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Mitch Pronschinske05/20/10
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Daily Dose - Lightspark: Free, Open Flash

A free and open source Flash player has emerged this week in beta. The Lightspark beta is close to having full ActionScript 3 support and it even includes debugging and profiling tools. The software uses hardware accelerated OpenGL-based rendering and...

Mitch Pronschinske05/19/10
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Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 Supports GWT, GAE, and Solr

With the first milestone release of Spring Roo 1.1.0, Project Lead Ben Alex says you can build a working web app with a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) front-end in as little as 200 keystrokes. That's right, deep GWT support is finally here for Spring...

Mitch Pronschinske05/18/10
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Daily Dose - Silverlight 4 VS Tools and WCF RIA Services

Microsoft released some handy Silverlight 4 tools for Visual Studio 2010 along with WCF RIA Services this week. The Silverlight tools provide an Intellisense functionality for modifying XAML styles, and there are tools for new features like elevated trust...

Mitch Pronschinske05/17/10
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Daily Dose - Schwartz Calls Ellison "Flawless" and "Lovely"

After Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's scathing comments criticizing the (mis)management of Sun Microsystems, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz had only one thing to say when a New York Times reporter asked him to comment: “Larry Ellison is a completely flawless,...

Mitch Pronschinske05/16/10
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Daily Dose - GAE 1.3.4; Authentication Additions

The Google App Engine 1.3.4 prerelease went live this weekend with authentication capabilities for apps. Applications will be able to authenticate with Open ID by selecting the OpenID option when generating an application in the admin console. A new API...

Mitch Pronschinske05/14/10
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Daily Dose - Hibernate 3.5.2 Final Released

JBoss has released the final version of Hibernate 3.5.2. The maintenance release fixes problems with querying and incorrect results. The artifacts have all been published in the new JBoss.org Maven repository, based on Nexus Pro. Go get it at...

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/10
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Daily Dose - Major Leaders Leave Android

This week Cedric Beust, a Senior Android Software Engineer, and Erick Tseng, the Android Senior Product Manager, left Google to join LinkedIn and Facebook (respectively). It's surprising that two leaders of the Android team left Google in the same week for...

Mitch Pronschinske05/12/10
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Daily Dose - No Closures in Java 7 After All?

David Flanagan doesn't seem to think so. The programming consultant and writer for O'Reilly Media shared some frustrating observations about the lack of progress on Project Lambda this week. Currently at version 0.15, Project Lambda's mailing list...

Mitch Pronschinske05/12/10
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JRuby 1.5 Integrates Maven and Ant

The JVM flavor of Ruby is rolling out version 1.5 today with integrations that transfer some of the build and config mojo from the Java platform to Ruby. Java developers will also find the JRuby language to be more friendly in this release. The new...

Mitch Pronschinske05/11/10
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Daily Dose - Developers Fix Drupal Module and Save Whitehouse.gov

The Drupal Context module is a release candidate, but it is still in use on many sites including the White House website. Earlier this week, a cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in the module. Now the development team behind the Context...

Mitch Pronschinske05/10/10
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Daily Dose - Malware Infects Numerous WordPress Pages

A large number of WordPress sites have been compromised by cyberattacks on various web hosts. The scripts that have infected the hacked WordPress pages with malware also prevent Firefox and Chrome tools from issuing warnings when users try to access the...

Mitch Pronschinske05/09/10
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Daily Dose - O3D Moves From Plugin to JS Library

The Chromium team didn't make its decision lightly, but they decided to start developing O3D, a 3D graphics API for the browser, as a JavaScript library on top of WebGL. O3D was formerly developed as a plugin and an alternative to OpenGL and WebGL because...

Mitch Pronschinske05/07/10
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Daily Dose - Not a Joke: GitHub Getting Broad Subversion Support

You probably thought it was an April Fools joke when GitHub announced Subversion read-only support on April 1st. However, the people at GitHub announced this month that GitHub has added Subversion write support. Developers can now use tools like SmartSVN...

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/10
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Daily Dose - World Wide Web Lives Up to its Name: Non-Latin Addresses Go Live

ICANN has now begun allowing non-latin characters to be used in top-level internet domains by inserting the first IDN country-code domains into the DNS root zone. Arab countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE were the first countries to get...

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...