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Daily Dose - GAE 1.3.4; Authentication Additions

The Google App Engine 1.3.4 prerelease went live this weekend with authentication capabilities for apps.  Applications will be able to authenticate with Open...

0 replies - 14759 views - 05/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Developers Fix Drupal Module and Save Whitehouse.gov

The Drupal Context module is a release candidate, but it is still in use on many sites including the White House website.  Earlier this week, a cross-site...

0 replies - 15984 views - 05/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Malware Infects Numerous WordPress Pages

A large number of WordPress sites have been compromised by cyberattacks on various web hosts.  The scripts that have infected the hacked WordPress pages with...

0 replies - 15239 views - 05/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - App Engine 1.3.3 Released

A new Google App Engine SDK for Java and Python was released this week.  The 1.3.3 version includes changes and issue fixes for the data store, admin console,...

0 replies - 17023 views - 04/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Future of Car and Smartphone Integration

Automaker Ford has announced that it will make the first vehicle that enables Blackberry and Android phones to use certain web apps through voice commands. ...

1 replies - 13742 views - 04/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - iPhone 4G Leaked

The fourth generation iPhone was found in a Redwood City bar about a week ago and is now in the hands of Gizmodo, who reported on the story.  All signs...

0 replies - 17845 views - 04/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Scala 2.8 RC1

The first release candidate for the Scala 2.8 JVM language has been announced.  2.8 will be a major revision that will not be binary-compatible with the 2.7...

2 replies - 13735 views - 04/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Is Adobe Ready to Sue the Ever-Living Crap Out of Apple?

"Within a few weeks," says one report, Adobe will drop the lawsuit-bomb on Apple for locking out their Flash-to-iPhone compiler in the revised...

6 replies - 15228 views - 04/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Novell Keeps Unix Copyrights; Linux is Safe

A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Novell owns the Unix copyrights, and not SCO.  In the 7-year court battle, SCO claimed that copyrights transferred...

0 replies - 16886 views - 03/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun

Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun   Just a few months short of his 10th anniversary, Simon Phipps is retiring from Oracle (formerly Sun) according to his blog. ...

0 replies - 16870 views - 03/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - US Lobbyists Blacklist Open Source Promoting Counties

US Lobbyists Blacklist Open Source Promoting Counties   The group of US lobbyists known as the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) released a...

1 replies - 20084 views - 02/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing

Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing  The dominant PHP company, Zend, just released the final version of Zend Server 5.0  The signature new feature is...

0 replies - 17443 views - 02/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Updated

25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Updated   Thirty international security organizations have once again compiled a list of the top 25 most dangerous...

0 replies - 18710 views - 02/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google Seeks Chrome Patents

Google Seeks Chrome Patents   At least four patent applications have been filed by Google relating to their Chrome browser technology.  Three are related to...

0 replies - 15957 views - 02/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Sun Loses a Poet

Sun Loses a Poet For his last day on the job, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote his final farewell in a haiku on twitter: "Today's my last...

2 replies - 16721 views - 02/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose