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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...

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 ...

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

Migration tool SQL Ways reaches 4.0

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:23:44 +0000

A new version of SQL Ways has just been announced by Ispirer Systems. SQL Ways converts embedded SQL and database API without having to extract SQL statements and convert them separately. Developers can also use SQL Ways to migrate database schema, stored procedures, and triggers between major databases.

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?"

Oracle Reveals Plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, and VirtualBox

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:50:52 +0000

More revealing statements have finally surfaced about Oracle's future plans for popular Java tools. Oracle recently updated its FAQ on the future of Sun technologies. Glassfish, OpenOffice, NetBeans and VirtualBox were just some of the items mentioned. Here are some specifics on each project:NetBeans

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.

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.

NoSQL – A Fluid Architecture in Transition

dnene — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:45:40 +0000

Lot of talk about NoSQL. Much of it well deserved. And while lot of the excitement around it is well understood by those in the know, some of it may actually be confusing to those who are relatively new to the matter. This post is actually for the latter group – not to argue for or against NoSQL – just to put it in perspective. What is NoSQL : Some of the characteristics shared by most if not...