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Mitch Pronschinske12/29/09
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Monty Will Fight to the Bitter End

With a headline that claims you can "Help keep the Internet free," MySQL creator Monty Widenius sprung into action once again on his blog to rally the troops against Oracle's expected acquisition of Sun and MySQL. Nearly two weeks after the Oracle...

Mitch Pronschinske12/29/09
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The Force.com Platform Today

Salesforce applications are used by nearly 60,000 businesses. Those business run more than 100,000 Salesforce applications and those applications have over 1.5 million users. DZone recently conducted an exclusive interview with Al Falcione, the Senior...

Nitin Bharti12/28/09
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Simon Free: Merapi Robots and the World of Augmented Reality

In this interview, recorded at CFinNC 2009, Dan Wilson speaks with Adobe Community Expert Simon Free about Merapi, a bridge between applications written in...

Mitch Pronschinske12/28/09
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Hybridfox: Elasticfox for Eucalyptus

Elasticfox allows users to manage their Amazon EC2 accounts through a Firefox add-on. Launching new instances, mounting Elastic Block Storage volumes, and mapping Elastic IP addresses are some of the main utilities provided by Elasticfox. However, the...

Mitch Pronschinske12/23/09
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Flash Player 10.1 Benchmarks and Beta 2 Release

About a month after unleashing its lighter, mobile-targeted Flash Player 10.1 in the first beta release, Adobe delivered the beta 2 release. With a number of bug fixes and enhancements, 10.1 is getting faster by the day. Especially for HD video, the...

Mitch Pronschinske12/23/09
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Turning Ordinary OSGi Services Into Remote OSGi Services

The Distributed OSGi (DOSGi) subproject of the Apache CXF project recently released the 1.1 of its reference implementation for the Distributed OSGi specification. DZone spoke with David Bosschaert and Eoghan Glynn, who are both members of the OSGi...

Mitch Pronschinske12/22/09
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CometD 1.0 Released, Work Begins on 2.0

Any application that receives server-side events such as online games, stock information, sport results, content sharing, etc.

Nitin Bharti12/21/09
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RIA Architectures: An Exclusive Interview with Adobe's Duane Nickull

DZone recently caught up with Duane Nickull, Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems and bass player with the band 22nd Century. In this...

Mitch Pronschinske12/21/09
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AEoid: An OpenID Library for GAE

The Google App Engine team just released the AEoid library for fast and easy user authentication handling with OpenID. AEoid is currently in its "first look" alpha phase with more features on the way. In order for users to get started quickly,...

Shlomi Ben-haim12/21/09
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The 10 Tech Commandments for Employment After Age 40

I'll be 40 in two months, which made me think about the ungrateful high-tech market that employs more than 15M software developers worldwide. At this age, software developers face the tremendous stress of being too young to retire, yet too old to continue in...

Mitch Pronschinske12/21/09
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Impala: An Alternative Module Framework

Modular programming is a growing trend in application development. OSGi is at the center of the modularity movement, however, it is a complex system that requires extra development overhead. Phil Zoio wanted a less complex module framework that didn't...

Mitch Pronschinske12/18/09
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GigaSpaces to add Memcached and JPA in 2010

Application servers have gotten leaner and meaner in 2009. Companies founded just within the last ten years have brought plenty of innovation to the application platform market. GigaSpaces has played a major part in that innovation with their eXtreme...

Mitch Pronschinske12/17/09
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appendTo Brings a jQuery Curriculum to the Enterprise

It's no secret that jQuery is one of the most ubiquitous JavaScript libraries on the web, with a thriving support community. Large companies have been knocking on jQuery's door for a long time asking for support above and beyond what's available in the...

Mitch Pronschinske12/17/09
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WSO2: Open Source SOA in the Cloud

The adoption of SOA requires flexibility. Organizations need an adoption solution that is tailored to their unique architecture. Some companies think they can slap down an ESB in the center of their organization and have a viable SOA. Paul Fremantle,...

Mitch Pronschinske12/16/09
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New SOA Gadgetry from WSO2

WSO2 just announced the immediate availability of two new tools for its comprehensive middleware platform. One is a Gadget Server enterprise portal for building personalized dashboards, and the other is a Business Activity Monitor (BAM), which offers...