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...
0 replies - 17168 views - 04/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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 - 13720 views - 04/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
"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 - 15214 views - 04/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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...
1 replies - 13316 views - 04/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
(part one
and two)
In this installment, I’m going to cover the configuration storage
mechanism for this separate configuration jar...
0 replies - 2860 views - 04/07/10 by Julian Simpson in News
A US federal appeals court ruled in favor of Comcast this week in the ISP's net neutrality battle with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) which has...
1 replies - 11754 views - 04/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Apple's "next big thing" was released in stores today, but the apps have been available since yesterday. These pre-release apps included Netflix...
0 replies - 13865 views - 04/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Mozilla Metrics blog announced the publishing of the foundation's first ever quarterly analyst report on browser share and other internet insights. The...
0 replies - 14564 views - 04/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Many companies are still not comfortable with using a software solution unless they are paying for it. However, tech companies that use mainly Open Source...
0 replies - 14709 views - 04/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
I have written up a checklist to use for unit-level Test-Driven Development,
to make sure I do not skip steps while writing code, at a very low
level of the...
3 replies - 6633 views - 03/30/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
At EclipseCon this week, Jason van Zyl, the founder of Sonatype and the Apache Maven project, is unveiling the first product in Maven Enterprise Suite, a...
1 replies - 10202 views - 03/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Taiwanese handset maker, HTC, released a statement listing all the "firsts" that they achieved in mobile device manufacturing as a response to...
0 replies - 16660 views - 03/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
One of the longest running debates I’ve watched in the Maven
community over the years, is how to best support different
configurations for different...
1 replies - 4497 views - 03/18/10 by Julian Simpson in News
In his first public address since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, Java creator James Gosling assured developers that Java was in good hands with Oracle. ...
0 replies - 17047 views - 03/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Reproducing a bug is one of the most problematic, "needle in a haystack"-type issues that a software development organization can face. In order to...
0 replies - 8365 views - 03/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
