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Daily Dose - SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some

SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some  The open source domain is still feeling the effects of the Chinese cyberattack on Gmail. ...

0 replies - 20410 views - 01/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The Best Groovy Modules You Might Not Know About

It's no secret that Groovy and its many related goodies are quite popular, especially at DZone where the announcement of Groovy 1.7 got 137 up votes, making it...

0 replies - 20925 views - 01/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - YouTube and Vimeo Foster HTML5 Escalation

YouTube and Vimeo Foster HTML5 EscalationJust days after YouTube began its HTML5 experiment, Vimeo has responded with the same option.  Both websites now...

1 replies - 19137 views - 01/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

EU Gives Larry the Go Ahead

Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems received the seal of approval from the European Commission this week following Oracle CEO Larry Elllison's...

0 replies - 10014 views - 01/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Eclipse Could Lead the OSGi Movement with dmServer

VMWare's SpringSource recently made two major announcements regarding its OSGi based Java application server.  First, they announced the arrival of the 2.0...

0 replies - 8251 views - 01/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Apache Portals Simplifies Releases with Nexus Staging Suite

In this guest post, Ate Douma, Lead Architect at Hippo, Apache member, and committer for the Apache Portals project, discusses how Nexus Professional’s...

0 replies - 3599 views - 01/12/10 by Alex Maier in News

Daily Dose - Where's the SDK, Google?

Windows 7 Slate PC's Unveiled Before Apple's Tablet   While Apple keeps their 'Tablet' under lock and key until late January, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer...

0 replies - 14707 views - 01/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

It's Not Dead - It's Stable!

I am developing and maintaining a small collection of open source tools called Butterfly Components, on my website at http://butterfly.jenkov.com. From time to...

12 replies - 5169 views - 01/07/10 by Jakob Jenkov in News

Monty Will Fight to the Bitter End

With a headline that claims you can "Help keep the Internet free," MySQL creator Monty Widenius sprung into action once again on his blog to rally...

6 replies - 8526 views - 12/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Top 5 Essays You Should Read

Certainly, there are many landmark books in software development that have shaped our industry. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software...

3 replies - 19958 views - 12/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/16

Another tech news rumor was dispersed and debunked today.  Reports surfaced recently that suggested the Nexus One phone would be subsidized by Google in...

0 replies - 10906 views - 12/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

SmartSVN 6.5: Differentiating Features

The Subversion (SVN) version control system, which will soon be under the Apache banner, has plenty of graphical clients available.  SVN clients are small,...

3 replies - 8983 views - 12/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/12

Yesterday, EC chair Neelie Kroes was optimistic that Oracle and the EU could come to an agreement.  Today, Oracle attacked the EU, saying that they have only...

0 replies - 16000 views - 12/12/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Java EE 6 and NetBeans 6.8 Arrive Today

This morning Sun announced the release of the Java EE 6 SDK and the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, which is the first application server to support Java EE...

1 replies - 15127 views - 12/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Open Source IntelliJ IDEA 9: A Coding Partner

JetBrains recently announced the public availability of its popular (and formerly proprietary) IDE.  The announcement caused a lot of excitement and spurred...

4 replies - 9694 views - 12/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles