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Daily Dose - Django 1.3 Goes Alpha

The well-known Python-based web framework, Django, has delivered its first preview release for version 1.3.  This next version will allow developers to use a...

1 replies - 21096 views - 11/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Out of the Blue - Microsoft Open Sources F# Under Apache v2

In a big surprise from Microsoft, Principal Researcher Don Syme announced that their relatively young functional programming language for the .NET platform,...

1 replies - 18677 views - 11/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Seam 3 Goes Beta!

The first beta for JBoss' Seam 3.0 framework is now available.  It requires Weld 1.0.1 Beta 1+ and JBoss logging instead of SLF4J.  This release includes an...

1 replies - 20016 views - 11/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - VP8 SDK is Ready

The WebM project has just delivered their first release of libvpx (codename: "Aylesbury"), the SDK for the VP8 open source video codec.  The VP8...

0 replies - 22146 views - 10/31/10 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 - 19839 views - 10/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Ubuntu Ditches GNOME

I guess this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been keeping up with how much (or how little, really) Canonical contributes to the GNOME open source...

1 replies - 21412 views - 10/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Tomcat 7.0.4 Beta Release Leapfrogs 7.0.3

The 7.0.4 beta release of Apache Tomcat is available for download this week.  The new beta fixes a plethora of bugs and contains enhancements and bugfixes...

0 replies - 21896 views - 10/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

0 replies - 17209 views - 10/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

0 replies - 17886 views - 10/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

1 replies - 18032 views - 10/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

0 replies - 17354 views - 09/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - A Few More Thoughts From James Gosling

Darryl Taft wasn't the only one who got an interview with the Father of Java this week.  The authors of the Basement Coders blog also got Gosling to do a...

0 replies - 19631 views - 09/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Mylyn Becomes Top Level Project

After a major reorganization at the beginning of this year, the Eclipse Mylyn ALM (application lifecycle management) project has earned 'top level' status. ...

0 replies - 15259 views - 09/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Mozilla Makes a Monster Benchmark

After its longstanding gripes with the over-valued SunSpider benchmark, Mozilla has finally made the first public version of their own benchmark.  They call...

1 replies - 20615 views - 09/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Solaris 10 Update Arrives Ahead of OpenWorld

They couldn't wait ten more days for Oracle OpenWorld to release an update to the Solaris 10 operating system.  Oracle has quietly released the update along...

0 replies - 17535 views - 09/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose