A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today. New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and...
0 replies - 18002 views - 01/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Less than a year after Microsoft was forced to provide that "browser ballot" on setup (for Europe only), their browser (Internet Explorer) has lost...
0 replies - 21662 views - 01/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
As the nightly builds for Emacs 24 start to churn out, developers can expect some cool new features. These features include UI changes, custom themes,...
0 replies - 27265 views - 01/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A tweet from the Google Nexus feed confirms that the older "Nexus" model will also get the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update over the air in a few...
0 replies - 25235 views - 12/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
It looks like Google may hold on to the Android 3.0 title for another more spectacular future release. As it stands, a source reports that the next version...
0 replies - 26824 views - 12/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Eclipse Foundation is now taking nominations for the 2011 Eclipse Community Awards. The deadline is January 28, 2011. Categories for awards include...
0 replies - 21620 views - 12/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
"Oracle’s position appears to be the most onerous and draconian of any major hardware manufacturer," claims Claudia Betzner, the executive director...
0 replies - 29727 views - 11/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Over the last two days the back-and-forth over TCKs continued between Apache and Oracle. Stephen Colebourne, a certified Java Champion, knows this issue very...
0 replies - 22536 views - 11/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
After the creator of the popular, open source Hudson continuous integration tool left Oracle, he started his own company, InfraDNA, to continue Hudson...
0 replies - 18904 views - 11/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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...
4 replies - 23864 views - 11/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The OpenStack project for open source, interoperable cloud computing and storage controllers has just released its first public version, codenamed...
1 replies - 15613 views - 10/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The final release of Spring Web Flow 2.2 is here bringing JSF 2.0 support and Portlet 2.0 support. This version of Spring Web Flow implements Dojo 1.5,...
0 replies - 19247 views - 10/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Sun/Oracle developers have been working on bringing cryptography functions to ZFS, and now Oracle is announcing that this feature will likely be included in...
0 replies - 15677 views - 10/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A developer who provides nightly Chromium builds has managed to port Google's Chromium OS to the iPad. He posted a picture of the iPad's web page running in...
0 replies - 20683 views - 09/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Jeff Bonwick, the software engineer who led the team that created ZFS, is leaving his position as an Oracle VP. In his blog, Bonwick gave no sign of rancor...
1 replies - 15315 views - 09/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
