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Mitch Pronschinske02/04/10
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Symbian Platform Now Fully Open Source

The world's most widely used smartphone operating system, Symbian, is now completely open source. The Symbian Foundation made the announcement this morning that the entire Symbian 3 platform's source code, which is the result of more than ten years of...

Mitch Pronschinske02/04/10
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Daily Dose - Jython Lead Developer Joins Sauce Labs

Jython Lead Developer Joins Sauce Labs

Mitch Pronschinske02/03/10
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Daily Dose - Facebook Open Sources PHP Innovations

Facebook Open Sources PHP Innovations

Mitch Pronschinske02/03/10
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Oracle and the Future of the JCP

It's been one week since Oracle laid out its roadmap for all things Sun, including the Java Community Process, and it seems that most developers are optimistic about the future of Java. In the webcast last week, Oracle said it wanted to make the JCP more...

Mitch Pronschinske02/02/10
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Geronimo Eclipse Plugin 2.2 Updates to Eclipse 3.5

Today the Apache Geronimo team released a new version of its Eclipse plugin. Version 2.2 of the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP) now supports the latest stable versions of Eclipse (3.5.x) and Geronimo Server (2.2). The highlights of this new plugin include...

Mitch Pronschinske02/02/10
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Makara's Unique Approach to Cloud App Management

A new kind of platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud arrives today from a startup company called Makara. Their product, the Makara Cloud Application Platform, is a self-service, self-managing web application capsule that provides...

Mitch Pronschinske02/02/10
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Daily Dose - Goojje: Google's Chinese Sister

Goojje: Google's Chinese Sister

Mitch Pronschinske02/01/10
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Eclipse 3.6 on the Home Stretch

The Eclipse developers just released the first Eclipse 3.6 milestone of the new year and they are on track for a final release in June. Eclipse 3.6 (codename: Helios) has reached milestone 5, which features new command line options, dynamic path variables,...

Mitch Pronschinske02/01/10
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Memory Leak Protection in Tomcat 7

The last time DZone spoke with Mark Thomas, a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource and committer for Apache Tomcat, he said that Tomcat has had a long history of memory leaks when reloading web applications. This topic could easily fill its own...

Mitch Pronschinske02/01/10
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Daily Dose - Will HTML5 Kill Flash?

Will HTML5 Kill Flash?

Mitch Pronschinske01/30/10
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Daily Dose - Quest for the One True iPad

Quest for the One True iPad

Mitch Pronschinske01/29/10
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Daily Dose - Google Go Joining GNU Compiler Collection

Google Go Joining GNU Compiler Collection The GNU Compiler Collection Steering committee says it will support Google Go in GCC 4.5 or later. Google's Ian Taylor will be the maintainer and GCC release managers will handle the integration of new code into...

Mitch Pronschinske01/28/10
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Scala 2.8 Improves Scala IDE

After many months of development, and a large number of bug fixes, the Scala Team has released the next version of their concise, JVM-based programming language. Scala 2.8 is a major release that includes a redesigned collection library, manifests for...

Mitch Pronschinske01/28/10
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Oracle's Roadmap for Sun Technologies

Oracle has laid out its strategy for integrating Sun's resources - Human and Technological - into their own company infrastructure. The company plans to invest $4.3 billion in R&D this year, and between last year's Oracle OpenWorld and now, the message...

Mitch Pronschinske01/28/10
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JBoss and eXo's "Ultimate Mashup Platform"

In September 2009, JBoss and eXo Platform announced that they'd been working together on the GateIn portal project. The GateIn portal is a merger of two projects that have been around for a while - JBoss Portal and eXo Portal. By taking significant code...