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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun. Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five years while he worked at Sun. This departure comes just four months after two JRuby developers left Sun, citing the uncertainty surrounding the Oracle acquisition as their reason.

TreeViewer: Two Clicks to Edit

dgreen99 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:29:45 +0000

TreeViewer is the foundation behind most trees and tree tables found in Eclipse. It provides excellent extensibility and options for customization. One feature, in-place editing of tree nodes, is very useful -- however the default implementation activates editing on the first click. This can be frustrating and unintuitive to users who expect the first click to select a node, and the second click...

The Power to Make Things Better

wayner42 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:10:02 +0000

One of the things that I quite like about my new job at the Eclipse Foundation is the feeling that I can make a difference in the lives of committers, adopters, users, and the broader community. Actually… check that. It’s not me that’s making the difference. Individuals and project teams seem to be stepping up all over the place to make things better. Change is happening at the Foundation. ...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well. uSocial says companies can improve audiences by buying a bunch of views rather than getting them organically. They claim that this 'seed method' can spur even more traffic. Prices start at $127 for 5,000 views.

Wonderful New World of UI Design at Eclipse

ekke — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:40:26 +0000

If you’re following e4 developer list discussions you know that there are some new tools and frameworks to design UI in eclipse. These are great news for all developers of RCP or RAP applications per ex. Sometimes discussions at e4 dev-list sounds like a war between different UI concepts – curious what will find the way into e4. Here are some interesting concepts of a (model-driven) UI: ...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report. Just a few weeks ago, the EU's Competition Commissioner reprimanded Oracle for making no effort to address concerns about owning MySQL, the worlds fastest growing open source database. Since Oracle hasn't budged on its intentions to keep MySQL as part of the deal, the...

Eclipse Days in Toronto

ian skerrett — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:29:24 +0000

Developers in Toronto have a great opportunity to participate in back-to-back Eclipse events: Eclipse Modeling and EclipseRT Day on November 18 & 19. Think of it as a mini-EclipseCon but with polite Canadians saying ‘eh’, ‘pop’ and ‘about’.References James Sugrue

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/4

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:45:42 +0000

Adobe is lashing out at Apple on its Flash Player page for the iPhone. When you go to the Flash Player on your iPhone, the text now says "Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/3

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

An open source version of the Linux Skype client has been confirmed and is currently under development. A Skype blog says that the open sourcing of the UI will speed up development and allow the use of any GUI toolkit. Skype says this initial open source offering is part of a "larger offering," but they haven't said what this larger of

Fluent Navigation in JSF 2

mojavelinux — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:10:35 +0000

In this article, the third in a series covering JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0 features contributed by Red Hat, or which Red Hat participated in extensively, you'll discover that getting around in a JSF 2 application is much simpler and requires less typing. With improved support for GET requests and bookmarkability, which the previous article covered, JSF 2 is decidely more nimble. But not at the...

Check Out Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) M3

jsugrue — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:58:06 +0000

The latest milestone for next year's Eclipse release train is available now. There's even a staging area available where you can download the extra bundles that you want to use in your installation.The New and Noteworthy will get you up to date on what's new, but if you've missed the last 2 milestones, here's a quick rundown some of the best new features that are available:References ...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company. It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition could be blocked by the European Commission. Oracle recently withdrew notification of the acquisition from Russia's antitrust authority to wait for the EU ruling. Now that Oracle has drawn a line in the sand, saying it will keep My

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/31

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:51:50 +0000

ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for worldwide domain names and IP addresses, has decided to allow the introduction of non-Latin characters into domain names. ICANN chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, says its the biggest technical change to the Internet in four decades. The change will be especially welcome in Asia, where over 42 percent of world Internet users are located. Though some think...

Who Was at Eclipse Summit Europe?

ian skerrett — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:10:13 +0000

Each year we ask the attendees of Eclipse Summit Europe some questions about themselves. It gives us some insight into who is actually attending the conference. Here are some of the results. 1. Where do people live? Not surprisingly, a lot of the ESE attendees are from Germany; in total 57% of the attendees resides in Germany but 24 other countries are represented. In addition to...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last. The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface instead of HAL. For a full walkthrough of the features, check out this guided tour of Ubutnu 9.10 "Karmic Koala." Who knew Koalas believed in Karma?