The first beta for JBoss' Seam 3.0 framework is now available. It requires Weld 1.0.1 Beta 1+ and JBoss logging instead of SLF4J. This release includes an early integration of Seam Managed Transactions, an input field container component, and a bugfix for...
Today the Windows Phone 7 App Market is officially open for public submissions. Over 12k developers have already registered for the new marketplace. That number should increase now that non-early access developers can submit apps. You can download the...
While the core class libraries of Android's Dalvik VM incorporate a subset of Apache Harmony, this code is not the intellectual property that Oracle is suing Google over. Apache posted a blog recently trying to clear up this misconception that Harmony is...
The WebM project has just delivered their first release of libvpx (codename: "Aylesbury"), the SDK for the VP8 open source video codec. The VP8 codec was open sourced at Google I/O this year and combined with Ogg Vorbis (an open audio codec) to...
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has recently migrated from a .NET system over to Linux for their stock trading system. Recent tests have broken the trading speed record on their prior system. The record breaking average trading latency time happened on...
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 development releases. Spring Roo 1.1 and GWT 2.1 now offer more integrated feature sets and better...
Last week we found out that Mozilla was running into roadblocks trying to fix a bunch of bugs in the seventh beta for Firefox 4. These roadblocks have now led to a delay in the final release train for Firefox 4, which was expected after the September...
It was very surprising this week to find that Oracle employees actually responded to some of the bad press surrounding their company as of late - namely, the criticism surrounding Doug Lea's departure and the JCP. Oracle's response to Lea's departure...
I guess this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been keeping up with how much (or how little, really) Canonical contributes to the GNOME open source project. Canonical made it official this week that they are moving Ubuntu away from the GNOME...
Adobe wasn't kidding when they said they were riding the HTML5 bandwagon as hard as anybody right now. Rather than compete with the new web standard, Adobe has created their own HTML5 video player widget which has total CSS customizability and...
The 7.0.4 beta release of Apache Tomcat is available for download this week. The new beta fixes a plethora of bugs and contains enhancements and bugfixes from an unreleased 7.0.3 beta. One feature from 7.0.3 further reduces code duplication in the HTTP...
The OpenStack project for open source, interoperable cloud computing and storage controllers has just released its first public version, codenamed "Austin." Developers were surprised by the amount of active participation that has moved the project...
Today we'll get a glimpse into Microsoft's future in mobile computing as the first Windows Phone 7 handsets are released in UK stores. The models include the HTC 7 Mozart, Trophy, and HD along with Samsung's Omnia 7. Carrier options include Orange,...
JetBrains just announce that they'd be making the Android IDE plugin available in the free edition of IntelliJ IDEA 10 saying, "Yes, you’ve read it correctly.
If you haven't heard already, you should know that in the middle of NetBeans 6.10 development, the name changed to NetBeans 7.0 to align with the upcoming JDK version. The newly released milestone 2 adds qualifier auto-creation and contextual menus for...
