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Mitch Pronschinske12/01/09
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Resin Release brings REST administration

Today, Caucho released the newest version of its open source application server, Resin. Version 4.0.2 has bigger changes than the small number change implies. The release includes Servlet 3.0 Early Access improvements such as file upload and...

Mitch Pronschinske11/30/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/1

Still trying to figure out a productive use for Google Wave? Go see what the Seattle Times did. The newspaper set up a public Wave to gather information from the community about a suspected cop-killer's wereabouts. The Wave already has over 100 people...

Mitch Pronschinske11/30/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/30

Two anonymous sources "with knowledge of the matter" told Reuters that Oracle asked for a hearing with the European Commission, which will take place December 10th. This could mean that Oracle finally plans to address the EU's concerns about MySQL...

Mitch Pronschinske11/28/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/28

A new version of Apache Lucene, an open source search engine, was just released. Version 3 of the Apache Lucene project is being called a "clean up release" by the project management committee chair, Grant Ingersoll. The release removes all...

Mitch Pronschinske11/27/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/27

A new report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau shows that online ad revenues for the third quarter of this year have dropped 5.4% from the end of last year. However, online ad revenues are up 1.7% from this year's second quarter. Online ad sales were...

Mitch Pronschinske11/25/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/26

Are you one of the few lucky searchers who saw the new Google search interface today? Early reports say that Google just started testing its revamped search interface with random users. You can find a method for getting this new interface here, but it may...

Mitch Pronschinske11/24/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/25

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently held early talks with Microsoft to show Wall Street Journal content, and possibly other News Corp. publications, exclusively on the Bing search engine. Analysts say this plan would hurt Murdoch more than Google. The...

Mitch Pronschinske11/24/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/24

CA, the agile solutions company, introduced a new suggestion box forum called the Agile Planner Community. The community will give developers a chance to mold the future of CA's upcoming Agile Planner tool. Go there now and tell CA the best ways to...

Mitch Pronschinske11/23/09
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Visual WebGui: Cloud Optimization and the Application Layer

Various cloud infrastructures lack a cross-cloud application platform.

Mitch Pronschinske11/23/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/23

SAP and Microsoft are supposedly ganging up on Oracle with a new marketing agreement. Microsoft agreed to recommend SAP's BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application to its customers as its preferred solution. SAP seems to be at odds with...

Mitch Pronschinske11/20/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/21

The Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest computing system according to the TOP500 rankings. The Jaguar grabbed the number one spot from IBM after upgrading roughly 250,000 processors from...

Mitch Pronschinske11/20/09
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In the "Data Path": Dumping the Database

Bottlenecks to application scalability are a thorn in many architects' sides. Offloading the database and dumping the impedance mismatch with object caching is one answer, but that may require major changes to a company's data management environment. In...

Mitch Pronschinske11/20/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

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. ...

Mitch Pronschinske11/18/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

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...

Mitch Pronschinske11/18/09
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Azure to Feature App Marketplace

Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form. The announcement was made at this week's PDC conference where Microsoft is promoting their Azure cloud services. Microsoft says that the Azure...