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Daily Dose: Introducing Drizzle: A New, Lightweight Version of MySQL

Drizzle is the latest lightweight fork originating from Oracle's MySQL database.  The Drizzle development team has eliminated all of the features they...

2 replies - 23374 views - 03/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Oracle Admits "Rocky Start" To Java.net

Oracle warned us that Java.net would be in a bug-fixing phase for the first few weeks following the migration. That didn't discourage many community members...

1 replies - 20828 views - 03/16/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Enterprise Portals Extend to Cloud With eXo Cloud IDE and eXo Platform 3.5

eXo Platform, a company that develops Java portals, has released eXo Platform 3.5 and eXo Cloud IDE in an attempt to bring a cloud environment to enterprise...

0 replies - 19188 views - 03/15/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose : Release of Jython 2.5.2 Reaches Benchmarks 20% Faster

The newest version of Python for Java virtual machines is here! Improvements to overall Jython performance result in a 20% faster pystone benchmark speed. ...

0 replies - 23734 views - 03/08/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose : Havok Physics Engine Debuted For Android 2.3

Cellphone-based gameplay has just leveled up. (As if we needed more of an excuse to play Angry Birds at work.) The Havok physics engine for Android 2.3 will...

0 replies - 24325 views - 03/07/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: OpenJDK6 Leader Joseph Darcy Resigns Release Managment Duties

The leader of OpenJDK6, Joseph Darcy is stepping down from his release management duties for the project this week.  Kelly O'Hair will take on his...

1 replies - 19145 views - 03/04/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Apple's "Magical" iPad 2 Revealed!

The much-anticipated release of the iPad 2 revealed a host of upgrades.  Apple's iPad 2 includes a lot of the big, expected new features like a dual-core 1GHz...

0 replies - 21225 views - 03/03/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Shiny New GlassFish 3.1 Released

GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1 has been released to the general public. This open-source version of GlassFish includes full clustering and...

3 replies - 19611 views - 03/01/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Apache Lucene 3.0: Download the LucidWorks Certified Distribution

LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Lucene is a comprehensive, tested version of the Apache Lucene library, based on the most recent stable Lucene 3.0...

0 replies - 8106 views - 02/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Uncategorized

Apache Solr: Download the LucidWorks Certified Distribution

The LucidWorks Certified Distribution of Solr is a comprehensive, tested and release-stable certified distribution of Apache Solr available free from Lucid...

0 replies - 8279 views - 02/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Uncategorized

Daily Dose: Spring 3.1 Milestone 1 is Loaded

The Spring Framework team has announced the first milestone release of Spring Framework 3.1. New features include enhanced Bean definition profiles, ...

1 replies - 26535 views - 02/13/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - NoSQLs Join Forces

NoSQL backers Membase and CouchOne just announced that they are merging to create Couchbase, Inc.  Combining the caching and clustering technology of Membase,...

0 replies - 20865 views - 02/09/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java Contracts: By Google

Contracted code in Java can reveal failures much closer to their fault, shaving hours off your debugging sessions.  It's good news then that Google has just...

1 replies - 27631 views - 02/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Will NetBeans Have to Remove JUnit?

NetBeans Platform Architect Jaroslav Tulach recently posted some surprising news on the JUnit Yahoo Group.  "We have new lawyers," he said, and...

0 replies - 18822 views - 01/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Hudson Renamed "Jenkins" as Oracle Clings to Naming Rights

You may recall the controversy that surfaced in December over the naming rights and trademarks surrounding the open source continuous integration engine,...

1 replies - 21039 views - 01/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose