Hibernate 3.4 has several notable new features, including an upgrade to the new Lucene 3.1. The focus of this release was improved faceting. By dividing the results of each query into multiple categories, determining the number of matching elements with...
1 replies - 23335 views - 04/19/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Oracle's new Java 7 JDK, or JDK7, is now available for download by developers. This version of JDK7 has been officially feature complete since the beginning of the year. Users are encouraged to report bugs between now and the end of March. Just remember...
1 replies - 21370 views - 02/24/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
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 project. Canonical made it official this week that they are moving Ubuntu away from the GNOME...
1 replies - 18952 views - 10/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The 7.0.4 beta release of Apache Tomcat is available for download this week. The new beta fixes a plethora of bugs and contains enhancements and bugfixes from an unreleased 7.0.3 beta. One feature from 7.0.3 further reduces code duplication in the HTTP...
0 replies - 19284 views - 10/22/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
A study from researchers at Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs has discovered that 15 out of 30 popular Android applications selected at random were sending GPS data and phone numbers to advertisers and remote servers. Several months...
1 replies - 15545 views - 10/01/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Some interesting statistics came out of the GUADEC conference this week, and with them, a fiery condemnation blog by former Red Hat employee Greg DeKoenigsberg.
11 replies - 7537 views - 07/29/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
By introducing a central licensing server on the Android Marketplace, Google hopes to provide an effective method for protecting Android apps that can currently be copied pretty easily. The licensing service works with almost every version of Android, all...
0 replies - 10732 views - 07/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers. That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first release candidate for RoR 3, which is now available. The fixes have focused on bringing Rails 3...
0 replies - 12558 views - 07/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Project release manager Vincent Untz posted a synopsis of the new modules that will be included in GNOME 3.0. The GNOME Activity Journal didn't make the cut and neither did the Clutter GUI, but the GNOME Shell did. So did the GNOME Color Manager and the...
0 replies - 11985 views - 06/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Mozilla Metrics blog announced the publishing of the foundation's first ever quarterly analyst report on browser share and other internet insights. The report says that Firefox currently has a global market share of nearly 30% and in Europe, that share...
0 replies - 12229 views - 04/01/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
India Gets Cut Off from PayPal Since late January, PayPal has suspended personal payments going in and out of India. PayPal representative, Anju Nayar says that his company is sorry for the inconvenience, but he didn't say why the services were...
1 replies - 12864 views - 02/10/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights. Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple machines. Apparently, Psystar didn't read the Mac OS X end user license agreement, which states...
0 replies - 10485 views - 11/16/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
