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Mitch Pronschinske01/28/10
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Daily Dose - Is the iPad Everything We Thought it Would Be?

Is the iPad Everything We Thought it Would Be?

Mitch Pronschinske01/27/10
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JavaOne Lives!

It's alive! After several months of rumors predicting its death, JavaOne has risen from the grave and is set to debut once again in September. Oracle President Charles Phillips made the announcement at the Oracle-Sun webcast this afternoon. JavaOne 2010...

Mitch Pronschinske01/27/10
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Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 Fully Compliant with JCR 2.0

The Apache Jackrabbit project is now a fully conforming and production-ready implementation of the Java Content Repository 2.0 API with the release of version 2.0 today. After releasing the first alpha version of Jackrabbit 2.0 in June 2009, the Jackrabbit...

Mitch Pronschinske01/27/10
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Daily Dose - SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some

SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some

Mitch Pronschinske01/26/10
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Dose - Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK Released... Wait, No! I Take it Back!

Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK Released... Wait, No! I Take it Back!

Mitch Pronschinske01/26/10
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The Best Groovy Modules You Might Not Know About

It's no secret that Groovy and its many related goodies are quite popular, especially at DZone where the announcement of Groovy 1.7 got 137 up votes, making it the highest rated DZone link ever! Plenty of people have heard about the Groovy-based frameworks...

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/10
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Daily Dose - Google Founders to Cede Control of the Company

Google Founders to Cede Control of the Company Sergey Brin and Larry Page have recently made an SEC filing for their intentions to sell a large portion of their Google stocks. The Google founders will sell 5 million shares each, but they'll still own...

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/10
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Jenabean: Bridging the Gap Between Java Objects and the Semantic Web

Skeptics have said that the semantic web would be too difficult for people to understand or exploit, but in the last few years, the number of enabling technologies for the semantic web has grown significantly. The W3C has drafted standards like RDF...

Mitch Pronschinske01/23/10
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Daily Dose - YouTube and Vimeo Foster HTML5 Escalation

YouTube and Vimeo Foster HTML5 Escalation

Mitch Pronschinske01/22/10
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Daily Dose - Project Darwin Beta is Evolving

Project Darwin Beta is Evolving

Mitch Pronschinske01/21/10
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EU Gives Larry the Go Ahead

Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems received the seal of approval from the European Commission this week following Oracle CEO Larry Elllison's diplomatic efforts in December.

Mitch Pronschinske01/21/10
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10 Scala Programming Pitfalls

Scala is great for highly scalable, component-based applications that support concurrency and distribution. It leverages aspects of object-oriented and functional programming. This JVM-based language gained most of its clout when it was announced that...

Mitch Pronschinske01/21/10
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Daily Dose - Eclipse Helps Mac Users Bypass Slow JVM Release Cycle

Eclipse Helps Mac Users Bypass Slow JVM Release Cycle

Mitch Pronschinske01/20/10
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Daily Dose - IBM has the Most Patents, but Microsoft's Could be Worth More

IBM has the Most Patents, but Microsoft's Could be Worth More

Mitch Pronschinske01/19/10
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Pivot a Top Project: Ready to Challenge Flex, Silverlight, and JavaFX

Nearly a year after entering the Apache Incubator, the Pivot project officially graduated to a top-level Apache project. The ASF board passed the resolution for graduation in December and their announcement today makes it official. Pivot is a Java-based...