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Mitch Pronschinske10/17/10
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Daily Dose - University Building a New Parallel Java

With funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Intel, and Microsoft, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has undertaken a project to build a new parallel implementation of the Java language that is the first to guarantee deterministic...

Mitch Pronschinske10/15/10
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Daily Dose - GAE Gets New Admin Utilities

Google released the next version of the Google AppEngineSDK this week.  The new 1.3.8 SDK includes a new Admin Console called the Instances page, which lets you see information on all server instances that an application is using.  There are also new task...

Mitch Pronschinske10/14/10
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Daily Dose - Spring Roo's RooBot

Spring Roo 1.1 RC 1 was just released with nearly 300 enhancements since the milestone stage.  The latest release adds the "RooBot" client, which is used for automating add-on deployment.  There is also incremental database reverse engineering in...

Mitch Pronschinske10/13/10
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Daily Dose - Spring Web Flow 2.2 GA

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, dojox, and a Facelets tag library for Spring Security.  2.2 also adds two spring-js artifacts and a...

Mitch Pronschinske10/12/10
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Daily Dose - GWT 2.1 RC1 Adds 2.2 Features

Developers are getting GWT (Google Web Toolkit) features that were originally planned for version 2.2 by downloading the 2.1 RC1 version, which was just released.  GWT 2.1 features a Model-View-Presenter framework that introduces the concepts of Activities...

Mitch Pronschinske10/11/10
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Daily Dose - Java SE Patched Today

Today Oracle is releasing an update that will fix 29 critical holes in the Java Development Kit and the Java Runtime Environment.  The patch effects not only Java SE and Java for business, but also some of Oracle's proprietary technologies.  Oracle Database...

Mitch Pronschinske10/10/10
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Daily Dose - ZFS Finally Getting Data Encryption

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 Solaris Express 2010.  The blog post that reveals the new feature will have support for encrypted ZFS...

Mitch Pronschinske10/08/10
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Daily Dose - Report Says Microsoft/Adobe Merger Story is Bunk

While it certainly didn't hurt Adobe's stock prices, which rose by 11.5% this week, the rumors that Microsoft is in talks to buy Adobe are "nonsense" according to many sources at both companies.  The rumor came from a New York Times article...

Mitch Pronschinske10/07/10
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Daily Dose - LLVM 2.8 Includes Drop-in System Assembler

Six months after the 2.7 release of the Low-Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure, the 2.8 version is now available.  The previous version of the LLVM's front end, the Clang C/C++ compiler, was the first that could compile itself.  Now 2.8 features...

Mitch Pronschinske10/06/10
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Daily Dose - W3C Official: Don't Use HTML5 Yet

Philippe Le Hegaret, a World Wide Web Consortium domain leader says it's too early for browsers to be settling on unconfirmed HTML5-related specification drafts and it's too early for websites to be using the drafts to build their websites.  Of course, this...

Mitch Pronschinske10/05/10
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Daily Dose - Android Adds More Countries to the Marketplace, Plus Skype

A lot of Android news has happened in this past week.  Google CEO Eric Schmidt claims that the increase in advertising due to Android has already covered the cost of the platform's development, but Bill Ray of the Register seems skeptical.  Google also...

Mitch Pronschinske10/04/10
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Daily Dose - Another Android OEM Gets Sued

After Apple Sued HTC for Android phone-related IP infringement a few months ago, and then after Oracle sued Google for Dalvik's particular usage of Java, a third tech giant has taken aim at the Android Alliance.  This time it's Microsoft, and they're suing...

Mitch Pronschinske10/03/10
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Daily Dose - US Government to Upgrade to IPv6 by 2012

The US chief information officer announced the Obama administration's ambitious plans to upgrade the networks and services of all US government agencies to IPv6 by September 2012.  Internal networks would be expected to be upgraded by September 2014. ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/01/10
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Daily Dose - Researchers Slam Android Over Apps that Leak GPS data

A study from researchers at Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs has discovered that 15 out of 30 popular Android applications selected at random were sending GPS data and phone numbers to advertisers and remote servers.  Several months...

Mitch Pronschinske09/30/10
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Daily Dose - Metawidget 1.0 Lands

The unique Java UI tool, Metawidget, has finally reached a high level of maturity since its inception over two years ago.  The open source project is described as a "smart User Interface widget" that makes the necessary changes at runtime to match...