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Daily Dose - Spring 3.0.4 Supports Ehcache 2.2, EclipseLink 2.1, and More

The 3.0.4 update to Spring includes 80 different bugfixes and enhancements.  Some highlights include support for updated third-party tools like Hibernate Core...

0 replies - 24616 views - 08/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Firefox 4 Getting Auto-Updates

Tucked away in a tiny corner of the Firefox discussion forum is a quote from Alex Faaborg, a principal designer on Firefox.  The posting says that Firefox 4...

0 replies - 20014 views - 08/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Gaelyk 0.4.3 Improves Logging Infrastructure

The lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine, Gaelyk, has reached 0.4.3.  This release includes a new standard hierarchy approach in the logging...

0 replies - 14381 views - 08/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google Plans Licensing Server to Protect Android Apps

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 - 13038 views - 07/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Can We Stop Talking About the iPhone Antenna Now?

In this week's edition of 'Media Frenzy Over Basically Nothing,' Apple finally called a press conference to end all the crazy talk about possible recalls and...

0 replies - 19431 views - 07/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Scala 2.8 Blasts Off

Stick a fork in it - Scala 2.8 is done.  The GA release hit this morning with sweeping changes that include a revamped collection library, named and default...

0 replies - 13266 views - 07/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Push Notifications: Standards Coming

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 - 13865 views - 07/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Firefox 4.0 Sneaks its First Release

Mozilla quietly pushed the first beta release of Firefox 4 this week, with no feature lists or announcements yet.  If you've been using 3.7 then there should...

2 replies - 13002 views - 06/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Apple Sues HTC Some More

You might remember that Apple filed an infringement suit against handset-maker HTC earlier this year based on several patents.  Some saw this as an indirect...

0 replies - 13217 views - 06/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - More Firefox 4 Features Leak Into Preview

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 - 13415 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Twitter Tinkers With Redis

Twitter began using NoSQL last year as it rolled its systems onto the widely popular Cassandra system (used by large web properties such as Digg and...

0 replies - 14079 views - 06/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Chrome OS Coming in the Fall

Sometime around November 2010, Google expects to release its lightweight Chrome Operating System.  According to Reuters, a top Google executive made the...

1 replies - 12902 views - 06/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Will Patent Trolls Buy Novell?

Novell revealed last week that it was putting itself up for auction after turning down a $2 billion acquisition offer.  The thing that has the software...

0 replies - 13565 views - 05/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Palm Loses WebOS Lead to Google

After losing two leaders of the Android project, Google is filling the void with the lead designer of Palm's WebOS, Matias Duarte.  Duarte, a UI master, will...

0 replies - 15253 views - 05/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Intel's Mind Reader

At the Tech Heaven event this week, Intel and Carnegie Mellon University unveiled rudimentary mind-reading software that uses an MRI to scan your brainwaves in...

0 replies - 12620 views - 04/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose