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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.

Can't Buy Me SOA - Herbjorn Wilhelmsen at Oredev 2009

nbharti78 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:27:59 +0000

Here at the Oredev 2009 conference in Malmo, Sweden, I had the chance to connect with Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, one of the members of the SOA Manifesto Working Group. Herbjorn presented a 'lightning talk' on the Manifesto, describing its vision and overarching values. While 15 minutes is far from enough time to cover a document of such constitutional magnitude (he wasn't able to go over all...

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.

Miko Matsumura: The Role, Risk, and Future of Cloud Computing

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:54:12 +0000

Developers are always looking for, and sometimes making, the next tool that will simplify or eliminate steps in building an application. Abstractions are necessary for eliminating tedious and time consuming tasks. Cloud computing has proved to be a great tool for this.

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...

Book Review: Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

jamfisk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:38:59 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 1847196284 Book Author(s): Hector R. Madrid Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: June 2009 Rating ...

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?

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?"

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/28

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Amazon says it will cut prices on its core EC2 cloud services starting November 1st. You can tell they are getting anxious about the impending release of Windows Azure, which will also happen in November. Amazon also announced the beta offering of its MySQL hosted Relational Database Service to compete with Azure's SQL database hosting and third-parties on EC2.

New in Amazon's Cloud: MySQL Hosted Service

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:17:30 +0000

Today Amazon Web Services introduced Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS), a new hosted relational database service currently in beta. The new service allows you to create a DB instance of MySQL 5.1 in Amazon's cloud. With a single API call, the service lets you scale the processing power and storage space as needed.