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Mitch Pronschinske03/18/10
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Giving Legacy Applications New Life

Virtualization has allowed many companies to easily update and maintain many of the legacy applications built on outdated technology.  Since many of the applications are still getting the job done, enterprises will keep their applications around for many...

Mitch Pronschinske03/18/10
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Daily Dose - HTC Prepares to Defend Itself Against Apple

Taiwanese handset maker, HTC, released a statement listing all the "firsts" that they achieved in mobile device manufacturing as a response to Apple's claim that HTC is stealing their ideas (and the pending lawsuit).  "We feel confident in our...

Mitch Pronschinske03/17/10
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Daily Dose - Gosling Has Faith in Oracle, Not the JCP

In his first public address since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, Java creator James Gosling assured developers that Java was in good hands with Oracle.  Gosling, however, did not have nice things to say about the Java Community Process.  "It's just...

Mitch Pronschinske03/17/10
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JEE Record/Replay Debugging Tool; The First to be Hosted

Reproducing a bug is one of the most problematic, "needle in a haystack"-type issues that a software development organization can face.  In order to find that bug again so that it doesn't resurface at a critical time (they always do), you need to...

Mitch Pronschinske03/17/10
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How to Use JPA and JDO in HBase

Thanks to Google App Engine's work with DataNucleus, the GAE users have enjoyed JPA and JDO support.  For its storage system, GAE uses the (NoSQL) Google BigTable implementation.  HBase, under the Apache Hadoop project, is a distributed, column-oriented...

Mitch Pronschinske03/16/10
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Daily Dose - IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees

IBM has recently stopped providing breakouts of the US employee numbers in its annual report.  The company has shown steady hiring outside of the US, especially in India, but the US workforce has been declining.  US policymakers fear that IBMs hiding of...

Mitch Pronschinske03/16/10
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VMware Workstation Adds Cores and Fedora 12

The beta testing has begun for version 7.1 of VMware's Workstation hypervisor for the desktop.  Workstation 7.1 increases the size of virtual machine guests to span more virtual processors.  There is also greater virtual disk capacity and support for Fedora...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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VMware Hires Key NoSQL Developer

The VMware executive blog recently announced the hiring of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the key developer for Redis, a NoSQL database (Key Value/Tuple Store).  VMware believes Redis can help evolve their cloud and virtualization technologies.  Sanfilippo was...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Daily Dose - XML Co-Inventor Joins Android Team; Scorns Apple

Tech blogger and XML co-inventor, Tim Bray, recently posted about his new job with Google's Android development team. In his blog, which is now a "No-Evil Zone", Bray talked about his agreement with the Google philosophy as opposed to the Apple's...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Daily Dose - Apple Doesn't Win Case Against Users of "i"

An Australian trademarks office blocked Apple's actions to stop a small company from trademarking "DOPi" as a name for its laptop bags and cases for Apple devices.  You may notice that DOPi is iPod spelled backwards, so that's why Apple thought the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/13/10
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Daily Dose - ASP.NET MVC 2 Has Arrived

Microsoft just released the second major version of ASP.NET MVC.  An alternative to HTML abstraction development in ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC 2 is used in cases where control over the HTML and precise layer separation are more important than...

Mitch Pronschinske03/12/10
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Daily Dose - Simon Phipps Elected to OSI Board of Directors

Just a few days after leaving Oracle, Simon Phipps, who served as the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun for nearly ten years, has been elected to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors.  Phipps intends to help the organization become more active...

Mitch Pronschinske03/11/10
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Daily Dose - Schwartz: Apple and Microsoft Tried to Sue Me Too!

Johnathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun recently said what he couldn't say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when he was with the company.  "I feel for Google," said Schwartz, "Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too."  Jobs called Schwartz...

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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Cassandra Usurping MySQL on Twitter

One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year.  Some more details have finally surfaced about this quiet transition from a MySQL + Memcached system to Cassandra.  The MyNoSQL blog recently interviewed...

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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Daily Dose - Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun

Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun