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Mitch Pronschinske05/05/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe CTO Likens Apple to a 19th Century Railroad Company

In the 1800's, different railroad companies around the world used different gauges for the rails, making trans-national travel very difficult. Because of companies like Apple, the same thing is happening in the mobile development space, according to Adobe...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/10
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Daily Dose - Microsoft's CLI for Browsers?

Mono Project lead Miguel de Icaza recently suggested that web developers could write much better applications if the Common Language Infrastructure (CLR), upon which the .NET framework sits, were integrated into today's browsers. de Icaza says it would give...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/10
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Mahout, HBase Among Six Apache Graduates

Today the Apache Software Foundation graduated five sub-projects and one incubator project en masse to Top-Level Projects. Mahout, Nutch, Tika, Avro, and HBase were the five graduated sub-projects, and the recently donated Apache Traffic Server was promoted...

Mitch Pronschinske05/03/10
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Daily Dose - What Do You Want To See in Silverlight 5?

There's no rest for Microsoft's Silverlight team. They are already preparing to schedule new features to go into Silverlight 5. Version 4 was announced at the MIX 10 conference, and in an effort to maintain their fast tempo of Silverlight releases,...

Mitch Pronschinske05/02/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe Wants Employees to Abandon the iPhone Too

Adobe is encouraging employees to eat their own mobile dogfood by giving them all free Android phones (which will soon be running Flash 10.1) at the Google I/O conference. This is an effort to promote company unity behind the iPhone's competitors after...

Mitch Pronschinske04/30/10
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Daily Dose - Good-gle Gives Back to Linux

The official Linux tree will be getting a nice present from Google very soon. The company recently assigned two developers to begin integrating features back into the Linux tree that Google created in its Android Linux kernel development. Integrating some...

Mitch Pronschinske04/29/10
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Daily Dose - Lucid Lynx Officially on the Prowl

Two years after the last Ubuntu Long Term Service release, Canonical has delivered the next version of Ubuntu that comes with three years of desktop support and five years of server support. Codenamed 'Lucid Lynx', the 10.04 release of Ubuntu LTS features a...

Mitch Pronschinske04/28/10
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi Talks Hudson

This week Hudson creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi introduced his new startup, InfraDNA, which provides support and consulting for the Hudson Continuous Integration system. After nine years of employment, Kawaguchi left Oracle earlier this month in order to start his...

Mitch Pronschinske04/28/10
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Daily Dose - HP to Buy Palm

Palm has been struggling to find a company willing to buy them out ever since their quarterly sales and stock prices plummeted. Now Hewlett-Packard has announced its willingness to buy Palm and its struggling smartphones - the price tag: $1.2 billion, which...

Mitch Pronschinske04/28/10
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Major LLVM Release!

After a solid six months of development, the next version of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) compiler infrastructure is live and ready to download. The new release showcases core infrastructure improvements along with better debug information and code...

Mitch Pronschinske04/27/10
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Daily Dose - Hadoop is Safe From Google's MapReduce Patent

Google has just granted a patent license to the Apache Hadoop distributed computing framework, which uses a MapReduce process similar to Google's recently patented version of MapReduce ("System and method for efficient large-scale data pr

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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Daily Dose - A Farewell to Floppy Disks

Sony announced that they will stop selling floppy discs this year, making them the final manufacturer to halt their production. You may not believe it, but even up until 2008, the company could still sell 8.5 million floppy disks just in Japan. Now demand...

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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State of the Web 2010 - CSS3 on the Rise

The State of Web Development 2010 survey recently closed and published its results. In the survey, professional web designers and developers answer over 50 questions about various web technology topics. The last survey was conducted in late 2008, and...

Mitch Pronschinske04/25/10
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Daily Dose - Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates

Stats from androlib.com show that the Android Marketplace has surpassed 50k Apps, and app production has been accelerating. In December there were around 4,000 new Android apps. Each of the last two months have seen over 8,000 new apps accepted into the...

Mitch Pronschinske04/23/10
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Daily Dose - Palm Software Lead's Last Day

Yesterday was the last day for Michael Abbot, the head of Palm's software and services team. The news comes as no surprise since Palm has been struggling to stay afloat or possibly get bought out now that their stock is declining. Palm did however, keep...