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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/21

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:13 +0000

The Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest computing system according to the TOP500 rankings. The Jaguar grabbed the number one spot from IBM after upgrading roughly 250,000 processors from quad-core Opterons to six-core Istanbul Opterons. The system, which is used by the US Department of Energy, delivers a performance of 1.75...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:43:04 +0000

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today. According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures won't have control-invocation statements as a goal and it won't include non-local returns. Reinhold also indicated that access to non-final variables was unlikely.

Silverlight 4 Gets Top Requested Features

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:24:51 +0000

The immediate release of Silverlight 4 Beta was just announced at Microsoft's PDC conference. The new version comes on the heels of Silverlight 3, which was released four months ago. The version 4 beta includes many of the top requested features from Silverlight developers.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:57:25 +0000

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were submitted to Sun over the last few years and now early reports say the starting point for Java closures will be the FCM v0.5 proposa

Free Tool for Deep AJAX Analysis

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:13:03 +0000

In web development, knowledge is power. Without a decent AJAX diagnostic tool, it's hard to know what's slowing down your site. Even basic performance monitoring tools don't give developers all the information they need. AJAX frameworks are pushing more logic into the browser and becoming more important for running Web 2.0 technologies. For this reason, a sophisticated AJAX diagnostic...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open source. The TCP/IP stack and cryptography stack are still closed, however, because a third-party owns the software. The .Net Micro framework is a development and execution environment for small devices.

Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 Betas Arrive

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:48:46 +0000

Adobe Labs just unveiled two new beta releases for the Adobe Flash Platform. Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 betas are currently availble for Mac, Windows, and Linux. The new versions were previewed in October at the Adobe MAXFlash Player 10.1

Adobe's Ben Forta on ColdFusion 9, CF Adoption Trends

nbharti78 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:24:04 +0000

DZone recently caught up with Ben Forta, ColdFusion guru and renowned book author to discuss the state of the ColdFusion market, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform. While ColdFusion plays a pivotal role in many heterogeneous environments as 'middleware glue', it is increasingly becoming the platform of choice for standalone Web application and RIA development. ColdFusion 9...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Mark your calendars! The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. Register here for a chance to present at either conference.

Inside the New Apache Solr

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:32:36 +0000

In 2006, Solr was donated to the Apache Foundation and integrated into the Lucene project. Apache Solr is an enterprise search platform that powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. It harnesses the popular Apache Lucene Java search library, which has over 3,000 installations. With the recent release of Solr 1.4, DZone conducted an exclusive...

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter Download: Flex 3 in Action

lyndsey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:15:31 +0000

DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an exclusive chapter from 'Flex 3 in Action' (by Tariq Ahmed). This chapter covers ActionScript's core concepts. It discusses comments, variable types, operators, loops, conditions, arrays, and functions.

Integrating PHP with Flash Collaboration Services

ryanstewart — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:18:55 +0000

Adobe recently announced the availability of a framework called LiveCycle Collaboration Services (LCCS). With LCCS you can create real-time collaborative applications with Flash. It includes the ability to create applications with video chat, whiteboard collaboration, or build your own custom components that support real-time collaboration.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/16

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

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights. Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple machines. Apparently, Psystar didn't read the Mac OS X end user license agreement, which states that the Mac OS may only be installed on Apple computers.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be? Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. Reporters have been asking Florian Mueller for his prediction for quite a while now and he finally answered: Novell. However, Novell was introduced to open source by a loan from IBM, and it seems Oracle is unlikely to spin off MySQL to a friend...

Will SPDY Make the Internet Faster?

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:29:10 +0000

Right now, Google is working on an application-layer protocol aimed at making web pages download twice as fast. Google revealed the early-stage research on its SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", protocol this week. Initial tests of SPDY show that the top 25 websites loaded 55% faster than HTTP.