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Rooting for the dream

MG Siegler’s posts on Techcrunch are the running joke of the blogosphere, but for some reason, his latest article just prompted me to...

1 replies - 3933 views - 12/21/10 by Cedric Beust in News

Android – Multithreading in a UI environment

Why do we need multithreading in Android applications? Let’s say you want to do a very long operation when the user pushes a button. If you are not...

1 replies - 24256 views - 12/21/10 by Avi Yehuda in News

Daily Dose - Weld Extensions 3.0 Beta 1 Now Available; Renamed "Seam Solder"

Early on there was some confusion about what Weld Extensions is and how it differs from Weld, and how it fits into Seam.  Well JBoss is clearing up some...

0 replies - 24024 views - 12/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - What's the Honeycomb Version Number?

It looks like Google may hold on to the Android 3.0 title for another more spectacular future release.  As it stands, a source reports that the next version...

0 replies - 26830 views - 12/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - CloudBees Adds Another Java All-Star

A few weeks ago, CloudBees, a cloud infrastructure that lets developers write code, test it, and put it into production on a PaaS, acquired InfraDNA—the...

0 replies - 24079 views - 12/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Eclipse 3.7 and 4.1 Hit Milestone 4

Eclipse 3.7 "Indigo" and Eclipse 4.1, which is still aimed at early adopters, received new features in milestone 4 this week.  For both Eclipse...

0 replies - 26350 views - 12/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Nominate Someone For The 2011 Eclipse Awards!

The Eclipse Foundation is now taking nominations for the 2011 Eclipse Community  Awards.  The deadline is January 28, 2011.  Categories for awards include...

0 replies - 21631 views - 12/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - IntelliJ IDEA X: Faster, Smarter, Plus a Free Android IDE!

It's been a little more than a year since IntelliJ IDEA 9 was released and a free and open source version of the IDE became available—this turned out to be a...

0 replies - 24140 views - 12/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Salesforce Snatches Heroku for $212 million

The Ruby-based PaaS Heroku is going to be acquired by cloud pioneer Salesforce for $212 million in cash.  Compare that to the $13 million they raised in...

1 replies - 22265 views - 12/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Android 2.3 Gingerbread: the browser

I’ve to admit: I had a high expectative for new APIs and feature support in Gingerbread. After the iOS 4.2 update, and the last Google IO announcements for...

1 replies - 7588 views - 12/07/10 by Maximiliano Firtman in News

Daily Dose - Amazon Adds DNS to its Long List of Services

AWS announced that they are now providing a highly available Domain Name System service called "Route 53."  The new service is aimed at developers...

0 replies - 15364 views - 12/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

At Last! Android 2.3 SDK Drops, Nexus S Revealed

I'm sure it has been an agonizing wait for Android developers, knowing that Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" was on the cusp of release for several weeks...

1 replies - 6327 views - 12/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Real Android apps leveraging db4o persistence engine (Part 2)

This the second delivery in a series of articles targeted at showing developers how db4o (an open source database that leverages today's object-oriented...

0 replies - 4618 views - 11/30/10 by German Viscuso in Articles

Android – Opening a new screen

  Opening a new screen is fairly easy in android. This post will show you almost all you need to know about switching back and forth between screens in...

1 replies - 8262 views - 11/30/10 by Avi Yehuda in News

Mobile Apps: Native vs Web

Many developers run into this debate when building mobile apps for iOS and Android. Modern smartphone OS's and browsers are now quite powerful and can run...

2 replies - 6326 views - 11/29/10 by Rauf Issa in Articles