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Daily Dose - What's New in Emacs 24?

As the nightly builds for Emacs 24 start to churn out, developers can expect some cool new features.  These features include UI changes, custom themes,...

0 replies - 27230 views - 01/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Apple Making 3 iPad 2s?

According to an unnamed source, Apple could be planning to release three different versions of the iPad 2 next year: Wi-Fi only, UMTS + Wi-Fi, and CDMA.  The...

0 replies - 26113 views - 12/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - No More IDEs in F#'s Future?

MonoDevelop has recently added support for the recently open sourced F# .NET programming language.  Mono is the likely steward of the language, as they are...

2 replies - 26377 views - 12/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Git Usage Spreads Through JBoss and SpringSource

A lot of interest is moving towards Git and leaving Subversion for big names in Java like JBoss and SpringSource.  Spring recently wrote two articles covering...

0 replies - 24901 views - 12/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Weld Extensions 3.0 Beta 1 Now Available; Renamed "Seam Solder"

Early on there was some confusion about what Weld Extensions is and how it differs from Weld, and how it fits into Seam.  Well JBoss is clearing up some...

0 replies - 23979 views - 12/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - WebM Available for 80% of YouTube Daily Videos

According to Google's John Luther, over 80% of daily YouTube videos are now available in WebM: a completely free and open source codec pack for HTML5 video. ...

0 replies - 22640 views - 11/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Fuse OSS Leaves the Nest

This week Progress Software watched proudly as their FuseSource division declared its ability to stand on its own two feet.  The open source organization,...

1 replies - 11131 views - 10/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 and Supporting Tools Launch

The GA releases of Spring Roo 1.1, GWT 2.1, STS 2.5, and new AspectJ and AJDT versions have been launched this week after many months of synchronized...

0 replies - 22712 views - 10/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

WSO2 Unveils its Own IDE

Starting today, developers using WSO2's Apache-licensed SOA components will be able to add even more customization to their systems.  That's because WSO2 now...

0 replies - 9814 views - 10/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - Chromium OS on the iPad

A developer who provides nightly Chromium builds has managed to port Google's Chromium OS to the iPad.  He posted a picture of the iPad's web page running in...

0 replies - 20662 views - 09/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Mylyn Becomes Top Level Project

After a major reorganization at the beginning of this year, the Eclipse Mylyn ALM (application lifecycle management) project has earned 'top level' status. ...

0 replies - 15230 views - 09/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Drools 5.1 Expands Spring Support, Adds CXF, Camel, and JMX Monitoring

JBoss recently released the next version of their business logic integration platform, which is now split into five sub projects.  The main focus for Drools...

0 replies - 15185 views - 09/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - RabbitMQ 2.0 Upgrades to AMQP 0.9.1

The RabbitMQ messaging system, which was recently be acquired by VMware's SpringSource, has reached version 2.0.  The AMQP-based system has a new persister...

0 replies - 22593 views - 08/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Your Passwords Need to be Longer

Due to the increasing performance unlocked by GPUs, password cracking software will soon be able to discover your 7-10 character password without a problem...

1 replies - 27569 views - 08/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Vim Increases Vigor

Two years have passed since the release of Vim 7.2, and today version 7.3 is here with a few improvements, but nothing major.  Vim has remained a consistently...

0 replies - 21066 views - 08/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose