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• From Java code to Java heap

  Get insight into the memory usage of Java code, and learn how to determine where inefficiencies occur in your application and how to choose the right collections to improve your code.

• Java technical podcast series: Toura's Matt Rogish and Rebecca Murphey

  Learn more about the Mulberry open-source mobile development framework and how it fits into the mobile world in this podcast with the framework's creators.

• Functional JavaScript with CoffeeScript and Node

  CoffeeScript is famous for smoothing out JavaScript's rough edges, but it has other advantages worth exploring. This article examines how CoffeeScript can open up the world of functional programming latent in JavaScript libraries.

• dW community: Rapid Application Development for Mobile Devices

  Rapid Application Development for Mobile Devices group

• Sending push notifications to iOS devices

  Using push technology, server applications can deliver text alerts, media files, and app-specific data directly to iOS apps -- without the trouble and expense of implementing SMS or MMS. Learn the steps for making push work for your iOS apps, and see how to streamline the process on the server side via the open source JavaPNS library.

• Functional thinking: Functional features in Groovy, Part 3

  Explore the benefits of caching at the function level with Groovy and learn how to achieve better results (with virtually no change to your code) than the imperative version.