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Daily Dose - Apache Elects New Board

At today's annual ASF members meeting, the attendees voted for the next board of directors.  Returning board members include Doug Cutting, Roy T. Fielding,...

2 replies - 13033 views - 07/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

GWOS Gets Revamped Java Monitoring

GroundWork Open Source (GWOS) has finished hammering out its 6.2 release of its enterprise network monitoring and management software.  Today, their flagship...

0 replies - 5435 views - 07/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

CI, Testing, and Build Management in the Cloud

Cloud-based development tools - we're seeing more and more of them.  MuleSoft recently released a cloud-ready offering of Tomcat, JetBrains and Electric Cloud...

1 replies - 11043 views - 07/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Terracotta 3.3, Ehcache 2.2 Betas Go Live Tonight!

This news came down today through the Twitter stream with a few links and tidbits of info to share.  Terracotta and their Ehcache, Hibernate, and Quartz...

0 replies - 7512 views - 06/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Spring Gets Deep GWT Integration and GAE Gets Down to Business

Google and VMware speakers took the stage today at Google I/O to announce a new partnership between the two companies, and some exciting cloud and Spring-based...

0 replies - 14236 views - 05/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

db4o 8 Looks Great

The decade-old, open source 'database for objects' has managed to stay speedy and relevant in its old age.  As it reaches version 8.0 with a developer release...

3 replies - 10288 views - 05/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - World Wide Web Lives Up to its Name: Non-Latin Addresses Go Live

ICANN has now begun allowing non-latin characters to be used in top-level internet domains by inserting the first IDN country-code domains into the DNS root...

0 replies - 14144 views - 05/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Major LLVM Release!

After a solid six months of development, the next version of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) compiler infrastructure is live and ready to download.  The...

0 replies - 11738 views - 04/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Gear6's Memcached Adds the Best of Both Worlds: MySQL and NoSQL

One technology that continues to push the limits of data caching and massive web persistence is Gear6's Web Caching Server.  Think of Gear6 Web Cache as a...

0 replies - 9948 views - 04/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Programming in the Large -- Multicore Goodness

The lowly shell (bash, zsh, csh, the whole bunch) is usually a dreadful programming environment. Perfectly awful. With some care, you can easily...

1 replies - 5256 views - 04/01/10 by Steven Lott in News

Datastore Controls in the 1.3.2 GAE SDK

The GAE team delivered the 1.3.2 SDK update last week, and with it came significant new datastore controls.  The SDK allows GAE developers to use eventually...

0 replies - 6890 views - 03/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Terracotta and EnterpriseDB Team Up For High-Performance Private Clouds

Terracotta recently announced another strategic alliance, this time with EnterpriseDB, a PostgresSQL-based database vendor.  Their partnership is aimed at...

0 replies - 7986 views - 03/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

VMware Hires Key NoSQL Developer

The VMware executive blog recently announced the hiring of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the key developer for Redis, a NoSQL database (Key Value/Tuple Store). ...

2 replies - 14546 views - 03/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

How do I use all my cores?

News Flash: Multi-core programming is "hard". EVERYBODY PANIC.ZOMFG: We either need new tools, new languages or both! Right Now!Here's one...

3 replies - 11836 views - 03/15/10 by Steven Lott in News

Cassandra Usurping MySQL on Twitter

One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year.  Some more details have finally surfaced about this...

0 replies - 15590 views - 03/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles