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Daily Dose: Microsoft's Daytona brings MapReduce to Windows Azure

MapReduce, Google's framework for scaling large amounts of data across computers, has been ported to Windows Azure by Microsoft. The project, code-named...

0 replies - 19145 views - 07/17/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: LucidWorks Enterprise 1.8 Crawls Shared Files

LucidWorks Enterprise released its new version 1.8 featuring the addition of new crawl and security functionality. The platform can now crawl and index files...

0 replies - 20821 views - 07/14/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: JAX Innovations Awards 2011 Winners Announced!

Over the last three months, nominations and voting for the Jax Innovation Awards took place, the awards ceremony which highlights innovation and excellence...

0 replies - 17074 views - 06/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose:Flex and Flash Builder Add iOS and Blackberry Support

Today, Adobe released an update to Flex and Flash Builder 4.5, adding support for Apple's iOS and Blackberry Tablet OS Flex Projects in addition to the support...

0 replies - 13333 views - 06/20/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Big Data, Big Competition: LexisNexis To Release Hadoop Competitor

LexisNexis is set to launch open source data processing tools that supposedly outdo Hadoop, the current darling of the Big Data world. The new product line is...

0 replies - 16282 views - 06/16/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Microsoft Adding More Support for C++

In a research paper published by Google last week, C++ was found to be the best-performing programming language in the market, trumping Java, Scala, and its...

0 replies - 13588 views - 06/15/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Spring Jumps Into M2 of Version 3.1.0

 Spring, the open source application framework, reached its "second and final milestone", and version 3.1 is now available. The new features...

0 replies - 16584 views - 06/10/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: First Milestone Of Grails 1.4 Released

Grails users will be happy to see that Grails 1.4, the first milestone of the open source framework, was released this week, featuring major changes such as:-...

0 replies - 8700 views - 06/08/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: HTML5 Goes Mobile: The-M-Project Open Source Framework

Tired of constantly adapting your code to the latest smartphone OS? The-M-Project might be the solution you've been waiting for. A new open source HTML5...

0 replies - 25689 views - 02/23/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

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0 replies - 1955 views - 01/18/11 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

Daily Dose - ICEfaces 2.0 - A Wintery, JSF 2-based Release

The ICEfaces team has delivered the major version 2.0 this week and as the number implies, it is built on top of the relatively new JSF 2.0 spec.  The new...

0 replies - 26338 views - 12/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Silverlight 5 Plan

At Microsoft's developer-focused Silverlight Firestarter event, they laid out the roadmap for the next version of Silverlight - an RIA platform that is now...

0 replies - 17805 views - 12/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - VirtualBox Update from Oracle

The Oracle VM VirtualBox has reached version 3.2.12.  The virtualization app for x86 hardware just received about 20 bugfixes fixing stability issues, 64-bit...

0 replies - 19185 views - 12/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

0 replies - 19854 views - 10/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Adobe Releases HTML5 Video Player w/Flash Rollover

Adobe wasn't kidding when they said they were riding the HTML5 bandwagon as hard as anybody right now.  Rather than compete with the new web standard, Adobe...

0 replies - 26148 views - 10/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose