I have to disagree with this. I work for a large etailer ( w/ millions of hits a day) that has been switching to Java in recent years. As with all places we have a range of programming skill levels throughout the dev teams, though most I would classify as average/intermediate. The over-all amount of code, the complexity of the code and environment, and work required by the sysops to maintain the code very quickly outpaced the old PHP stack. While our sysop teams focus on trying to keeping tomcat running, we have an old PHP forum quietly humming away in the corner taking almost minimal work to keep running while it serves 60% of our traffic. My experience with it has been pretty negative in this environment with many 'average' developers.

But, that being said, this argument is mostly subjective, as the quality and quantity of code is less dependent on the language, and more dependent on the people/organization developing and driving it. I think where java shines is it's ability to easily enforce constraints and the inherent security benefits from a compiled language. But it also costs far more to spin up a Java environment and maintain it, so it is something that most startups will not be able to do out of the gates.

I think you missed his point. Even before this Net Neutrality bill ruckus the government was monitoring traffic so in that respect it doesn't change anything. But more importantly it doesn't give the government more control, it states that the ISP cannot prefer one site's traffic or another. The argument that this stifles competition is mind boggling to me. If you allow them to pick and choose traffic, and can 100% guarantee you that competition will be stifled. And don't forget, they didn't build the infrastructure on their own. The telecoms have taken in billions of dollars of tax payer subsidies and land to build it out, and as such I feel we as tax payers have a right to regulate how they run their lines.

I concur. Been using VirtualBox for a couple years now. There's nothing better for a fully cross platform solution.

Anytime an article uses the terms such as "left-wing activists" or "right-wing activists", it will be immediately disregarded and ignored due to political bias and hidden agendas. But that's just my 2 cents.

Interesting link there. I always get a kick how many of the folks trying to casting doubt on global warming use links to organizations linked (directly or indirectly) to the fossil fuel industry. Hmm, I wonder what those articles are going to conclude?