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Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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VMware Hires Key NoSQL Developer

The VMware executive blog recently announced the hiring of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the key developer for Redis, a NoSQL database (Key Value/Tuple Store).  VMware believes Redis can help evolve their cloud and virtualization technologies.  Sanfilippo was...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Daily Dose - XML Co-Inventor Joins Android Team; Scorns Apple

Tech blogger and XML co-inventor, Tim Bray, recently posted about his new job with Google's Android development team. In his blog, which is now a "No-Evil Zone", Bray talked about his agreement with the Google philosophy as opposed to the Apple's...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Helios Adds More Features

Eclipse 3.6, codenamed Helios, has reached Milestone 6.  The release features new platform APIs and changes to the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE).  Milestone 7 will be the last milestone release for Eclipse 3.6.  That release is scheduled for May...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Daily Dose - Apple Doesn't Win Case Against Users of "i"

An Australian trademarks office blocked Apple's actions to stop a small company from trademarking "DOPi" as a name for its laptop bags and cases for Apple devices.  You may notice that DOPi is iPod spelled backwards, so that's why Apple thought the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Arquillian in Action; New Features Coming Soon

Java developers finally have a chance to get their hands on a powerful open source JEE testing tool from JBoss.  Arquillian is an extension for testing frameworks such as JUnit and TestNG that can be used to validate the behavior of managed beans, enterprise...

Mitch Pronschinske03/13/10
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Daily Dose - ASP.NET MVC 2 Has Arrived

Microsoft just released the second major version of ASP.NET MVC.  An alternative to HTML abstraction development in ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC 2 is used in cases where control over the HTML and precise layer separation are more important than...

Mitch Pronschinske03/12/10
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Daily Dose - Simon Phipps Elected to OSI Board of Directors

Just a few days after leaving Oracle, Simon Phipps, who served as the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun for nearly ten years, has been elected to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors.  Phipps intends to help the organization become more active...

Mitch Pronschinske03/11/10
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Improving the Testability of Java EE With Arquillian; 1.0.0 Alpha 1 Released

At Devoxx '09, JBoss introduced a framework that could help improve the testability of Java EE and JBoss AS.  Integration testing is important in Java EE because business components often interact with the container's resources or sub-system and many...

Mitch Pronschinske03/11/10
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Opening the JBoss Toolbox 3.1

JBoss just wrapped up it's work on JBoss Tools 3.1 with a final release.  The umbrella project includes Eclipse plugins for JBoss AS, Hibernate, Drools, jBPM, JSF, (X)HTML, Seam, Smooks, JBoss ESB, JBoss Portal, and more.  JBoss Tools 3.1 will require...

Mitch Pronschinske03/11/10
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Daily Dose - Schwartz: Apple and Microsoft Tried to Sue Me Too!

Johnathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun recently said what he couldn't say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when he was with the company.  "I feel for Google," said Schwartz, "Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too."  Jobs called Schwartz...

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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Java Clojure Interop: Integrating Clojure into Your Java Project

It's easier to wrap an existing piece of Java code in Clojure than it is to do the inverse, but because Clojure is implemented as a Java class library, it's also relatively simple to embed Clojure in your Java applications, load code, and call functions. ...

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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JIRA Studio Now Integrated with Google Apps

Atlassian currently is in the process of migrating their employees from Zimbra to Google Apps to reflect their recent move to integrate JIRA Studio, their hosted SDL package, with the Google Apps suite.  With the relaunch of the Google Apps Marketplace, JIRA...

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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Cassandra Usurping MySQL on Twitter

One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year.  Some more details have finally surfaced about this quiet transition from a MySQL + Memcached system to Cassandra.  The MyNoSQL blog recently interviewed...

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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Titanium 1.0 - Native Web Apps Have Arrived

Today is a major milestone in the evolution of the web as an open development platform.  Appcelerator's newly unveiled Titanium 1.0 framework lets web developers build native applications for the iPhone and Android phones using nothing but web...

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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Daily Dose - Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun

Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun