The third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" is upon us. Based on the 2.6.35 Linux kernel, Ubuntu 10.10 a3 has updated to GNOME 2.31...
0 replies - 15498 views - 08/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Some interesting statistics came out of the GUADEC conference this week, and with them, a fiery condemnation blog by former Red Hat employee Greg...
11 replies - 9468 views - 07/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
By introducing a central licensing server on the Android Marketplace, Google hopes to provide an effective method for protecting Android apps that can...
0 replies - 12917 views - 07/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers. That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first...
0 replies - 15482 views - 07/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A
reader wrote me this week that his bash scripts were complaining "out
of memory"; what should he do? It didn't take long to get him moving...
1 replies - 4835 views - 07/08/10 by Cameron Laird in News
Real time alerts are a wonderful convenience in today's native apps, but now the W3C wants to bring this functionality to web apps. This week they formed a...
0 replies - 13729 views - 07/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
After announcing the Managed
Runtime Initiative last week, Azul Systems pulled another trick out
of its hat today by announcing a pure software solution...
0 replies - 10385 views - 06/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Although this "100 day" release of GlassFish 3.0.1 is relatively minor, there are several features that make this version noteworthy. First,...
0 replies - 14576 views - 06/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Azul Systems, the employer of JVM Guru Dr. Cliff Click, just announced an open initiative for improving managed runtimes. Java creator James Gosling says...
2 replies - 11210 views - 06/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
The Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 developer preview was released this week with the 1.9.3 alpha of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. This release includes some...
0 replies - 13289 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Simon Phipps acknowledged some of the "stone throwing" aimed at the Open Source Initiative. Some of the criticism, he said, was not without...
2 replies - 11854 views - 06/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
An official Google message posted by a non-Google party revealed a thin client functionality called Chromoting (unofficially). Chromoting will be built into...
0 replies - 13447 views - 06/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A security breach exposed an exclusive email list of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers, which included White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Diane Sawyer of...
0 replies - 15357 views - 06/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Nexenta is no stranger to talented developers. The company was founded by the same developers who wrote the iSCSI stack for Linux in 2003. When Sun...
0 replies - 6350 views - 06/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Project release manager Vincent Untz posted a synopsis of the new modules that will be included in GNOME 3.0. The GNOME Activity Journal didn't make the cut...
0 replies - 14664 views - 06/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
