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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 - 2009/11/3

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?

Top Open Source ESB Projects

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:23:49 +0000

In today's software markets, open source technologies are giving commercial products some stiff competition. Enterprise Service Busses are no exception. Don Rippert, the chief technology officer at Accenture says, "ESBs are software products that allow you to create a business process with web services running on different platforms." Rippert believes an ESB is essential for...

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 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.

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...

ScalaTest 1.0 Release "A Path Forward" to Scala

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:57:34 +0000

Scala has made a name for itself recently with the announcement in April that Twitter was in the process of converting their back-end from Ruby to Scala. The "scalable language" has proven that it can handle code for web giants like Twitter and LinkedIn through its highly performative handling of multi-core apps and its malleable patterns. "It has the conciseness of a dynamic...

MacRuby 0.5 Pulls the Plug on YARV

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:24:04 +0000

Sweeping changes to the 0.4 version of MacRuby are now ready for public testing in the first beta of MacRuby 0.5. Most notably, the new MacRuby has removed YARV in favor of the open source LLVM. MacRuby is essentially the 1.9 version of Ruby ported to run on Mac OS X.Laurent Sansonetti, a writer for the MacRuby blog, explains why they pulled the plug on YARV:

Charles Oliver Nutter on "Ruby Mutants"

puredanger — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:15:47 +0000

The Strange Loop conference is a unique software developer conference in St. Louis featuring excellent speakers and a wide variety of languages and technologies. This interview with Charles discusses his Strange Loop talk "Ruby Mutants", which will explore his Ruby-Java hybrid languages Duby and Juby.References Reference: Originally...

Introducing the Strange Loop Conference - Oct 22 - 23, St Louis

CodeJustin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:15:16 +0000

6:13 minutes (5.69 MB)DZone sat down with Alex Miller to talk about his upcoming conference Strange Loop. The Strange Loop conference was started by Alex to bring developers from all sides of the spectrum together in St.