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Mitch Pronschinske04/04/10
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Daily Dose - Opera Alerts Microsoft About IE, Microsoft Criticizes Chrome

Opera has notified the EU and Microsoft about a potential problem in Microsoft's European browser ballot, according to the Register. Opera says that the ballot screen is being hidden behind an IE configuration wizard in a few cases. Those cases occur if a...

Mitch Pronschinske04/03/10
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How to Make Vim Productive: vi Tips and Tricks

Vim and other vi editors can make developers super productive if they know some of the key tips and tricks to using them. vi has a lot of power and depth, but if you don't have a basic understanding of the language that vi speaks, you won't get any more...

Mitch Pronschinske04/02/10
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Daily Dose - We Live in a World Where There Are iPads

Apple's "next big thing" was released in stores today, but the apps have been available since yesterday. These pre-release apps included Netflix streaming movies, the ABC player, a Marvel Comics reader, and a VNC client that wirelessly connects to...

Mitch Pronschinske04/01/10
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Daily Dose - Mozilla Research Says Firefox Just Under 40% Market Share in Europe

The Mozilla Metrics blog announced the publishing of the foundation's first ever quarterly analyst report on browser share and other internet insights. The report says that Firefox currently has a global market share of nearly 30% and in Europe, that share...

Mitch Pronschinske04/01/10
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Case Study: How OSS Helped One Startup Beat Larger Companies

Many companies are still not comfortable with using a software solution unless they are paying for it. However, tech companies that use mainly Open Source Software in their development stack, once a rarity, are now becoming more common. The overall...

Mitch Pronschinske03/31/10
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Daily Dose - OSS Victory in Italy, But Trouble Brewing in EU

A law passed by an Italian regional council that made preferences for choosing free software in government systems was recently upheld in a national court. The Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers challenged the law saying it was...

Mitch Pronschinske03/30/10
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Daily Dose - Novell Keeps Unix Copyrights; Linux is Safe

A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Novell owns the Unix copyrights, and not SCO. In the 7-year court battle, SCO claimed that copyrights transferred from their predecessor, the Santa Cruz Operation, to them. In the court ruling, the judge said that...

Mitch Pronschinske03/29/10
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Daily Dose - Councilman Offers to Name Children After Google Founders for Fiber-Optic Network

You may have heard that Google is looking for deserving US cities and towns to host their experimental 1GBps fiber-optic networks. The competition for these networks is getting intense… and weird. One local government official in Raleigh, North Carolina...

Mitch Pronschinske03/28/10
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10 Properties of Kanban

Kanban pioneer David Anderson recently submitted a manuscript of his new book for copy editing. The book is titled "Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for Technology Organizations," and it is the first complete and formal documentation of...

Mitch Pronschinske03/28/10
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Daily Dose - Solaris 10 License Change

At some point during the Oracle-Sun integration, Solaris 10 had a change in its usage terms which has caused some confusion on tech news sites and blogs. The change is described in this quote from the licensing terms: "Once you have completed the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/26/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe Teases with CS5 Release Date

Adobe has launched a teaser site announcing the release date of Creative Suite 5. The site contains several videos introducing a handful of new features, but the pricing, specs, and other features are being kept under wraps until the launch date...

Mitch Pronschinske03/25/10
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Daily Dose - De Icaza Interview About .Net Taken Down

In an article titled "Does Windows cost Microsoft opportunities" by the SD Times, Novell VP and Mono Project lead Miguel de Icaza had some strong opinions about Microsoft's handling of the .NET platform. For reasons unknown, the article has been...

Mitch Pronschinske03/25/10
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Klocwork Beefs Up Security in Agile Source Analysis

The vulnerability analysis features in Klocwork's products were recently strengthened to align with industry and government best practices. Klocwork is a static analysis suite for agile development projects in Java, C#, C and C++. Their tools check for...

Mitch Pronschinske03/24/10
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Daily Dose - AWS Releases Java SDK for EC2, S3, and More

Amazon announced an update for its Eclipse toolkit at EclipseCon along with a new Java SDK. The development kit is a single JAR that helps developers manage integrations to Amazon's many services. Amazon's code handles all the low-level authentication,...

Mitch Pronschinske03/23/10
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Daily Dose - Opera Submits its Mini Browser to Apple, Now We Wait

Opera has finally announced its submission of the latest Opera Mini browser to the App store for use on the iPhone. The mini browser is not a full featured browser but it does have a speed advantage, especially in low bandwidth situations. It runs...