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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/23

lyndsey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:08:38 +0000

Firefox may release its upcoming version 3.6 as a so-called "minor update" even though it is actually a fairly major one. Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox at Mozilla, details the reasons for this unusual step on a Mozilla developer's list thread, but the short versio

Web Tech Skills PHP, Java, in High Demand

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:10:41 +0000

A new report released by the job site Elance shows a growth in tech contractor hiring, up 46% from this time last year on Elance.com. After job losses in IT rose to five percent last quarter, the Elance report is welcome reassurance. It's a testament to the strength of the tech sector one year after the recession hit hard in October 2008.

Oracle Taunts IBM with $10M Challenge

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:14:08 +0000

In the keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld this week, CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison fired back against rumors (that he believes were spread by IBM) about the future and performance of Solaris and Sun: "We are going to challenge any enterprise company to take one of its existing database applications, that it has not run, and if we cannot run that database application at least twice as fast on...

Oracle's Effect on Java

jsugrue — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:45:22 +0000

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something that Oracle have huge interest in, and will probably help nudge this along. Two things that I would really like to see are continued, and improved, investment into Java on the client side, as well as getting things back on track for Java 7.

A Bunch of Innovations in the Line of JetBrains Products (as of April 1st ;-))

ann — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:16:51 +0000

Several popular products from JetBrains have simultaneously introduced a bunch of innovations, to improve user experience and productivity.The brand-new Voice Control plugin for IntelliJ IDEA has gained the highest user rating during less than a day. Now you can associate a voice command with any action — just like a keyboard or mouse shortcut, and IntelliJ IDEA will literally listen to you,...

Flash Content Is Now Searchable

BenForta — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:54:12 +0000

Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data generated programmatically and at runtime. Lots of good info in the SWF Searchability FAQ. Google is the first to leverage this new ability, and some great Google-centric context can be found on the Google Webmaster Central

SWF is Searchable

sandbox — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:17:14 +0000

Adobe SWF files that run in the flash player will now be searchable. Adobe published SWF searchability FAQ earlier this morning explaining the details of what this implies.Web spiders will now be able to playback SWF(s) like users and cull out the data to add to their index. This annoucement has two huge impacts:

Oracle Claims $1b in Damages from Arch-Rival SAP

mog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:48:29 +0000

So It’s a Fight to the Last Algorithm Then

mog — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:06:09 +0000

Microsoft, which recently bought Fast Search, is buying the three-year-old semantic search engine start-up Powerset for $100 million, according to VentureBeat, which says it’s to “close the perceived quality gap with Google’s search engine.” Still, the natural language approach is a long shot. The only thing Powerset’s put out so far is a month-old service to search Wikipedia on...

Kernel Developers Want Linux Purity

mog — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:03:38 +0000

Not that long ago Linux barely had two drivers to rub together. Now it claims to support “more hardware devices than any other operating system in the history of the world” and, figuring it’s time to push IHVs to open their code, 150 Linux kernel developers, including Alan Cox, signed a “Position Statement” decrying the use of any closed source kernel module or drivers in...

Little ISV Sues Google for $1 Billion

mog — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:59:53 +0000

A little Chicago ISV called LimitNone is suing Google for nigh on to a billion dollar charging it with misappropriating its trade secrets to beat back Microsoft Office. Seems a year ago March LimitNone shared its mojo for migrating Outlook users and their calendars and contacts to Gmail with Google and according to LimitNone’s story the widgetry turned up in Google Apps despite...

Yahoo Looks to the Cloud for Some Salvation

mog — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:06:22 +0000

With the stock market crashing, or giving a good approximation of a crash Thursday, Yahoo, poor thing – well, it has behaved like a sick lost puppy, now hasn’t it – announced a reorganization just like its familiars in the press said it would. It is, as was widely observed, the company’s third or fourth attempt in the last 18 months or so – one loses count after a while –...

Nokia Pees on Android’s Slippers

mog — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:10 +0000

HP Open Sources Advanced File System

mog — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:33:25 +0000

HP has open sourced the Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) that it got from DEC by way of Compaq. It’s sent the 16-year-old Alpha-based source code, representing what it calls 400 R&D years, over to Sourceforge under the GPLv2 license as a reference implementation of an enterprise Linux file system. It says it will provide design documentation, test suites and engineering...

Salesforce & Google Create Multi-Cloud Platform

mog — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:22:21 +0000

Salesforce.com, which has already linked its CRM software to Google Apps and integrated AdWords tracking into its platform, is deploying a free new Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs so third-party developers can interact with data in Google services. The toolkit is supposed to bring together data and content in Google Apps with the database, logic and workflow capabilities in...