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Daily Dose - Droid X Shuts Down If You Hack It

The Motorola Droid X phone was released this week, but a lot of reports said that hacking the phone would break the hardware as a secuity measure in the eFuse...

1 replies - 13803 views - 07/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Adobe First to Use SourceForge's New Platform

SourceForge has just unveiled their all-new forge development platform, SourceForge 2.0, and the first organization to open a forge on it was Adobe.  The new...

2 replies - 6723 views - 07/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

How Do Developers Feel About Java and MySQL 6 Months After the Sun Acquisition?

Overall, there seems to be only a slight amount of confidence in Oracle's stewardship of its recently inherited open source technologies like Java and MySQL. ...

2 replies - 7546 views - 07/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

OpenSolaris Governing Board Issues Ultimatum to Oracle -- Update

Update:  At the bottom of this page you will find commentary on these events from Nexenta CEO Evan Powell.  Nexenta is invested in the future of OpenSolaris...

0 replies - 7866 views - 07/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - In the Future, Twelve Year Olds Will Write Your Android App

You heard me.  Along with its announcement of the Google App Inventor for Android, Google also mentioned that the free software had been tested on nursing...

0 replies - 12742 views - 07/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java Apps Now Work on Symbian

Symbian's Product Dev Kit 3.0 adds the mobile runtime for Java applications (JRT) from Nokia this week, meaning developers can now write Java applications for...

1 replies - 13918 views - 07/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Virgo Blazes with 5x Startup Performance Boost

The second milestone of Virgo 2.1 is heating up the speed of Spring's former dm Server.  The Eclipse Virgo project now includes a complete 'getting started...

0 replies - 8659 views - 07/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Can the EU Make Apple, Adobe, and Others Interoperate?

We haven't heard much from the European Commission and its current VP Neelie Kroes since the Oracle/Sun-MySQL fiasco, but quietly Kroes is preparing an...

1 replies - 3622 views - 07/05/10 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 - 7501 views - 06/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Open Source Community Gets To Taste Froyo

Android app developers were reminded again this week about why they like to write code for Google's platform rather than Apple's.  The Android developers at...

0 replies - 6334 views - 06/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Video: Three Open Source Projects

Shawn Hartsock currently works on PNG-J, which is a pure Java re-implementation of the PNG libraries.  He is also working on a QR plugin for Grails, which is...

0 replies - 4472 views - 06/23/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Video: Domain object "mangling" in Grails

In the Grails community, they're trying to figure out how to merge current view technologies (e.g. jQuery, jQueryUI, Google Widgets) with the Grails...

0 replies - 7052 views - 06/23/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Daily Dose - Java ME Devs Get a Testing Price Cut

The mobile manufacturers that make up the Unified Test Initiative have decided to lower the price of testing Java ME software on different mobile phones and...

0 replies - 11534 views - 06/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Gosling Praises Azul Open Source Initiative

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 - 11201 views - 06/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The 3 Things That Motivate Us

How do I motivate my developers? - is a question you hear all the time from managers who haven't been paying attention to the patterns found in many software...

6 replies - 15335 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles