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Daily Dose - RabbitMQ 2.0 Upgrades to AMQP 0.9.1

The RabbitMQ messaging system, which was recently be acquired by VMware's SpringSource, has reached version 2.0.  The AMQP-based system has a new persister...

0 replies - 22635 views - 08/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Adobe's McAllister Speaks Out Against Oracle

In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or...

0 replies - 22181 views - 08/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - iPad Rival Running Chrome OS Arriving in November?

Several reports are saying that the Chrome operating system will be here by the end of November.  That's because on November 26th, Google plans to release a...

0 replies - 24109 views - 08/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Vim Increases Vigor

Two years have passed since the release of Vim 7.2, and today version 7.3 is here with a few improvements, but nothing major.  Vim has remained a consistently...

0 replies - 21098 views - 08/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google to Oracle: 'Bring it'

In a statement sent out to the media late last week, Google announced its intentions to defend open source and protect Android (and the Dalvik JVM) against the...

1 replies - 22826 views - 08/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Meerkat Becoming More 'Mavericky'

The third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" is upon us.  Based on the 2.6.35 Linux kernel, Ubuntu 10.10 a3 has updated to GNOME 2.31...

0 replies - 15504 views - 08/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google Plans Licensing Server to Protect Android Apps

By introducing a central licensing server on the Android Marketplace, Google hopes to provide an effective method for protecting Android apps that can...

0 replies - 12926 views - 07/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Rails 3 Arrives at First RC Station

Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers.  That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first...

0 replies - 15488 views - 07/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Push Notifications: Standards Coming

Real time alerts are a wonderful convenience in today's native apps, but now the W3C wants to bring this functionality to web apps.  This week they formed a...

0 replies - 13734 views - 07/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - GlassFish 3.0.1 Supports JRockit, OEL, and More

Although this "100 day" release of GlassFish 3.0.1 is relatively minor, there are several features that make this version noteworthy.  First,...

0 replies - 14581 views - 06/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - More Firefox 4 Features Leak Into Preview

The Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 developer preview was released this week with the 1.9.3 alpha of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.  This release includes some...

0 replies - 13293 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Winds of Change Blow for the OSI

Simon Phipps acknowledged some of the "stone throwing" aimed at the Open Source Initiative.  Some of the criticism, he said, was not without...

2 replies - 11859 views - 06/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - What is Chromoting?

An official Google message posted by a non-Google party revealed a thin client functionality called Chromoting (unofficially).  Chromoting will be built into...

0 replies - 13452 views - 06/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - iPad Owners Exposed to Spam and Hacks

A security breach exposed an exclusive email list of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers, which included White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Diane Sawyer of...

0 replies - 15362 views - 06/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - GNOME 3.0: Which Modules Made the Cut?

Project release manager Vincent Untz posted a synopsis of the new modules that will be included in GNOME 3.0.  The GNOME Activity Journal didn't make the cut...

0 replies - 14668 views - 06/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose