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Mitch Pronschinske10/01/10
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Daily Dose - Researchers Slam Android Over Apps that Leak GPS data

A study from researchers at Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs has discovered that 15 out of 30 popular Android applications selected at random were sending GPS data and phone numbers to advertisers and remote servers. Several months...

Mitch Pronschinske09/30/10
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Daily Dose - Metawidget 1.0 Lands

The unique Java UI tool, Metawidget, has finally reached a high level of maturity since its inception over two years ago. The open source project is described as a "smart User Interface widget" that makes the necessary changes at runtime to match...

Mitch Pronschinske09/29/10
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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 a Chrome browser on the iPad. However, he's planning to post on the "few catches"...

Mitch Pronschinske09/28/10
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Daily Dose - ZFS Creator Leaves Oracle

Jeff Bonwick, the software engineer who led the team that created ZFS, is leaving his position as an Oracle VP. In his blog, Bonwick gave no sign of rancor toward his employers. Having worked at Sun/Oracle for 20 years, Bonwick gave a heartfelt farewell...

Mitch Pronschinske09/27/10
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Daily Dose - Helios First Service Release

This week's Eclipse 3.6.1 release does not contain any new functionality but provides a healthy amount of bugfixes for the first service release of the "Helios" edition. Helios consists of about 40 Eclipse projects, including IDEs for Java, PHP,...

Mitch Pronschinske09/26/10
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Daily Dose - Lift Raised to the Next Level

The Scala-based web framework, Lift, has reached version 2.1 with a few new features to add to the large list from 2.0. The support is now tighter for the most recent version of Scala, 2.8. There's also improved support for NoSQL data stores MongoDB and...

Mitch Pronschinske09/24/10
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Daily Dose - Oracle Covets Thy Chipmakers

In an investors meeting this week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told the board, "You’re going to see us buying chip companies." There's speculation that AMD or ARM could be targeted by Ellison's company in the next few months. This has lead to a...

Mitch Pronschinske09/23/10
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Daily Dose - A Few More Thoughts From James Gosling

Darryl Taft wasn't the only one who got an interview with the Father of Java this week. The authors of the Basement Coders blog also got Gosling to do a podcast with them. Although the sound quality is pretty low, you can find some great quotes from the...

Mitch Pronschinske09/22/10
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Daily Dose - Apache Celebrates its Millionth Code Commit

lucene/ r1000000 yonik SOLR-2128: full param substitution for function queriesThis was the 1,000,000th commit at the Apache Foundation this week contributed by Yonik Seeley, the creator of Apache Solr. The commit was to Solr's parent project, Lucene. ...

Mitch Pronschinske09/21/10
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Daily Dose - RC1 of MySQL 5.5 Adds InnoDB Default

The nearly finished 5.5 version of MySQL is at the release candidate stage this week. The 5.5 version now uses InnoDB by default instead of the old MyISAM engine. Oracle says this will make it much faster.Continuing the SwingX Release Tradition

Mitch Pronschinske09/20/10
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Daily Dose - SproutCore 1.4 Grows Touch Support

A new release arrived for the SproutCore framework that builds nativeized web apps. The new release, 1.4, has more touch events for mobile devices and better animation support. The build tools such as Abbot have gotten a speed boost in this release. ...

Mitch Pronschinske09/19/10
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Daily Dose - PostgreSQL 9 Released Ahead of Announcement

Before the official announcement went out, the final version of PostgreSQL was released this weekend. If you browsed the PostgreSQL FTP server you could find the final packages for this major update. MySQL and Oracle better watch their back because...

Mitch Pronschinske09/16/10
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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. Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, says that Mylyn has become the de...

Mitch Pronschinske09/16/10
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Daily Dose - Go to the 'Go Playground'

Google's golang.org website for exploring their new programming language now includes a new feature called the Go Playground. The Playground allows anyone to write code in Go that can be immediately compiled, linked, and deployed on Google's servers. The...

Mitch Pronschinske09/15/10
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Daily Dose - Mozilla Makes a Monster Benchmark

After its longstanding gripes with the over-valued SunSpider benchmark, Mozilla has finally made the first public version of their own benchmark. They call it… Kraken! According to Mozilla's Robert Sayre, Kraken measures realistic workloads and...