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Mitch Pronschinske04/29/10
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VirtualBox 3.2 Beta - New Features and Re-Branding

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,...

Mitch Pronschinske04/28/10
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi Talks Hudson

This week Hudson creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi introduced his new startup, InfraDNA, which provides support and consulting for the Hudson Continuous Integration system. After nine years of employment, Kawaguchi left Oracle earlier this month in order to start his...

Mitch Pronschinske04/28/10
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Daily Dose - HP to Buy Palm

Palm has been struggling to find a company willing to buy them out ever since their quarterly sales and stock prices plummeted. Now Hewlett-Packard has announced its willingness to buy Palm and its struggling smartphones - the price tag: $1.2 billion, which...

Mitch Pronschinske04/28/10
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Major LLVM Release!

After a solid six months of development, the next version of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) compiler infrastructure is live and ready to download. The new release showcases core infrastructure improvements along with better debug information and code...

Mitch Pronschinske04/28/10
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Android is Getting Flash 10.1, Firefox, and Infringement Accusations from Microsoft

There's a ton of news surrounding the Android platform today. The most concerning story centers around the public statements by a Microsoft representative claiming that the open source Android OS infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property, according to...

Mitch Pronschinske04/27/10
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Daily Dose - Hadoop is Safe From Google's MapReduce Patent

Google has just granted a patent license to the Apache Hadoop distributed computing framework, which uses a MapReduce process similar to Google's recently patented version of MapReduce ("System and method for efficient large-scale data pr

Mitch Pronschinske04/27/10
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A Guide to Maven 3 Beta

In just over six years, Apache Maven has become one of the most coveted tools for project build and reporting management. It's been five years since the release of Maven 2 and now the Maven committers have released the next landmark version of the...

Mitch Pronschinske04/27/10
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Spring and VMware Bring Enterprise Java to Force.com

The early popularity of scripting and online applications caused many of the first PaaS clouds, such as Heroku, Engine Yard, and Microsoft offerings, to be built for Ruby, .Net, and PHP developers. Slowly but surely however, Java is approaching its time in...

Mitch Pronschinske04/27/10
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Apache Cassandra Gets Commercial Support

The data storage solution for Facebook, Twitter, and Digg, and the clear leader in DZone's NoSQL Poll, Apache Cassandra, is now commercially supported. The new startup providing the support, Riptano, is founded by Matt Pfeil and Jonathan Ellis - former...

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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Daily Dose - A Farewell to Floppy Disks

Sony announced that they will stop selling floppy discs this year, making them the final manufacturer to halt their production. You may not believe it, but even up until 2008, the company could still sell 8.5 million floppy disks just in Japan. Now demand...

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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Elegant Async in Errai

If you haven't heard of the Errai framework, you really need to check out our interview with Mike Brock, the project lead at JBoss. A brief introduction - Errai is a fusion of Message-Oriented Programming, RPC, and Push Messaging based on GWT. The...

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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MyFaces Aligns With the JSF 2.0 Standard

The Apache MyFaces 2.0 Final was just released with support for Java Server Faces 2.0 (JSR 314). This release comes hot on the heels of RichFaces 3.3.3, which also implements a partial version of JSF 2.0 while offering backward compatibility with JSF 1.2. ...

Mitch Pronschinske04/25/10
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Terracotta and MuleSoft Scale Tcat Servers; Ehcache 2.1 Beta Adds JPA

Last week, Terracotta and MuleSoft held a joint web seminar titled "Manage and scale your web applications on Apache Tomcat." The seminar walked through how Terracotta's server and Mulesoft's Tcat server can be combined to drop-in and scale Tomcat...

Mitch Pronschinske04/25/10
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Daily Dose - Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates

Stats from androlib.com show that the Android Marketplace has surpassed 50k Apps, and app production has been accelerating. In December there were around 4,000 new Android apps. Each of the last two months have seen over 8,000 new apps accepted into the...

Mitch Pronschinske04/23/10
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Daily Dose - Palm Software Lead's Last Day

Yesterday was the last day for Michael Abbot, the head of Palm's software and services team. The news comes as no surprise since Palm has been struggling to stay afloat or possibly get bought out now that their stock is declining. Palm did however, keep...