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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. ...

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.

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 - 2009/11/3

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

Java App Store Coming Soon!

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:56:34 +0000

Danny Coward, Chief Client Software Architect at Sun, blogs that the Java Store is almost ready to open its doors. Similar to Apple's app store, the Java store will be a place for developers to sell their Java and JavaFX-based applications. Sun hopes to attract about six million Java developers to submit applications to the Java store back-end, the Java Warehouse repository.

Fluent Navigation in JSF 2

mojavelinux — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:10:35 +0000

In this article, the third in a series covering JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0 features contributed by Red Hat, or which Red Hat participated in extensively, you'll discover that getting around in a JSF 2 application is much simpler and requires less typing. With improved support for GET requests and bookmarkability, which the previous article covered, JSF 2 is decidely more nimble. But not at the...

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?

JSF 2 GETs Bookmarkable URLs

mojavelinux — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:41:38 +0000

JSR-314: JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0 demonstrates a strong evolution of the JSF framework driven by de facto standards that emerged out of the JSF community and participating vendor's products.

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?"