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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.

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

DaveMBush — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:53:49 +0000

“Programmers are craftspeople trained to use a certain set of tools (editors, object managers, version trackers) to generate a certain kind of product (programs) that will operate in some environment (operating systems on hardware assemblies). Like any other craft, computer programming has spawned a body of wisdom, most of which isn’t taught at universities or in certification classes. Most...

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.

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

The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing

Psychlist1972 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:44:58 +0000

I’ve always been interested in ways that your PC can reach outside itself and interact with things in the world. That’s what fueled my interest in CNC, as well as things like Lego robotics, and the new sensor and location API.References Reference: The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing ...

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.

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

StackOverflow DevDays in London

simonech — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:32:46 +0000

Last Wednesday I was at the StackOverflow DevDays event in London (and the AltNetBeers afterward), and finally this weekend I was able to collect my thoughts and find the time to write my review.References Reference: StackOverflow DevDays in London alashcraft

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

Access a Control by ID From Within a Databound Control

DaveMBush — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:38:27 +0000

Databound controls are at once very easy and very frustrating. If you just need to do some simple databinding that gets a list of items on the screen and you need the ability to edit those items, you are all set. But once you need to do anything that deviates from that simple pattern, you are kind of stuck. One of the problems involves accessing a control in a templated item. ...

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...

Creating Launcher Scripts for IronRuby

casualjim — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:33:22 +0000

It’s been a while since I blogged, I’ve been terribly busy going through some changes and prepping the book.References Reference: Creating Launcher Scripts for IronRuby alashcraft

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?