Tools & Methods

  • submit to reddit

Daily Dose: Google Chrome Pwned

After withstanding several hacking attempts, Google Chrome's sandbox has been compromised. The VUPEN Security team officially announced their accomplishment on...

0 replies - 19562 views - 05/09/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Google Web Toolkit 2.3 Is Here!

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.3, a Java-based open source development framework designed for use with Ajax applications, is built with IE9 in mind and it has...

0 replies - 21098 views - 05/04/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Mobile Couchbase for IOS Debuts Today!

Apache's Mobile Couchbase for IOS allows users to sync application data across their various mobile devices.  They can also easily backup their user data to...

0 replies - 20869 views - 05/02/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Countdown to the End of XP Support

Microsoft XP is officially being retired.  To mark the date when Microsoft will officially withdraw support for XP, developers at the software giant have...

3 replies - 29262 views - 04/21/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: NetBeans 7.0 Has Java 7 Support

Oracle's newly released NetBeans 7.0 features support for Java 7 features.  The JDK 7 component of NetBeans 7.0 is technically an early access snapshot.  A...

2 replies - 29269 views - 04/20/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Oracle Brings New 'Coherence' to Data Grid Market

Coherence 3.7, Oracle's distributed in-memory data grid product, is available for early adopters today.  Since the last Coherence release, the Oracle...

0 replies - 18624 views - 04/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: HTML5 Editor Maqetta Simplifies Implementation of New Standards

Using Maqetta, IBM's open-source WYSIWIG editor, developers can now easily and cheaply incorporate HTML5 into their user interfaces for mobile and desktop...

0 replies - 23457 views - 04/15/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Silverlight 5 Beta Ready to Shine

Microsoft has finally released a beta version of it's popular media plugin, Silverlight 5 Beta. Users can download the beta version off of Microsoft's site. ...

1 replies - 18181 views - 04/14/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: First Beta of Adobe AIR 2.7 Available On Labs

Developers can now take the Adobe AIR 2.7 for a test drive!  Currently, the beta is only available for desktops.  Acoustic Echo Cancellation allows the user...

0 replies - 9437 views - 04/04/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

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 - 23262 views - 03/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Mozilla Opens Up App Shop!

After a long wait, Mozilla is finally getting into the app game. Interested developers can access Mozilla's JavaScript API here. Several apps are ready for...

0 replies - 17859 views - 03/06/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Infamous Java Floating Point Bug Finally Fixed!

Users of Java SE and Java for Business can now code in a  less error-prone environment. Update 24 for Java 6 spells the end of the floating point bug reported...

0 replies - 30503 views - 02/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey 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 - 18638 views - 01/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - What's New in Emacs 24?

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 - 27273 views - 01/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Apple Making 3 iPad 2s?

According to an unnamed source, Apple could be planning to release three different versions of the iPad 2 next year: Wi-Fi only, UMTS + Wi-Fi, and CDMA.  The...

0 replies - 26155 views - 12/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose