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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 - 16654 views - 01/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - WP7 Marketplace Surpasses Palm's WebOS Store in Less Than 3 Months

Today, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace recorded more than 5k applications in the store, which is just above the number in Palm's WebOS app store.  While the...

0 replies - 24957 views - 12/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Silverlight 5 Plan

At Microsoft's developer-focused Silverlight Firestarter event, they laid out the roadmap for the next version of Silverlight - an RIA platform that is now...

0 replies - 17806 views - 12/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Parallel Web App Deployments in Tomcat 7.0.5 Beta

Apache committers have announced the first beta for the next iteration of Tomcat, version 7.0.5.  As always, the memory leak reductions continue and...

0 replies - 20179 views - 12/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Someone Finally Buys Novell

Novell has finally found a buyer for every sector of its business this week.  While many speculated that VMware was going to take the SUSE Linux division of...

0 replies - 22163 views - 11/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

CentOS 5.5 horizontal scaling

I have been running CentOS 5.4 for a while now, and my website http://www.blincmagazine.com has gotten to the point where I need to scale for additional...

5 replies - 6029 views - 11/26/10 by Mick Knutson in News

Daily Dose - Amazon Brings GPU Instances to Cloud Infrastructure Services

Amazon's eleventh EC2 instance type was unveiled this week, and it's quite similar to their Cluster Compute Instance.  However, this instance harnesses the...

0 replies - 23700 views - 11/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Django 1.3 Goes Alpha

The well-known Python-based web framework, Django, has delivered its first preview release for version 1.3.  This next version will allow developers to use a...

1 replies - 21119 views - 11/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Out of the Blue - Microsoft Open Sources F# Under Apache v2

In a big surprise from Microsoft, Principal Researcher Don Syme announced that their relatively young functional programming language for the .NET platform,...

1 replies - 18691 views - 11/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Seam 3 Goes Beta!

The first beta for JBoss' Seam 3.0 framework is now available.  It requires Weld 1.0.1 Beta 1+ and JBoss logging instead of SLF4J.  This release includes an...

1 replies - 20031 views - 11/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - VP8 SDK is Ready

The WebM project has just delivered their first release of libvpx (codename: "Aylesbury"), the SDK for the VP8 open source video codec.  The VP8...

0 replies - 22169 views - 10/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - London Stock Exchange Switches to Linux - Breaks Record Trading Speed

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has recently migrated from a .NET system over to Linux for their stock trading system.  Recent tests have broken the trading...

0 replies - 19854 views - 10/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Ubuntu Ditches GNOME

I guess this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been keeping up with how much (or how little, really) Canonical contributes to the GNOME open source...

1 replies - 21429 views - 10/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Tomcat 7.0.4 Beta Release Leapfrogs 7.0.3

The 7.0.4 beta release of Apache Tomcat is available for download this week.  The new beta fixes a plethora of bugs and contains enhancements and bugfixes...

0 replies - 21915 views - 10/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java SE Patched Today

Today Oracle is releasing an update that will fix 29 critical holes in the Java Development Kit and the Java Runtime Environment.  The patch effects not only...

0 replies - 17230 views - 10/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose