeff Michael, the "2025 Java ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

Ol' Linus is at it again. Outspoken Linux creator Linus Torvalds last week, in his usual imitable style, blasted a volunteer developer for not fixing a problem and basically "fired" the guy from ...

OpenAI has made its gpt-image-1 image generation model available through its public API, giving software developers direct access to the same system that powers image creation in ChatGPT. The release ...

It's been about seven years since Jonas Bonér, co-founder and CTO of Lightbend and creator of the Akka project, first published "The Reactive Manifesto" with contributions from Dave Farley, Roland ...

Oracle has released GraalVM for JDK 25, introducing new features for its native image technology, while confirming that future development of the platform will shift away from the Java release cycle ...

Software development toolmaker JetBrains has created a new IDE designed specifically for the Rust system programming language. Dubbed RustRover, the new IDE combines advanced coding support with an ...

Google Cloud this week introduced Vertex AI Agent Builder, a new tool that consolidates Vertex AI Search and Conversation products, enhancing the developer's toolbox for generative AI agent ...

I hope you enjoyed that selection process, because it's now time to start it all over again. In February 2025 we discussed "The Implications of AI Agents for the Citizen Developer" and talked about ...

Oracle hosted the JavaOne 2025 developer conference last month at its Redwood Shores campus, marking three decades since the launch of the Java programming language. The three-day event focused on ...

At its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a significant update to its AI agent platform, adding support for low-code customization, multi-agent coordination, and new security ...