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Mitch Pronschinske04/22/10
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Daily Dose - App Engine 1.3.3 Released

A new Google App Engine SDK for Java and Python was released this week. The 1.3.3 version includes changes and issue fixes for the data store, admin console, and deployment. The Python SDK has gained a shiny new experimental feature that lets you use...

Mitch Pronschinske04/22/10
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Study on the State of Code Review

A comprehensive survey was recently conducted to to see how organizations today are conducting code reviews, and what challenges they commonly face. The Forrester study, commissioned by Klocwork, looks at the key benefits of code review, the tools that...

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/10
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Daily Dose - Ken Thompson Still Has To Take Google's Language Test

An extremely ironic quote from the co-inventor of Unix and the C language, Ken Thompson, was found in the book Coders at Work. The quote was posted by Gawker today and reveals that even Ken Thompson was required to take a mandatory test on the language he...

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/10
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Abstracting Infrastructure: Heroku Integrates Memecached Service on EC2

The Ruby-based Cloud Platform provider, Heroku, released a Memcached add-on that runs on Amazon EC2. The new service uses NorthScale's Memcached server. Developers can now use Heroku to deploy their applications with a performance-boosting Memcached...

Mitch Pronschinske04/20/10
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Daily Dose - The Future of Car and Smartphone Integration

Automaker Ford has announced that it will make the first vehicle that enables Blackberry and Android phones to use certain web apps through voice commands. The 2011 model of the Ford Fiesta, which will be released this summer, will be the first vehicle to...

Mitch Pronschinske04/19/10
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Code Review Tools and Techniques

Compared to other development activities, code review tends to have less published resources available to help developers stay abreast of the latest review methods, tooling, and best practices. Arming developers with the knowledge of code review tools and...

Mitch Pronschinske04/19/10
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Daily Dose - iPhone 4G Leaked

The fourth generation iPhone was found in a Redwood City bar about a week ago and is now in the hands of Gizmodo, who reported on the story. All signs indicate that this is the real deal. All the hardware is next-generation and clearly labeled...

Mitch Pronschinske04/18/10
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Daily Dose - Apple, Google, Intel, IBM Hiring Practices Under Investigation

The US Department of Justice is investigating several major software companies according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The investigations are aimed at uncovering the details surrounding possible deals between companies not to steal each others'...

Mitch Pronschinske04/16/10
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Daily Dose - MonoTouch 3.0; Seems Unfazed by Apple's New Terms

Novell VP and Mono project lead Miguel de Icasa isn't worried that MonoTouch might fall under Apple's new restrictions that banned Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone compiler. He just announced the release of MonoTouch 3.0, which adds support for iPhoneOS 4.0's new...

Mitch Pronschinske04/15/10
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Daily Dose - Scala 2.8 RC1

The first release candidate for the Scala 2.8 JVM language has been announced. 2.8 will be a major revision that will not be binary-compatible with the 2.7 branch. With an optimized compiler, Scala 2.8 will run 50% faster. The most notable changes...

Mitch Pronschinske04/14/10
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Daily Dose - Is Adobe Ready to Sue the Ever-Living Crap Out of Apple?

"Within a few weeks," says one report, Adobe will drop the lawsuit-bomb on Apple for locking out their Flash-to-iPhone compiler in the revised iPhone/iPad SDK development terms. The report comes to us via IT World, and they said that the change in...

Mitch Pronschinske04/13/10
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Daily Dose - Will Google's VP8 Video Codec Solve HTML5 Video Dilemma?

There may still be hope for people who favor a single, non-patented <video> tag standard in HTML5. A report by NewTeeVee says a source with inside knowledge of Google tells them that the company is planning to announce the open sourcing of On2's VP8...

Mitch Pronschinske04/12/10
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Gear6's Memcached Adds the Best of Both Worlds: MySQL and NoSQL

One technology that continues to push the limits of data caching and massive web persistence is Gear6's Web Caching Server. Think of Gear6 Web Cache as a Memcached distribution on steroids. It can run in the datacenter or the cloud (EC2, GoGrid) while...

Mitch Pronschinske04/12/10
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Daily Dose - How iAds Help Google

Competition is rarely what businesses really want, unless your company is trying to prove that it has a competitive market so that it can complete an acquisition. Such is the case for Google, who are currently trying to acquire AdMob, a mobile ad company. ...

Mitch Pronschinske04/11/10
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Daily Dose - Yahoo's CTO Quits

Ari Balogh, who joined Yahoo in 2008, has recently resigned from his post as the company's CTO and head of products. Balogh, who will leave his position on June 3rd, cited personal family reasons for his departure. Meanwhile, Yahoo is possibly talking to...