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Day 1 -- Ruby

When I decided to blow through "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks " in only 7 days, I had yet to read even the introduction to the book. I can tell...

0 replies - 5368 views - 03/30/11 by Wayne Adams in Articles

Daily Dose: Infinite Possibilities: ALPHA3 Release of Infinispan 5.0.0. "Pagoa"

The next generation of the Infinispan open-source data grid platform has been released.  API enhancements include changes to RemoteCache, and the ability to...

0 replies - 19664 views - 02/22/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Will NetBeans Have to Remove JUnit?

NetBeans Platform Architect Jaroslav Tulach recently posted some surprising news on the JUnit Yahoo Group.  "We have new lawyers," he said, and...

0 replies - 18592 views - 01/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

9 Programming Languages To Watch In 2011

I have written several posts regarding job trends in programming languages. However, I have not really written any posts that looked towards the future of...

31 replies - 91115 views - 12/13/10 by Robert Diana in News

Daily Dose - Chrome OS Pushed to 2011

While Google originally intended to have Chrome OS-based netbooks ready by the holiday season, the manufacturers are now saying that we won't be seeing Chrome...

0 replies - 17694 views - 11/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Django 1.3 Goes Alpha

The well-known Python-based web framework, Django, has delivered its first preview release for version 1.3.  This next version will allow developers to use a...

1 replies - 21068 views - 11/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Scala 2.8.1 Release Goes Final

The first update to Scala's 2.8.x line is now generally available with a large number of bugfixes and several improvements.  The Scaladoc tool has seen the...

0 replies - 19663 views - 11/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring Roo's RooBot

Spring Roo 1.1 RC 1 was just released with nearly 300 enhancements since the milestone stage.  The latest release adds the "RooBot" client, which is...

1 replies - 22237 views - 10/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Mozilla Makes a Monster Benchmark

After its longstanding gripes with the over-valued SunSpider benchmark, Mozilla has finally made the first public version of their own benchmark.  They call...

1 replies - 20589 views - 09/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring 3.0.4 Supports Ehcache 2.2, EclipseLink 2.1, and More

The 3.0.4 update to Spring includes 80 different bugfixes and enhancements.  Some highlights include support for updated third-party tools like Hibernate Core...

0 replies - 24424 views - 08/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Check Out the EJB on That JBoss AS

The fourth JBoss Application Server 6.0 milestone was released this week.  It is the first to include support for EJB 3.1 Timer Service and EJB 3.1...

1 replies - 14144 views - 07/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Mercurial Rises to 1.6

The Mercurial version control system reached its 1.6 release this month, and is available for download here.  The DVCS sports two major new features in 1.6. ...

2 replies - 13050 views - 07/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Apple Sues HTC Some More

You might remember that Apple filed an infringement suit against handset-maker HTC earlier this year based on several patents.  Some saw this as an indirect...

0 replies - 13039 views - 06/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Fedora 13 Lands

After a one week delay in the release schedule, Fedora 13 is finally here.  Codenamed "Goddard," this open source Linux distro has several features...

0 replies - 12902 views - 05/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

0 replies - 21463 views - 04/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose