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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...

0 replies - 17972 views - 04/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

2 replies - 13871 views - 04/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

6 replies - 15362 views - 04/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Novell Keeps Unix Copyrights; Linux is Safe

A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Novell owns the Unix copyrights, and not SCO.  In the 7-year court battle, SCO claimed that copyrights transferred...

0 replies - 17049 views - 03/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Klocwork Beefs Up Security in Agile Source Analysis

The vulnerability analysis features in Klocwork's products were recently strengthened to align with industry and government best practices.  Klocwork is a...

0 replies - 5813 views - 03/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Skipfish: Google's New Tool to Harden Web App Security

A new open source web application security hole scanner is available from Google on the Google Code site.  The tool, named Skipfish, is similar to Nmap and...

0 replies - 13125 views - 03/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun

Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun   Just a few months short of his 10th anniversary, Simon Phipps is retiring from Oracle (formerly Sun) according to his blog. ...

0 replies - 17004 views - 03/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - US Lobbyists Blacklist Open Source Promoting Counties

US Lobbyists Blacklist Open Source Promoting Counties   The group of US lobbyists known as the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) released a...

1 replies - 20219 views - 02/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing

Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing  The dominant PHP company, Zend, just released the final version of Zend Server 5.0  The signature new feature is...

0 replies - 17584 views - 02/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Updated

25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Updated   Thirty international security organizations have once again compiled a list of the top 25 most dangerous...

0 replies - 18868 views - 02/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google Seeks Chrome Patents

Google Seeks Chrome Patents   At least four patent applications have been filed by Google relating to their Chrome browser technology.  Three are related to...

0 replies - 16090 views - 02/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Sun Loses a Poet

Sun Loses a Poet For his last day on the job, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote his final farewell in a haiku on twitter: "Today's my last...

2 replies - 16841 views - 02/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Quest for the One True iPad

Quest for the One True iPad   Following the announcement of the iPad by Apple, Fujitsu's PR director Masahiro Yamane told the NY Times: "It's our...

0 replies - 16917 views - 01/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Project Darwin Beta is Evolving

Project Darwin Beta is Evolving The beta program for the next release of Ehcache for Terracotta, dubbed "Project Darwin," is now live over at...

0 replies - 15753 views - 01/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

DZone Daily Dose - 12/30

No Firefox 3.6 This Year The Mozilla Wiki just changed the ship date for Firefox 3.6 to Q1 2010.  This new schedule will push back Firefox 4 to late 2010 or...

0 replies - 16515 views - 12/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose