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Daily Dose - NoSQLs Join Forces

NoSQL backers Membase and CouchOne just announced that they are merging to create Couchbase, Inc.  Combining the caching and clustering technology of Membase,...

0 replies - 20767 views - 02/09/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Android – Creating links using linkify

  Linkify is a class that lets you create links from a TextView or a Spannable. You can create links not just to web pages, but also to locations on the...

1 replies - 8094 views - 01/28/11 by Avi Yehuda in News

Daily Dose - Oracle Threatened Hudson Creator With the Lawyer Stick

As the Hudson community chooses sides today with a vote for or against renaming the project and moving development away from Oracle, the creator of Hudson,...

1 replies - 32743 views - 01/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Android Gains Serious Ground In Latest Appcelerator Developer Survey

Appcelerator released the results of their quarterly mobile developer survey today, which took place on January 10-12 this year. The timing of the survey was...

1 replies - 4626 views - 01/25/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

Daily Dose - Tomcat 7 Servlet Container Declared Stable

Apache Tomcat has full support for Java EE 6 specs this week, including Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and JSP EL.  The developers just announced that the new release...

0 replies - 16649 views - 01/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - JPA 2.1 and JAX-RS 2.0: Voting Now Open

Two major components of Java EE 7 are up for a vote this month: JSR 338: Java Persistence API 2.1 and JSR 339: JAX-RS (RESTful Web Services on Java) 2.0.  JPA...

1 replies - 17005 views - 01/14/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Mobile Payments Could Fundamentally Change Small Business

In the past few days, mobile credit card payments have been making news. First, Intuit announced a free version of its mobile payments service called...

0 replies - 5317 views - 01/13/11 by Robert Diana in News

Adjusting the Opacity of an Android Bitmap

This took me a lot longer to figure out than it should have done. I’m documenting it here in case it’s useful for somebody else searching for a similar...

0 replies - 8116 views - 01/13/11 by Dan Dyer in Articles

We don’t need another app store

Let’s start this year with an adaptation of the lyrics to Tina Turner’s We Don’t Need Another Hero. Out of the OS domination, out from the...

0 replies - 3702 views - 01/12/11 by Robert Nyman in News

Daily Dose - Cassandra 0.7 Complete

A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today.  New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and...

0 replies - 18012 views - 01/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Google’s Duarte on Android Honeycomb

Engadget has a great interview with Matias Duarte on Honeycomb. Honeycomb is the newest version of Android and currently in development (guided tour at...

0 replies - 5505 views - 01/10/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

Daily Dose - A Sweet "Honeycomb" Preview

In conjunction with this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google has published the first official details on Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" (yes, 3.0...

0 replies - 22185 views - 01/07/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - OODT - The First Apache TLP Inductee of 2011

Apache OODT (Object-Oriented Data Technology) was originally developed in 1998 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  This week, the project was accepted as a...

0 replies - 22092 views - 01/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Firefox: Europe's New #1 Browser

Less than a year after Microsoft was forced to provide that "browser ballot" on setup (for Europe only), their browser (Internet Explorer) has lost...

0 replies - 21672 views - 01/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - A Year Later, Where Are They Now? - Sun Departures

2010 was a year of exodus for many Sun employees who disliked the new corporate philosophy under Oracle.  The blogger Pelegri has compiled a list of companies...

0 replies - 21898 views - 01/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose