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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...

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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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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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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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...