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Mitch Pronschinske08/25/10
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Daily Dose - RabbitMQ 2.0 Upgrades to AMQP 0.9.1

The RabbitMQ messaging system, which was recently be acquired by VMware's SpringSource, has reached version 2.0. The AMQP-based system has a new persister that's only bound by disk capacity and a server that optimizes memory usage - giving RabbitMQ more...

Mitch Pronschinske08/24/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe's McAllister Speaks Out Against Oracle

In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or so," in Silicon Valley. McAllister criticized Oracle's handling of OpenSolaris and its recent...

Mitch Pronschinske08/23/10
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Daily Dose - Why Bundle Flash with Chrome? ..Faster Security Patches

The SecBrowsing blog noted a major change in the speed at which users updated their Flash version during the last patch. The blog measured the number of visitors using Chrome with an updated version of Flash over the span of a couple weeks. For the June...

Mitch Pronschinske08/22/10
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DZone Daily Dose - WebKit Gains MathML Support

Writing mathematical formulas on web pages just got easier if your page is being read by a WebKit browser such as Chrome or Safari. The WebKit developers are now releasing nightly builds that support the MathML XML language, which allows you to type in...

Mitch Pronschinske08/20/10
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DZone Daily Dose - Hibernate 3.5.5 Deprecates CGLIB Support

A decent amount of uproar was generated this week when JBoss developers indicated that the latest stable release of Hibernate (3.5.5) would have deprecated support for CGLIB as a bytecode provider. Developers can still use CGLIB as the bytecode provider,...

Mitch Pronschinske08/19/10
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Daily Dose - Spring 3.0.4 Supports Ehcache 2.2, EclipseLink 2.1, and More

The 3.0.4 update to Spring includes 80 different bugfixes and enhancements. Some highlights include support for updated third-party tools like Hibernate Core 3.6, Hibernate Validator 4.1, EclipseLink 2.1, and Ehcache 2.2. There are also several...

Mitch Pronschinske08/18/10
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Daily Dose - iPad Rival Running Chrome OS Arriving in November?

Several reports are saying that the Chrome operating system will be here by the end of November. That's because on November 26th, Google plans to release a Chrome OS-based tablet to compete with the iPad's resounding success. Google has recruited industry...

Mitch Pronschinske08/17/10
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Daily Dose - Your Passwords Need to be Longer

Due to the increasing performance unlocked by GPUs, password cracking software will soon be able to discover your 7-10 character password without a problem (special symbols won't make a difference). Richard Boyd, from the Georgia Tech Research Institute,...

Mitch Pronschinske08/16/10
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Daily Dose - Vim Increases Vigor

Two years have passed since the release of Vim 7.2, and today version 7.3 is here with a few improvements, but nothing major. Vim has remained a consistently solid editor with little need for more features. However, this release does feature new...

Mitch Pronschinske08/15/10
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Daily Dose - Google to Oracle: 'Bring it'

In a statement sent out to the media late last week, Google announced its intentions to defend open source and protect Android (and the Dalvik JVM) against the "baseless" suit that Oracle has brought against it. Google has called Oracle's...

Mitch Pronschinske08/13/10
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Daily Dose - Leaked Memo Suggests an End to OpenSolaris

A blogger has leaked what is believed to be an internal Oracle memo about the future of OpenSolaris and Solaris 11. The key quote from the memo states: "We will not release any other binary distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris...

Mitch Pronschinske08/12/10
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Daily Dose - Schwartz Gets a New Job

He warned us about Oracle. Now Johnathan Schwartz has washed his hands of it and gotten his first job after leaving his last position as the CEO of Sun Microsystems. Schwartz has joined the board of Taleo, a vendor of cloud-based talent management...

Mitch Pronschinske08/11/10
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Daily Dose - First Trojan Pierces the Walls of Android

According to a security firm, the first Trojan virus has infected Android phones this month. Once the normal looking application installs, it starts texting premium rate phone numbers and criminals actually end up collecting the charges to the victims'...

Mitch Pronschinske08/10/10
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Tasktop's New Agile Planner for Eclipse

You probably know about Tasktop Pro's 'Task-Driven' interface, which is a boon to developers. The most recent version of Tasktop Pro was released in June during the Eclipse Helios GA announcement. Today, Tasktop Technologies announced the Tasktop Agile...

Mitch Pronschinske08/10/10
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Daily Dose - Juicy Details About Scala 2.9

It seems that the Scala community is perfectly willing to convert their projects to the new 2.8 binaries (Scala 2.8, released last month, was not binary compatible with 2.7). Over 50% of more than 500 projects have already been converted. After a bugfix...