The brilliant engineers and scientists over at Cyberdyne Systems IBM
introduced the "first computing core that combines digital 'neurons' and
on-chip 'synapses' in working silicon." The chip demonstrates "synaptic
plasticity", which...
2 replies - 19977 views - 08/18/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
On Friday, the second version of the Couchbase Server was revealed. The new server should "be easy to install and manage, and will bring new indexing and query support; the combination of technologies offers the lowest latency, highest throughput NoSQL...
0 replies - 11168 views - 07/31/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Less than a week after Apple introduced the iCloud service at the WWDC, Arizona-based iCloud Communications filed a trademark infringement suit against them. iCloud Communications has been involved in "computer and electronic data transmission"...
0 replies - 8907 views - 06/12/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
The Oracle VM VirtualBox has reached version 3.2.12. The virtualization app for x86 hardware just received about 20 bugfixes fixing stability issues, 64-bit guest crashes on 32-bit hosts, and some out of memory issues. There are also some GUI updates and...
0 replies - 16551 views - 12/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Unless you've been living under a rock the past few weeks, you'll no doubt be aware of the moves Oracle have made. As a developer though, do you think it's done much to harm A) the industry you work in, B) your job prospects and C) the future of the language?...
3 replies - 9300 views - 10/15/10 by Alex Collins in Articles
This week IBM announced that it will be joining Oracle in the OpenJDK and subsequently abandoing the Apache Harmony project. While some are excited about the contributions that IBM will bring to the OpenJDK class libraries (IBM probably won't contribute to...
16 replies - 6679 views - 10/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Darryl Taft wasn't the only one who got an interview with the Father of Java this week. The authors of the Basement Coders blog also got Gosling to do a podcast with them. Although the sound quality is pretty low, you can find some great quotes from the...
0 replies - 16832 views - 09/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Yet another great developer has left Oracle this week. Bryan Cantrill, the co-inventor of DTrace, gave a heartfelt farewell to the company he joined in 1996. In his praise of the pre-Oracle Sun Microsystems, Cantrill also has a few well-veiled criticisms...
2 replies - 11932 views - 07/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
At today's annual ASF members meeting, the attendees voted for the next board of directors. Returning board members include Doug Cutting, Roy T. Fielding, Shane Curcuru, Greg Stein, and Jim Jagielski the chairman. New members include Bertrand Delacretaz...
2 replies - 10777 views - 07/19/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Real time alerts are a wonderful convenience in today's native apps, but now the W3C wants to bring this functionality to web apps. This week they formed a Web Notification Working Group to develop a web standard for Push Notifications. The proposal...
0 replies - 11354 views - 07/01/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0 is now GA & enables productivity through a simplified component model and delivers enhanced performance through new relational database access...
0 replies - 901 views - 06/12/10 by Yakura Coffee in Announcements
For years, IBM has been at the top of the server game, but a new study by Gartner says that HP is the new leader in server revenues. In Q1 of 2010 HP recorded $3.39 billion in revenue - IBM… $3.05 billion. Ten years ago when HP acquired Compaq, the...
0 replies - 11117 views - 05/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
This week, Clang++, the C++ front-end compiler for the LLVM, had its first successful Boost regression test run. Boost is a collection of open source, peer-reviewed C++ libraries, and it's known for using bleeding-edge C++ techniques (such as preprocessor...
1 replies - 11228 views - 05/21/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
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Shape the Future.. Welcome to
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0 replies - 854 views - 04/27/10 by Yakura Coffee in Announcements
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