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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.

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...

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

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...

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?

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software. It took them six years to clarify this after a 2003 memorandum implied that the DoD shouldn't use open source. Yet another example of speedy government bureaucracy. This just in: "Will open source software in the Dept. of Defence lower taxes?"

NetBeans 6.8: A Few of Your Favorite Things

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:16:04 +0000

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens" didn't make the cut, but what are a few of your favorite things about the upcoming NetBeans 6.8? DZone has rounded up NetBeans developers and users to tell us what they like about the new beta version and how they're using the new features. The comments reveal the diversity of uses and features in the new NetBeans IDE.

NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta Available for Download!

TinuA — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:04:35 +0000

The NetBeans team is pleased to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta.

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

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/22

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:34:26 +0000

According to Amazon, the world's biggest software company has also racked up the largest number of pre-orders of any product, EVER! That's right, Amazon says Microsoft's Windows 7 release is the most pre-ordered product in the e-tailer's history (yes, including the last Harry Potter book!). Looks like Redmond hasn't lost its touch.

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.

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:43:51 +0000

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday. Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been writing extensively on the capabilities and usage of NetBeans as an IDE and a platform. His research on the usage of the NetBeans platform has revealed a wide array of applications. It has led him to create his own acronym, YANPA (Yet...