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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 - 6328 views - 11/29/10 by Rauf Issa in Articles

Smart phones: Open, Closed, and Fragmented

Android is Open, iOS is closed.  Well, that is one way to look at it.  Steve Jobs would prefer: Integrated vs. Fragmented.  As we've learned from...

0 replies - 7439 views - 11/24/10 by Eric Daugherty in News

Android is a Success, but for Whom?

There is no arguing that the market share of devices built on the Open Source Android operating system is impressive.  The Android platform, judged by...

4 replies - 5181 views - 11/23/10 by Eric Daugherty in News

Daily Dose - Spring Mobile and Spring Android Go Live

SpringSource just announced two new projects to aid Spring users in mobile application development.  The first is Spring Mobile, which provides extensions to...

0 replies - 24476 views - 11/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Comparing the iPhone and Android Development Environments

I’ve spent the last few weeks working on an Android project at work and, I have to say, I am having a familiar feeling of shock at how bad the Android...

20 replies - 21488 views - 11/19/10 by John Blanco in News

Daily Dose - Amazon Brings GPU Instances to Cloud Infrastructure Services

Amazon's eleventh EC2 instance type was unveiled this week, and it's quite similar to their Cluster Compute Instance.  However, this instance harnesses the...

0 replies - 23700 views - 11/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Jt7.0 - Java Design Pattern Framework for Android

Jt7.0 has been released. Jt is a design pattern framework for the rapid implementation of Java and Android applications. Jt implements many well-known...

0 replies - 1989 views - 11/13/10 by EG in Announcements

Daily Dose - Google Fires Back: 'Oracle Doctored the Code in Question'

Google presented a new document to the court in the Oracle-Android case.  In the document, Google says that they did not copy Oracle's Java APIs and that...

0 replies - 25499 views - 11/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Django 1.3 Goes Alpha

The well-known Python-based web framework, Django, has delivered its first preview release for version 1.3.  This next version will allow developers to use a...

1 replies - 21118 views - 11/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Hudson Creator Joins CloudBees

After the creator of the popular, open source Hudson continuous integration tool left Oracle, he started his own company, InfraDNA, to continue Hudson...

0 replies - 18919 views - 11/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - London Stock Exchange Switches to Linux - Breaks Record Trading Speed

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has recently migrated from a .NET system over to Linux for their stock trading system.  Recent tests have broken the trading...

0 replies - 19854 views - 10/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Oracle Clarifies its Case, Motions to Strike Google's Letter

Although they haven't shown us the source document yet, some news sites are reporting that Oracle has updated its original complaint in the lawsuit against...

9 replies - 6137 views - 10/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - Oracle Responds to Lea Departure and Hologic Nomination

It was very surprising this week to find that Oracle employees actually responded to some of the bad press surrounding their company as of late - namely, the...

0 replies - 21043 views - 10/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

A Gingerbread Man Told Us: The Next Android is On The Way

Google unleashed their latest giant concoction this week, signaling an immanent new release for the Android operating system.  A classically decorated,...

0 replies - 4973 views - 10/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - Ubuntu Ditches GNOME

I guess this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been keeping up with how much (or how little, really) Canonical contributes to the GNOME open source...

1 replies - 21429 views - 10/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose