
A Critical Chrome Performance Review
For a browser that is widely considered the fastest, Alex Hastings has some quite contrary data. His review...
0 replies - 4045 views - 02/26/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Java and James Gosling Didn't Screw Us All
In response to Charlie Kindel's blog: "'Write Once…' is Anti-Customer" Ted Neward agreed with most points...
0 replies - 3902 views - 02/25/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The latest version of the Eclipse development enviroment, version 3.8M1, was released today. The IDE is now on par with IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 and Netbeans 7.0.1...
0 replies - 21834 views - 08/08/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

LinkedIn, the popular social networking site for professionals, is going public! Selling at $45 per share, the 7.84 million shares total to an amazing $352.8...
0 replies - 24177 views - 05/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Clearing cookies out of your web browser just got a bit easier. Easier if you're using Google Chrome, that is. Local Shared Objects, or "Flash...
0 replies - 23195 views - 04/27/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

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 - 29263 views - 04/21/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Oracle warned us that Java.net would be in a bug-fixing phase for the first few weeks following the migration. That didn't discourage many community members...
1 replies - 20738 views - 03/16/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Cellphone-based gameplay has just leveled up. (As if we needed more of an excuse to play Angry Birds at work.) The Havok physics engine for Android 2.3 will...
0 replies - 24226 views - 03/07/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1 has been released
to the general public. This open-source version of GlassFish
includes full clustering and...
3 replies - 19511 views - 03/01/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Less than a year after Microsoft was forced to provide that "browser ballot" on setup (for Europe only), their browser (Internet Explorer) has lost...
0 replies - 21672 views - 01/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

In a big surprise from Microsoft, Principal Researcher Don Syme announced that their relatively young functional programming language for the .NET platform,...
1 replies - 18688 views - 11/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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 - 22291 views - 10/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Philippe Le Hegaret, a World Wide Web Consortium domain leader says it's too early for browsers to be settling on unconfirmed HTML5-related specification...
2 replies - 19364 views - 10/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Google's golang.org website for exploring their new programming language now includes a new feature called the Go Playground. The Playground allows anyone to...
0 replies - 18948 views - 09/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

After four months in beta, the first release candidate of the open source database, PostgreSQL, is ready for download. PostgreSQL 9.0 includes some awesome...
0 replies - 21617 views - 09/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose