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Daily Dose: Microsoft Buys Skype for a Cool $8.5 Billion

After several weeks of rumors, Microsoft has officially announced their plan to acquire Skype. The $8.5 billion dollar buy is the largest Microsoft has...

0 replies - 18827 views - 05/10/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: jQuery Creator Leaves Mozilla

John Resig has announced that he will no longer be acting as a JavaScript evangelist for Mozilla. He plans on scaling back his involvement with the jQuery...

0 replies - 22116 views - 05/05/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Release of jQuery 1.6

Version 1.6 of the jQuery, a widely-distributed JavaScript library, is ready for download. One of the most prominent improvements to jQuery 1.6 is the rewrite...

2 replies - 24638 views - 05/03/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: PHP Fog Ready to Go!

The PHP Fog, a cloud PaaS for PHP, will be available for developer download within the next 30 days. PHP Fog allows developers to easily scale their cloud...

2 replies - 26317 views - 04/28/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: CloudBees Extends Java PaaS to Private Cloud

CloudBees now supports OpenStack and vSphere. This new move will extend CloudBees' Java PaaS support to the private cloud environment, i.e. behind company...

0 replies - 21365 views - 04/26/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: JavaOne Set For October

The official dates of the JavaOne Conference have been announced by Oracle.  Speculation has still lingered around the future of the popular Java conference...

0 replies - 21377 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Ruby on Rails Will Now Support HTTP Streaming

The new release of the Ruby on Rails web development framework, version 3.1, will feature HTTP support.  This additional support will serve to improve overall...

0 replies - 23970 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Countdown to the End of XP Support

Microsoft XP is officially being retired.  To mark the date when Microsoft will officially withdraw support for XP, developers at the software giant have...

3 replies - 29229 views - 04/21/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: NetBeans 7.0 Has Java 7 Support

Oracle's newly released NetBeans 7.0 features support for Java 7 features.  The JDK 7 component of NetBeans 7.0 is technically an early access snapshot.  A...

2 replies - 29229 views - 04/20/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Hibernate Search 3.4 Upgrades to Lucene 3.1

Hibernate 3.4 has several notable new features, including an upgrade to the new Lucene 3.1.  The focus of this release was improved faceting.  By dividing...

1 replies - 27123 views - 04/19/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Oracle Brings New 'Coherence' to Data Grid Market

Coherence 3.7, Oracle's distributed in-memory data grid product, is available for early adopters today.  Since the last Coherence release, the Oracle...

0 replies - 18595 views - 04/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: OpenStack's Cactus Debuts

'Cactus', the third release of OpenStack's open source cloud operating system brings over 40 new features to OpenStack Compute, Object Storage, and Image...

0 replies - 20759 views - 04/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Flash Builder 4.5 In the Works

When it is released in May 2011, Adobe's Flash Builder 4.5 will create a single framework for web, desktop and mobile development. New features include special...

2 replies - 15073 views - 04/10/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Making Solr/Lucene 4.x Accessable - Lucid Imagination 1.7 Released

It's been less than a week since the long-awaited GA release of Apache Solr 3.1 and Lucene 3.1.  Well, it seems that Lucid Imagination is already looking...

0 replies - 13514 views - 04/07/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Couchbase Unveils New NoSQL Lineup for Mac OS X Developers

Developers using Mac OS X now have more options.  Couchbase is launching a new version of their Membase Server, and an upgraded version of their Couchbase...

3 replies - 12284 views - 04/05/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose