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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.

Has the Motorola Droid 'Force' Hit You?

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:44 +0000

The buzz surrounding Motorola's Droid, one of the most anticipated handsets to date, reached a deafening peak today. In an effort to compete with the iPhone, Motorola joined forces with Google and Verizon. Will the 'Force' be strong enough in the Droid? Well, since Motorola has to pay a fee to Lucasfilm just to use the term "Droid", they better get some 'Force' out of the deal. ...

Google Releases JavaScript Tools

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:51:36 +0000

It can be frustrating to write complex JavaScript programs when they don't work the same way on different browsers. Google, who makes extensive use of JavaScript in programs like Gmail and Google Docs, understands the difficulties in writing, debugging, and optimizing sizable JavaScript apps. To make JavaScript programming easier, Google has released its set of Closure Tools for JavaScript. ...

Social Computing: Let the Bots Talk!

peter.neubauer.myopenid.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:57:08 +0000

With connected devices, JavaScript enabled web sites and the extensibility of the XMPP protocol, we are at the beginning of a new breed of applications that are operating in the social context of their owners. Google Wave is just the first well known application doing other-than-chatting things on top of XMPP.References Reference: Social Computing...

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.

WebKit Gets New Developer Tools

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:45:11 +0000

The open source WebKit browser just got some new developer tools and upgrades. WebKit's latest Nightly Builds include a new Web Inspector, Storage Panel, and Sidebar Pane called Event Listeners. Safari, Chrome, and the Palm WebOS browser all use the WebKit browser engine.Web Inspector

Apache Celebrates 10 Years

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:00:45 +0000

In just ten years, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has become a prominent beacon of open source development. At the ApacheCon 2009 conference this week, Apache is celebrating ten years of operation with 65 projects under its wing, 33 projects in the Apache Incubator, and over two dozen codebases in the Apache Labs. The official anniversary date was in March during a convention in...

Exclusive Interview: Adobe Technical Evangelist James Ward

nbharti78 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:42 +0000

In this interview, recorded at Adobe MAX 2009, Adobe Technical Evangelist James Ward talks about some of his recent work driving Flex adoption at large companies such as IBM, Oracle, SAP and SalesForce.com. James describes how he helped open and extend SaleForce's CRM application platform to support the deployment of Flex apps on the cloud. He also talks about some of the new and interesting...

Data-centric Flex Development with the Tide framework

wdrai — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:05:29 +0000

Flex provides various means of exchanging data with a remote server that virtually allows you to integrate a Flex application with any kind of server technology. It's quite easy to retrieve some data from a server, bind it to UI components and send back the modified data to the server, all this using RemoteObject, Web services or any other technique. So why would you want to bother with yet...

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...

New .NET Features from Telerik

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:39:14 +0000

Telerik, a .NET development tool vendor, revealed its latest list of releases. The list includes Silverlight advances and ORM support for SQL Azure. Telerik says its OpenAccess ORM is now the only ORM that fully supports the SQL Azure database. OpenAccess ORM

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.

In a Bold Move, Yahoo! Releases Traffic Server Source Code

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:58:43 +0000

Yahoo has released the source code for its Traffic Server under the Apache Foundation Umbrella. Shelton Shugar, Yahoo's senior VP of cloud computing, announced the move today at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara. Traffic Server is a HTTP/1.1 caching proxy server capable of handing over 30,000 requests per second per server.

The $10k Code Challenge

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:14:41 +0000

Up for a challenge? How about $10,000? Visual WebGui is offering $10,000 and giving away prizes for developers who submit a Webmail application written by another framework with fewer lines of code than their Webmail. Developers can register online from anywhere in the world. Special prizes will be given to those who sign up at Visual WebGui's PDC booth, #3

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