
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 - 17355 views - 10/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

After Apple Sued HTC for Android phone-related IP infringement a few months ago, and then after Oracle sued Google for Dalvik's particular usage of Java, a...
0 replies - 18002 views - 10/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

A study from researchers at Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs has discovered that 15 out of 30 popular Android applications selected at...
1 replies - 18160 views - 10/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The unique Java UI tool, Metawidget, has finally reached a high level of maturity since its inception over two years ago. The open source project is...
0 replies - 17508 views - 09/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Darryl Taft wasn't the only one who got an interview with the Father of Java this week. The authors of the Basement Coders blog also got Gosling to do a...
0 replies - 19760 views - 09/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

After a major reorganization at the beginning of this year, the Eclipse Mylyn ALM (application lifecycle management) project has earned 'top level' status. ...
0 replies - 15401 views - 09/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

After its longstanding gripes with the over-valued SunSpider benchmark, Mozilla has finally made the first public version of their own benchmark. They call...
1 replies - 20748 views - 09/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

They couldn't wait ten more days for Oracle OpenWorld to release an update to the Solaris 10 operating system. Oracle has quietly released the update along...
0 replies - 17662 views - 09/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The first beta of the Virgo Web Server (formerly the Spring dm Server) is getting very close now that the Eclipse Foundation released the fourth milestone...
0 replies - 18759 views - 09/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

LinkedIn has tracked approximately 118 former Google employees who have left after Facebook made offers that they couldn't refuse. These offers likely...
2 replies - 18931 views - 09/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The CSS3-based framework for dynamically resizing text columns on various form factors just got better. The Less Framework will resize columns in a browser...
0 replies - 23392 views - 08/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The RabbitMQ messaging system, which was recently be acquired by VMware's SpringSource, has reached version 2.0. The AMQP-based system has a new persister...
0 replies - 22757 views - 08/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or...
0 replies - 22279 views - 08/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Several reports are saying that the Chrome operating system will be here by the end of November. That's because on November 26th, Google plans to release a...
0 replies - 24216 views - 08/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Two years have passed since the release of Vim 7.2, and today version 7.3 is here with a few improvements, but nothing major. Vim has remained a consistently...
0 replies - 21227 views - 08/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose