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Mitch Pronschinske11/15/10
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Daily Dose - WebM Available for 80% of YouTube Daily Videos

According to Google's John Luther, over 80% of daily YouTube videos are now available in WebM: a completely free and open source codec pack for HTML5 video. After it was open sourced at Google I/O in the spring, WebM was quickly adopted by browser-makers...

Mitch Pronschinske11/13/10
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Daily Dose - Google Fires Back: 'Oracle Doctored the Code in Question'

Google presented a new document to the court in the Oracle-Android case. In the document, Google says that they did not copy Oracle's Java APIs and that Oracle had revised or deleted essential passages in the evidence that attempts to prove Google's...

Mitch Pronschinske11/12/10
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Daily Dose - Django 1.3 Goes Alpha

The well-known Python-based web framework, Django, has delivered its first preview release for version 1.3. This next version will allow developers to use a class as a view and will have framework-level support for Python's logging module. More features...

Mitch Pronschinske11/11/10
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Daily Dose - JBoss AS 7.0 Goes Alpha, AS 6.0 Finishing Up Beta

JBoss plans to keep the development train rolling for their open source application server. While JBoss AS 6.0 is approaching the candidate release stage, JBoss is now releasing early builds of the next generation app server, 7.0. They announced the first...

Mitch Pronschinske11/10/10
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Daily Dose - Scala 2.8.1 Release Goes Final

The first update to Scala's 2.8.x line is now generally available with a large number of bugfixes and several improvements. The Scaladoc tool has seen the most noticeable improvement in this release. Scala 2.8.1 is fully binary compatible with Scala...

Mitch Pronschinske11/09/10
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Daily Dose - Hudson Creator Joins CloudBees

After the creator of the popular, open source Hudson continuous integration tool left Oracle, he started his own company, InfraDNA, to continue Hudson development and provide commercial support. Now the Hudson creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, has decided to join...

Mitch Pronschinske11/08/10
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Daily Dose - Oracle to Sell "Premium" JVM

Tweets coming out of the weekend's QCon conference revealed Oracle's plan for a premium JVM that comes with a price tag. Adam Messinger, the Oracle VP of development made the announcement saying that Oracle still plans to develop a free and open source...

Mitch Pronschinske11/05/10
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Daily Dose - Out of the Blue - Microsoft Open Sources F# Under Apache v2

In a big surprise from Microsoft, Principal Researcher Don Syme announced that their relatively young functional programming language for the .NET platform, F#, is being open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. The F# compiler and core library source code...

Mitch Pronschinske11/05/10
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Daily Dose - Lift 2.2 M1 Adds MVC Style Helpers

The Scala and Java-based web framework, Lift, is getting the first of many new features for the upcoming 2.2 version. With the first milestone release this week, Lift 2.2 adds designer-friendly templates, CSS Selector transforms, and stateless rendering...

Mitch Pronschinske11/03/10
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Daily Dose - Seam 3 Goes Beta!

The first beta for JBoss' Seam 3.0 framework is now available. It requires Weld 1.0.1 Beta 1+ and JBoss logging instead of SLF4J. This release includes an early integration of Seam Managed Transactions, an input field container component, and a bugfix for...

Mitch Pronschinske11/02/10
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Daily Dose - WP7 App Market Open For Submissions

Today the Windows Phone 7 App Market is officially open for public submissions. Over 12k developers have already registered for the new marketplace. That number should increase now that non-early access developers can submit apps. You can download the...

Mitch Pronschinske11/01/10
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Daily Dose - Apache: 'Android "Copied Code" Not Ours'

While the core class libraries of Android's Dalvik VM incorporate a subset of Apache Harmony, this code is not the intellectual property that Oracle is suing Google over. Apache posted a blog recently trying to clear up this misconception that Harmony is...

Mitch Pronschinske10/31/10
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Daily Dose - VP8 SDK is Ready

The WebM project has just delivered their first release of libvpx (codename: "Aylesbury"), the SDK for the VP8 open source video codec. The VP8 codec was open sourced at Google I/O this year and combined with Ogg Vorbis (an open audio codec) to...

Mitch Pronschinske10/29/10
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Daily Dose - London Stock Exchange Switches to Linux - Breaks Record Trading Speed

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has recently migrated from a .NET system over to Linux for their stock trading system. Recent tests have broken the trading speed record on their prior system. The record breaking average trading latency time happened on...

Mitch Pronschinske10/28/10
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Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 and Supporting Tools Launch

The GA releases of Spring Roo 1.1, GWT 2.1, STS 2.5, and new AspectJ and AJDT versions have been launched this week after many months of synchronized development releases. Spring Roo 1.1 and GWT 2.1 now offer more integrated feature sets and better...