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Mitch Pronschinske07/23/10
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Daily Dose - PHP Language Update

The next version of PHP 5 has been released with over 100 bugfixes, some of which are security related. PHP 5.3.3 may owe some of these bugfixes to the PHP Month of Security in May, which has been run by Stefan Esser for three years. In PHP 5.3.3, methods...

Mitch Pronschinske07/22/10
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Daily Dose - Hibernate 3.5.4 and 3.6 Beta 1 Released in Tandem

JBoss delivered the final version of its Hibernate 3.5.4 maintenance release this week along with the first beta of 3.6, which adds some new features. First of all, 3.6 will drop support for JDK 1.4. It will also merge some modules into the core...

Mitch Pronschinske07/22/10
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JBoss Tools Targets Helios and Tycho Builds

The first milestone release of JBoss Tools 3.2 is the first version to target the recently finalized Eclipse 3.6 platform. JBoss has also made Java 5 required for the use of JBoss tools 3.2. This release will be the first to use Maven with the Tycho...

Mitch Pronschinske07/21/10
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Daily Dose - Yet Another Flash Player Released

The newly released Lightspark 0.4.2 is another alternative implementation of the Flash Player (others include Smokescreen and Gordon) that is designed to be efficient on current hardware. Changes in this release include plugin support for Chrome, and...

Mitch Pronschinske07/20/10
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Daily Dose - RichFaces On the Road to Full JSF 2.0

The first of JBoss RichFaces 4.0's monthly milestones was released this week. RichFaces 4.0 is going to provide full support for the Java EE 6 JSF 2.0 specification, while the current version, 3.3.3, has partial JSF 2.0 support and partial backwards...

Mitch Pronschinske07/19/10
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Daily Dose - Apache Elects New Board

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...

Mitch Pronschinske07/18/10
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Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 Beefs Up Add-on Features

Spring Roo 1.1 M2 and STS 2.3.3 M2 were simultaneously released this week with hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements since milestone one. Spring Roo 1.1 M2 has increased its performance by a factor of three and gained better GWT support by eliminating the...

Mitch Pronschinske07/16/10
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Daily Dose - Can We Stop Talking About the iPhone Antenna Now?

In this week's edition of 'Media Frenzy Over Basically Nothing,' Apple finally called a press conference to end all the crazy talk about possible recalls and "Antennagate". Apple CEO Steve Jobs threw up some stats during their presentation showing...

Mitch Pronschinske07/15/10
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Daily Dose - Droid X Shuts Down If You Hack It

The Motorola Droid X phone was released this week, but a lot of reports said that hacking the phone would break the hardware as a secuity measure in the eFuse tampering-countermeasure system. In fact, Engadget found that the phone just shuts down until you...

Mitch Pronschinske07/14/10
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Daily Dose - Scala 2.8 Blasts Off

Stick a fork in it - Scala 2.8 is done. The GA release hit this morning with sweeping changes that include a revamped collection library, named and default arguments, optimized array handling, and more. See the full list of features on Javalobby. Note...

Mitch Pronschinske07/13/10
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Daily Dose - Avatar… No, Not The Movie

The test automation vendor Automation Anywhere really liked the movie "Avatar". They liked it so much that it inspired the creation of their newest utility for their recently-launched Testing Anywhere 6.5 product. DZone asked Automation Anywhere...

Mitch Pronschinske07/12/10
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Daily Dose - In the Future, Twelve Year Olds Will Write Your Android App

You heard me. Along with its announcement of the Google App Inventor for Android, Google also mentioned that the free software had been tested on nursing students, university undergrads (non-CS majors), high school girls, and sixth graders. That means...

Mitch Pronschinske07/11/10
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Daily Dose - More XML Graphics Components from Apache

The weekend release of Apache XML Graphics Commons 1.4 arrives with more reusable components. This release adds an option to generate smaller PostScript files and adds support for AdobeStardardCyrillic encoding. 1.4 also contains support for...

Mitch Pronschinske07/09/10
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Daily Dose - Java Skills in Higher Demand than IT Security

According to a Dice.com survey of hiring managers, Java skills were harder to find than IT security skills. In previous surveys, security specialists were harder to come by. Virtualization jobs have been easier to fill, according to the new numbers. ...

Mitch Pronschinske07/08/10
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Daily Dose - Java Apps Now Work on Symbian

Symbian's Product Dev Kit 3.0 adds the mobile runtime for Java applications (JRT) from Nokia this week, meaning developers can now write Java applications for the Symbian OS. This week, Symbian also announced that this was the first platform kit that was...