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Mitch Pronschinske03/22/10
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Maven Studio Announced, Oracle Commissions Sonatype For Java.net Migration

At EclipseCon this week, Jason van Zyl, the founder of Sonatype and the Apache Maven project, is unveiling the first product in Maven Enterprise Suite, a series of Maven enterprise tools to be released this year.  The new product, Maven Studio for Eclipse,...

Mitch Pronschinske03/22/10
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Daily Dose - EU Ballot Causing a Drop in IE Usage

Since the browser ballot, which was mandated by European regulators, was implemented for Windows users, the market share for Internet Explorer has been falling.  IE usage has dropped 2.5% in France, 1.3% in Italy, and 1% in the UK.  In contrast, Opera, the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/22/10
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Red Hat Releases Major Updates to its Middleware Portfolio

Today at EclipseCon, Red Hat released JBoss Developer Studio 3.0 and JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0.  The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (JESP) 5.0 includes upgrades to the JBoss ESB, Messaging, and other SOA tools.  JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) 3.0...

Mitch Pronschinske03/21/10
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Daily Dose - Ubuntu "Lucid Lynx" Beta 1 on the Prowl

Ubuntu LTS 10.04 (aka Lucid Lynx) has just reached beta 1.  The beta comes with a new look for the operating system and is based on the 2.6.32.9 Linux kernel.  The depreciated HAL package has been removed for faster booting and there is built-in social...

Mitch Pronschinske03/21/10
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Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, CF Builder, and Flash Social Released En Masse

After several months in beta, a host of Flash Platform technologies were released today in their production-ready versions.  The releases include version 4 of the Flex Framework, Flash Builder 4 (previously named Flex Builder), the brand new ColdFusion...

Mitch Pronschinske03/19/10
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Daily Dose - Hibernate Migrates to JBoss Community

JBoss has just finished migrating Hibernate.org to the JBoss Community portal, where many other JBoss projects are housed.  The project pages have been transferred to the Magnolia instance and the community wiki is now on the Clearspace instance.  Aside...

Mitch Pronschinske03/18/10
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Daily Dose - HTC Prepares to Defend Itself Against Apple

Taiwanese handset maker, HTC, released a statement listing all the "firsts" that they achieved in mobile device manufacturing as a response to Apple's claim that HTC is stealing their ideas (and the pending lawsuit).  "We feel confident in our...

Mitch Pronschinske03/17/10
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Daily Dose - Gosling Has Faith in Oracle, Not the JCP

In his first public address since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, Java creator James Gosling assured developers that Java was in good hands with Oracle.  Gosling, however, did not have nice things to say about the Java Community Process.  "It's just...

Mitch Pronschinske03/16/10
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Daily Dose - IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees

IBM has recently stopped providing breakouts of the US employee numbers in its annual report.  The company has shown steady hiring outside of the US, especially in India, but the US workforce has been declining.  US policymakers fear that IBMs hiding of...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Daily Dose - XML Co-Inventor Joins Android Team; Scorns Apple

Tech blogger and XML co-inventor, Tim Bray, recently posted about his new job with Google's Android development team. In his blog, which is now a "No-Evil Zone", Bray talked about his agreement with the Google philosophy as opposed to the Apple's...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Helios Adds More Features

Eclipse 3.6, codenamed Helios, has reached Milestone 6.  The release features new platform APIs and changes to the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE).  Milestone 7 will be the last milestone release for Eclipse 3.6.  That release is scheduled for May...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Daily Dose - Apple Doesn't Win Case Against Users of "i"

An Australian trademarks office blocked Apple's actions to stop a small company from trademarking "DOPi" as a name for its laptop bags and cases for Apple devices.  You may notice that DOPi is iPod spelled backwards, so that's why Apple thought the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/13/10
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Daily Dose - ASP.NET MVC 2 Has Arrived

Microsoft just released the second major version of ASP.NET MVC.  An alternative to HTML abstraction development in ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC 2 is used in cases where control over the HTML and precise layer separation are more important than...

Mitch Pronschinske03/12/10
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Daily Dose - Simon Phipps Elected to OSI Board of Directors

Just a few days after leaving Oracle, Simon Phipps, who served as the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun for nearly ten years, has been elected to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors.  Phipps intends to help the organization become more active...

Mitch Pronschinske03/11/10
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Opening the JBoss Toolbox 3.1

JBoss just wrapped up it's work on JBoss Tools 3.1 with a final release.  The umbrella project includes Eclipse plugins for JBoss AS, Hibernate, Drools, jBPM, JSF, (X)HTML, Seam, Smooks, JBoss ESB, JBoss Portal, and more.  JBoss Tools 3.1 will require...