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Daily Dose: Solr/Lucene Luminaries Launch First Certification for Open Source Search

Developers hoping to land a job employing Search architecture can now get a leg up on the competition. Lucid Imagination has announced their new certification...

0 replies - 17516 views - 05/13/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Microsoft Buys Skype for a Cool $8.5 Billion

After several weeks of rumors, Microsoft has officially announced their plan to acquire Skype. The $8.5 billion dollar buy is the largest Microsoft has...

0 replies - 18969 views - 05/10/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: jQuery Creator Leaves Mozilla

John Resig has announced that he will no longer be acting as a JavaScript evangelist for Mozilla. He plans on scaling back his involvement with the jQuery...

0 replies - 22269 views - 05/05/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Oracle Plans to Transfer Hudson IP to Eclipse

Is it surprising news?  You'll have to decide.  Oracle is now proposing that the Hudson open source CI Engine, which was recently gutted when many...

7 replies - 16386 views - 05/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose: Release of jQuery 1.6

Version 1.6 of the jQuery, a widely-distributed JavaScript library, is ready for download. One of the most prominent improvements to jQuery 1.6 is the rewrite...

2 replies - 24839 views - 05/03/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: PHP Fog Ready to Go!

The PHP Fog, a cloud PaaS for PHP, will be available for developer download within the next 30 days. PHP Fog allows developers to easily scale their cloud...

2 replies - 26507 views - 04/28/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: CloudBees Extends Java PaaS to Private Cloud

CloudBees now supports OpenStack and vSphere. This new move will extend CloudBees' Java PaaS support to the private cloud environment, i.e. behind company...

0 replies - 21515 views - 04/26/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: JavaOne Set For October

The official dates of the JavaOne Conference have been announced by Oracle.  Speculation has still lingered around the future of the popular Java conference...

0 replies - 21523 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Ruby on Rails Will Now Support HTTP Streaming

The new release of the Ruby on Rails web development framework, version 3.1, will feature HTTP support.  This additional support will serve to improve overall...

0 replies - 24128 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Countdown to the End of XP Support

Microsoft XP is officially being retired.  To mark the date when Microsoft will officially withdraw support for XP, developers at the software giant have...

3 replies - 29380 views - 04/21/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: NetBeans 7.0 Has Java 7 Support

Oracle's newly released NetBeans 7.0 features support for Java 7 features.  The JDK 7 component of NetBeans 7.0 is technically an early access snapshot.  A...

2 replies - 29400 views - 04/20/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Hibernate Search 3.4 Upgrades to Lucene 3.1

Hibernate 3.4 has several notable new features, including an upgrade to the new Lucene 3.1.  The focus of this release was improved faceting.  By dividing...

1 replies - 27279 views - 04/19/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Oracle Brings New 'Coherence' to Data Grid Market

Coherence 3.7, Oracle's distributed in-memory data grid product, is available for early adopters today.  Since the last Coherence release, the Oracle...

0 replies - 18735 views - 04/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: OpenStack's Cactus Debuts

'Cactus', the third release of OpenStack's open source cloud operating system brings over 40 new features to OpenStack Compute, Object Storage, and Image...

0 replies - 20906 views - 04/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Flash Builder 4.5 In the Works

When it is released in May 2011, Adobe's Flash Builder 4.5 will create a single framework for web, desktop and mobile development. New features include special...

2 replies - 15198 views - 04/10/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose