Twitter began using NoSQL last year as it rolled its systems onto the widely popular Cassandra system (used by large web properties such as Digg and...
0 replies - 13934 views - 06/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Google switched the custom license for their WebM package to the OSI-approved BSD license this weekend. The Open Source Initiative had some issues with the...
0 replies - 11770 views - 06/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
I can't call myself an "agilist", as I'm rather a hybrid kind of software architect. But I like many aspects of the agile methods and I constantly...
3 replies - 3629 views - 06/03/10 by Fabrizio Giudici in News
After losing two leaders of the Android project, Google is filling the void with the lead designer of Palm's WebOS, Matias Duarte. Duarte, a UI master, will...
0 replies - 15097 views - 05/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The first release candidate for the NoSQL data store, Redis, is now available with new features such as significant performance optimizations, a new test...
3 replies - 14250 views - 05/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
This week Cedric Beust, a Senior Android Software Engineer, and Erick Tseng, the Android Senior Product Manager, left Google to join LinkedIn and Facebook...
6 replies - 18705 views - 05/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
David Flanagan doesn't seem to think so. The programming consultant and writer for O'Reilly Media shared some frustrating observations about the lack of...
0 replies - 20705 views - 05/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Adobe is encouraging employees to eat their own mobile dogfood by giving them all free Android phones (which will soon be running Flash 10.1) at the Google I/O...
0 replies - 16040 views - 05/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The official Linux tree will be getting a nice present from Google very soon. The company recently assigned two developers to begin integrating features back...
0 replies - 15791 views - 04/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Google has just granted a patent license to the Apache Hadoop distributed computing framework, which uses a MapReduce process similar to Google's recently...
2 replies - 19216 views - 04/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Stats from androlib.com show that the Android Marketplace has surpassed 50k Apps, and app production has been accelerating. In December there were around...
0 replies - 15817 views - 04/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A new Google App Engine SDK for Java and Python was released this week. The 1.3.3 version includes changes and issue fixes for the data store, admin console,...
0 replies - 17010 views - 04/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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
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
Tech blogger and XML co-inventor, Tim Bray, recently posted about his new job with Google's Android development team. In his blog, which is now a "No-Evil...
0 replies - 21266 views - 03/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
