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Mitch Pronschinske12/06/10
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Daily Dose - The Silverlight 5 Plan

At Microsoft's developer-focused Silverlight Firestarter event, they laid out the roadmap for the next version of Silverlight - an RIA platform that is now taking a slightly different direction. Silverlight 5 will include more than 40 new features such as...

Mitch Pronschinske12/04/10
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Daily Dose - Parallel Web App Deployments in Tomcat 7.0.5 Beta

Apache committers have announced the first beta for the next iteration of Tomcat, version 7.0.5. As always, the memory leak reductions continue and developers will also get to see a new welcome page. A big new feature is added support for parallel...

Mitch Pronschinske12/03/10
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Daily Dose - VirtualBox Update from Oracle

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...

Mitch Pronschinske12/02/10
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Daily Dose - Still Waiting for the Chrome Web Store

Whatever happened to that October release planned for the Chrome web app store? It hit a snag apparently, but now there are signs that Google may have it ready in time for a December release, just ahead of Chrome OS. TechCrunch made the observation that...

Mitch Pronschinske12/01/10
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Daily Dose - Red Hat Acquires Makara

With their Apache-licensed DeltaCloud project and now with today's acquisition of a Cloud tech startup called Makara, RedHat is building a broad foundation for its position in the PaaS sphere. I wrote about the emergence of Makara early this year and I was...

Mitch Pronschinske11/30/10
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Daily Dose - Chrome OS Pushed to 2011

While Google originally intended to have Chrome OS-based netbooks ready by the holiday season, the manufacturers are now saying that we won't be seeing Chrome OS for consumers until 2011. Although Google might be able to spin up a beta or developer preview...

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/10
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Daily Dose - Jena Semantic Web Framework Joins Apache Incubator

The Jena project is a Java web framework that implements W3C recommendations from the RDF and SPARQL specifications. Recently this project was accepted into the Apache Incubator and hopes to gain broader support in the Java community. Jena contains APIs...

Mitch Pronschinske11/26/10
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Daily Dose - Someone Finally Buys Novell

Novell has finally found a buyer for every sector of its business this week. While many speculated that VMware was going to take the SUSE Linux division of Novell, it turns out that Attachmate is the main buyer and they will own this technology. The price...

Mitch Pronschinske11/24/10
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Daily Dose - Eclipse Believes There is Hope for Java 8

Last month, Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich stated his reservations about the Jigsaw brand of modularity in Java 8. It is now a surprise that Eclipse is supporting the new JSR for Java 8. It was originally thought that the Jigsaw modularity...

Mitch Pronschinske11/23/10
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Daily Dose - NetBeans 7 Starts Living Up To Its Name

A new beta release of NetBeans 7.0 is the first to provide JDK 7 support, allowing developers to choose Java 7 (still in development) as their target platform in the platform manager. This means NetBeans 7 users can start experimenting with things like...

Mitch Pronschinske11/22/10
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Daily Dose - Spring Mobile and Spring Android Go Live

SpringSource just announced two new projects to aid Spring users in mobile application development. The first is Spring Mobile, which provides extensions to Spring MVC to streamline the development of web apps that work across multiple mobile operating...

Mitch Pronschinske11/19/10
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Daily Dose - U.S. Dept. of Justice Receives Complaint About Oracle Tactics

"Oracle’s position appears to be the most onerous and draconian of any major hardware manufacturer," claims Claudia Betzner, the executive director of the US Service Industry Association (SIA). That was a quote from the SIA's recent letter to...

Mitch Pronschinske11/18/10
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Daily Dose - Bob Lee Won't Support the Java SE "Charade"

This week, Bob Lee, who is best known for leading JSR-330 (Dependency Injection for Java) and creating Guice, declined an invitation to participate in the Java SE 7 and 8 expert groups. The decision was tough, but he made it in response to Oracle applying...

Mitch Pronschinske11/17/10
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Daily Dose - Translating the PR-Speak in Oracle's Reply to the ASF

Over the last two days the back-and-forth over TCKs continued between Apache and Oracle. Stephen Colebourne, a certified Java Champion, knows this issue very well and was "amused" that Oracle would describe their TCK distribution terms as...

Mitch Pronschinske11/15/10
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Daily Dose - Amazon Brings GPU Instances to Cloud Infrastructure Services

Amazon's eleventh EC2 instance type was unveiled this week, and it's quite similar to their Cluster Compute Instance. However, this instance harnesses the high-level computing power of the GPU. The new Cluster GPU instances should provide the high...