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Mitch Pronschinske01/19/10
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Daily Dose - The Next Yummy Version of Android is…

The Next Yummy Version of Android is…

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/10
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Will China or Russia Block the Oracle-Sun Deal?

With the European Commission expected to green-light the Oracle-Sun deal as early as this week, the future is looking bright for Oracle, right? Wrong. Last week, the Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) opened their own investigation into the...

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/10
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Daily Dose - Oracle to Cut 50% of Sun Workforce? Sun Says No

Oracle to Cut 50% of Sun Workforce? Sun Says NoLast week, USB analyst Brent Thill predicted that Oracle would cut some 13,800 jobs at Sun if the merger is completed. Thill said the cuts would be necessary for Oracle to have $1.5 billion in non-GAAP...

Mitch Pronschinske01/15/10
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Daily Dose - Russia Now Stands Between Oracle and Sun

Russia Now Stands Between Oracle and Sun

Mitch Pronschinske01/15/10
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Daily Dose - Scam Charity Sites Pop up in the Wake of the Haiti Earthquake

Scam Charity Sites Pop up in the Wake of the Haiti Earthquake

Mitch Pronschinske01/14/10
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Grid Engine an Early Supporter of Hadoop Apps

Sun Microsystem's Grid Engine was recently updated with plenty of new features, including industry first they say. Grid Engine 6.2 update 5 (SGE 6.2u5) just became the first workload manager with direct support for Apache Hadoop applications, said Dan...

Mitch Pronschinske01/14/10
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JavaFX Composer a Big Step for JavaFX?

Released for early access back in December, the JavaFX Composer is a new visual editor plugin for NetBeans 6.8 (similar to Project Matisse for Swing) that uses components in the JavaFX SDK. DZone recently interviewed the JavaFX Tools QA Team lead at Sun...

Mitch Pronschinske01/14/10
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Daily Dose - SpringSource Hurts MyEclipse's Feelings

SpringSource Hurts MyEclipse's Feelings

Mitch Pronschinske01/13/10
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Eclipse Could Lead the OSGi Movement with dmServer

VMWare's SpringSource recently made two major announcements regarding its OSGi based Java application server. First, they announced the arrival of the 2.0 version with a new shell and Admin Console. Spring's second, more pivotal announcement, revealed...

Mitch Pronschinske01/13/10
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Daily Dose - Facebook Joins Apache's Sponsors

Facebook Joins Apache's Sponsors Facebook officially joined Apache's roster of sponsors yesterday. Facebook has contributed to Apache projects such as Hive (Hadoop subproject), Thrift, and Cassandra. The social networking giant recently became a Gold...

Mitch Pronschinske01/13/10
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Apache Takes Newcomers Under its Wing

In an effort to centralize developer resources and help newcomers to open source, the Apache Software Foundation recently launched the Community Developer project. So far, the project includes plans for a mentoring program, a "Newbie FAQ", and...

Mitch Pronschinske01/12/10
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Coder's Game: The Queue ICPC Challenge Problem

The online battle for coding supremacy is ready to begin. The 2010 Queue ICPC Challenge, which begins this week, is a programming competition based on the ACM-ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Competition) Challenge problem. This challenge,...

Mitch Pronschinske01/12/10
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Terracotta 3.2 and Quartz EX Unleashed

Terracotta is keeping its foot on the gas pedal in 2010. Just two months after the acquisition of Quartz, Terracotta announced today the immediate availability of an integrated product. Quartz EX is a new version of the Quartz Java job scheduler that is...

Mitch Pronschinske01/11/10
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Daily Dose - Mozilla Shifting Extensions to Jetpack and Personas

Mozilla Shifting Extensions to Jetpack and Personas

Mitch Pronschinske01/11/10
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Popular Languages of 2009

The TIOBE index for 2009 says that Google's new Go programming language experienced more growth in popularity than any other language in 2009. The growth is quite remarkable given that the language became available late in the year. Is it all just hype? ...