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Mitch Pronschinske02/23/10
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The 10 Keys to a Successful Web App

Think of your favorite web applications. The ones that you keep going back to again and again. Even the ones that you are willing to pay for. Chances are, it was fast, clean, instantly useful, and easy to find. Along with these main features, there...

Mitch Pronschinske02/23/10
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Mobile OS Rankings for 2009

Although worldwide mobile phone sales had about a one-percent decline in 2009 according to Gartner, the year ended on a positive note with an 8.3% increase compared to Q4 of 2008. A survey of the worldwide mobile OS market share shows Symbian maintaining...

Mitch Pronschinske02/23/10
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15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) -- developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects -- today announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server.The ASF's first project became the world's most popular Web server software within...

Mitch Pronschinske02/23/10
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Open Source NoSQL Databases

For almost a year now, the idea of "NoSQL" has been spreading due to the demand for relational database alternatives. Maybe the biggest motivation behind NoSQL is scalability. Relational databases don't lend themselves well to the kind of...

Mitch Pronschinske02/23/10
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Daily Dose - .NET Reflector Launches Commercial Upgrade

.NET Reflector Launches Commercial Upgrade

Mitch Pronschinske02/22/10
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Cassandra NoSQL Database an Apache Top Level Project

After Facebook made the Cassandra project open source in 2008, the highly scalable, non-relational distributed database proved its mettle at other companies including Cisco, Digg, and Rackspace. Now the well-known NoSQL database has proven itself as an...

Mitch Pronschinske02/22/10
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Daily Dose - Google Searches Don't Hurt Your IQ

Google Searches Don't Hurt Your IQ

Mitch Pronschinske02/22/10
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Concurrent Programming in Groovy

It seems that the Groovy has a project for just about anything. That's one of the reasons why the language is so popular. The GPars library is an especially useful project in this new era of mult-core processors and concurrent programming. Formerly...

Mitch Pronschinske02/20/10
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Daily Dose - Symbian Needs Volunteers

Symbian Needs Volunteers

Mitch Pronschinske02/19/10
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US Federal Judge Affirms Key FOSS Developer Rights

A crucial battle over the legal provisions for free and open source software in the US has finally ended today. Following a recent ruling by a US Federal District Court judge in favor of several key FOSS developer rights, a settlement was reached. The...

Mitch Pronschinske02/19/10
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Resin and the Web Profile are Meant for Each Other

'Lightweight' is the term that Caucho's Resin developers live by. You won't commonly see application server developers who write low level facilities like bytecode analyzers in order to minimize their memory footprint, but Caucho does. As one of the few...

Mitch Pronschinske02/18/10
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Daily Dose - Google Getting Sued Over Buzz

Google Getting Sued Over Buzz

Mitch Pronschinske02/18/10
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Subversion Graduates: Only 3 Months in the Apache Incubator

In a short post on the Subversion Community website, the project developers announced the end of Subversion and the beginning of Apache Subversion. They say that the Apache Software Foundation's Board of Directors approved a resolution yesterday to end...

Mitch Pronschinske02/18/10
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RichFaces 3.3.3 Begins Support for JSF 2.0

The JBoss component library for Java Server Faces, RichFaces, is swiftly approaching a final release for version 3.3.3 with the availability of CR1. The primary new feature of this release is the beginning of support for the JSF 2.0 spec, which is part of...

Mitch Pronschinske02/18/10
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Clerezza: An Apache Project for the Semantic Web

More businesses are realizing the value of Semantic Web development for Semantic SEO and marketing, enterprise BI, and richer data systems. Three months ago, a new project entered the Apache incubator that can remove many of the difficulties associated with...