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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:43:04 +0000

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today. According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures won't have control-invocation statements as a goal and it won't include non-local returns. Reinhold also indicated that access to non-final variables was unlikely.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:57:25 +0000

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were submitted to Sun over the last few years and now early reports say the starting point for Java closures will be the FCM v0.5 proposa

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open source. The TCP/IP stack and cryptography stack are still closed, however, because a third-party owns the software. The .Net Micro framework is a development and execution environment for small devices.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Mark your calendars! The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. Register here for a chance to present at either conference.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/16

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights. Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple machines. Apparently, Psystar didn't read the Mac OS X end user license agreement, which states that the Mac OS may only be installed on Apple computers.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be? Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. Reporters have been asking Florian Mueller for his prediction for quite a while now and he finally answered: Novell. However, Novell was introduced to open source by a loan from IBM, and it seems Oracle is unlikely to spin off MySQL to a friend...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor? Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card? It drives eight monitors, each at 2560 x 1600 pixels. If eight monitors isn't enough, try combining two for a seamless, 16 monitor desktop.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/12

lyndsey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It", recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York Times. Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt told Auletta that they had discussed the prospect but decided against it because they thought it might undermine Google's neutrality. Auletta said Google was interested in the Times...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/11

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Google has until the end of the week to revise its book deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers. A judge extended the deadline after criticisms from competitors and regulators forced Google to revise the terms of the settlement. It seems that digitizing libraries full of books is a tough bill to pass in the face of antitrust and copyright law.

EU Rejects Snoracle - Larry Vows to Fight!

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:10:50 +0000

Oracle and the EU are escalating their legal battle over the Sun acquisition. The EU took the first step towards blocking the merger Monday with a formal Statement of Objections. Oracle immediately responded with a statement of its own, saying the EU has a "profound misunderstanding" about competition in the database market and "open source dynamics". Sources

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/10

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Today is the 5 year anniversary of Firefox 1.0. Thousands of add-ons have been contributed over the years because Firefox's XUL based architecture makes it easy for developers to write extensions. Firefox's 3.5 version is now the second most popular web browser behind Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.6 is due to for release very soon.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/9

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

An SAP spokesperson confirmed that the company's CEO Leo Apotheker sent a letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison less than two weeks after the EU antitrust probe began. A Wall Street Journal editorial speculates about the letter's intent in relation to a suit that Oracle had pending against SAP, saying "The timing of the letter suggests that Mr.

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...