
With funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Intel, and Microsoft, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has undertaken a project to...
0 replies - 20666 views - 10/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

A DBA suggested that I read up on "Practical API Design: Confessions of a
Java Framework Architect". Apparently the DBA had
read the phrase...
2 replies - 8790 views - 10/13/10 by Steven Lott in News

The nearly finished 5.5 version
of MySQL is at the release candidate stage this week. The 5.5 version
now uses InnoDB by default instead of the old...
0 replies - 17537 views - 09/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

This blog post was inspired by a link my friend sent me titled “Agile Ruined My Life” as well as a conversation with my friends/co-workers and just wanting...
15 replies - 6453 views - 09/19/10 by Ilya Sterin in Articles

He called it "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs." Now Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has put his money...
0 replies - 19016 views - 09/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

0 replies - 3003 views - 09/02/10 by Christian Harms in Uncategorized

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 - 24624 views - 08/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

0 replies - 4190 views - 08/17/10 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

The question of "customization" and "extension" is a common one. For
example, "non-technical users to be able to extend with simple...
3 replies - 5196 views - 08/08/10 by Steven Lott in News

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0 replies - 4214 views - 07/19/10 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

The Mercurial version control system reached its 1.6 release this month, and is available for download here. The DVCS sports two major new features in 1.6. ...
2 replies - 13208 views - 07/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Some big iPhone and Android news broke today - first, there was the iPhone 4 release, which may have reached record-breaking sales levels. However, there...
0 replies - 14162 views - 06/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Its as easy as scanning that weird looking square with your Android phone to have it automatically download and install an Android package (.apk) wirelessly...
0 replies - 14303 views - 06/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

"Yet another Google App Engine implementation" is going to become a catchphrase this year and into 2011. We began to see the early stages of GAE...
3 replies - 7715 views - 06/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles