I have had most of my test environment, aka
puppetmasters, test mysql setups etc running in KVM for the past couple
of years .. (yes I`m still using a lot of Xen in production
environments, but we've also been using KVM for a while already ..
1 replies - 2903 views - 11/30/11 by Kris Buytaert in Articles
Yesterday, Apple won two preliminary patents against HTC, which could be a huge blow to both Google and HTC products and could mean a ban on HTC and potentially other Android smartphones. Today, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced their support...
0 replies - 16262 views - 07/19/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
On Friday, Version 3.3 of both Lucene Core and Solr were made available by the Apache Lucene project. The new versions come only a month after 3.2, and include many new features and optimizations. Some of the highlights of the new Lucene features...
0 replies - 11680 views - 07/05/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
I am an experienced Java developer who has used various IDEs and prefer NetBeans IDE over all others by a long shot. I am also very fond of Maven as the tool to simplify and automate nearly every aspect of the development of my Java project throughout its...
12 replies - 41590 views - 06/18/11 by Farrukh Najmi in News
This blogpost goes into detail how on we leverage Vagrant, an open source tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments,
in our day to day work. We use it with a team of 7 people to integrate a
pretty complex application. To get...
0 replies - 8090 views - 05/25/11 by Patrick Debois in News
As a result of Oracle's strategy to merge HotSpot and JRockit into a single best-of-breed JVM, JRockit is now free for development and internal production use on general purpose computers. Use in external production and other non-general computers is...
0 replies - 19015 views - 05/18/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
This post sums up how to manually restore a partition backup create
by Clonezilla (using partclone) into a VMware virtual machine, which can
be then either executed or its (virtual) disk mounted. The difficult
points are “manual” and “partition...
0 replies - 4494 views - 02/09/11 by Jakub Holý in News
A shocker hit the wires today as Eric Schmidt announced on the Google blog that he would be stepping down as the search giant's CEO. And who will take the helm of the world's most powerful web technology company? None other than Larry Page, a co-founder...
0 replies - 11254 views - 01/21/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Eclipse Foundation is now taking nominations for the 2011 Eclipse Community Awards. The deadline is January 28, 2011. Categories for awards include Top Committer, Top Contributor [insert DZone's James Sugrue here ;-) ], Top Newcomer Evangelist, Most...
0 replies - 19182 views - 12/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The four JSRs behind Java 7 and Java 8 were recently approved by the Executive Committee. However, there was a good deal of discontent among members who voted for and against the JSRs. Apache kept its promise to vote against all of Oracle's proposed JSRs,...
0 replies - 22056 views - 12/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Oracle VM VirtualBox has reached version 3.2.12. The virtualization app for x86 hardware just received about 20 bugfixes fixing stability issues, 64-bit guest crashes on 32-bit hosts, and some out of memory issues. There are also some GUI updates and...
0 replies - 16562 views - 12/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
In case you missed it, Virtual Box 3.2.10 just had its release and it
adds support for Ubuntu 10.10 - another recently released technology.
Fedora 14 is still in beta, but Virtual Box has added support for that
distro as well. Along with these new...
3 replies - 4437 views - 10/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Oracle released another update for the 3.2.x VirtualBox line today. The latest release of the desktop virtualization application for x86 hardware includes various stability improvements and a number of changes. Today's version 3.2.8 improves upon the...
0 replies - 5485 views - 08/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Google announced that it would be rendering many upcoming features for Gmail in HTML5. Dragging and dropping files from the desktop into the browser will be just one new feature in Gmail's new standards-based update. Google will also leverage HTML5's...
0 replies - 11540 views - 06/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Sun's open source desktop virtualization application for x86 hardware, VirtualBox, is getting an extreme makeover under Oracle. With some slight re-branding and some experimental new features, Oracle released the first beta for VirtualBox 3.2. Today,...
1 replies - 8853 views - 04/29/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
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