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Mitch Pronschinske12/15/09
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Launching Memcached into the Cloud

The ubiquitous Memcached memory caching system recently made another big step into the world of cloud computing. Gear6, a clustering and caching startup that's been in business for four years, recently unveiled a web caching server that runs Memcached in...

Mitch Pronschinske12/15/09
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Amazon EC2 Opens Risky Spot Instance Auction

It's the holiday season and with the rush of online customers Amazon.com must maintain a large server footprint. Increasing capacity is no problem for Amazon's EC2, but what happens to all that capacity for the other eleven months of the year? Amazon...

Mitch Pronschinske12/15/09
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An Introduction to Spring ActionScript

Finding an Inversion of Control (IoC) container for Adobe Flex and Flash projects that fits all of your needs can be difficult. Cairngorm and PureMVC both impose a certain structure to your Flex applications, and these structures can negate some powerful...

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/15

Sun Microsystems' stock value shot up today after months of decline. The reason behind the 10% jump was a statement of commitments recently posted by Oracle. In a nutshell, the statement says that Oracle will maintain MySQL and keep its APIs public upon...

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/09
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SmartSVN 6.5: Differentiating Features

The Subversion (SVN) version control system, which will soon be under the Apache banner, has plenty of graphical clients available. SVN clients are small, but important components in the software development cycle, and choosing the right one can be an...

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/14

Leaders on both sides of the Oracle-Sun deal have been recruiting people to send email petitions to the EU. Just before the hearings this weekend, Oracle persuaded its customers, including Vodafone, the Spanish Bank BBVA, and the National Health Service, to...

Mitch Pronschinske12/12/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/12

Yesterday, EC chair Neelie Kroes was optimistic that Oracle and the EU could come to an agreement. Today, Oracle attacked the EU, saying that they have only focused on a few arguments against the Sun merger, ignoring the majority of customers, such as GE,...

Mitch Pronschinske12/11/09
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Simplified Enterprise OSGi in WAS 7

Enterprises have just begun to dip their toes into the OSGi pool. Modularity is not easy to implement, but IBM is trying to make it easier for enterprise Java developers. The company recently unveiled its Open Alpha for OSGi applications on the WebSphere...

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/11

At Washington University, they have a class that teaches students how to write iPhone apps. Each student got an iPod touch at the beginning of the semester and designed apps in teams. The apps created by students could track items in a fridge, teach you...

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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Java EE 6 and NetBeans 6.8 Arrive Today

This morning Sun announced the release of the Java EE 6 SDK and the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, which is the first application server to support Java EE 6. Also announced was the general availability of NetBeans 6.8. The dual release makes sense for...

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/10

The Eclipse Marketplace has officially replaced Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC). The new site went live less than 24 hours ago and features custom lists where users can keep track of their favorite plugins.

Mitch Pronschinske12/09/09
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GWT 2.0 Adds a Bunch of New Tools

Version 2.0 of the Google Web Toolkit is now available. The new version of Google's Java centric toolkit for browser-based applications features a Development Mode, UiBinder, Layout Panels and more JavaScript code size optimizations. The most notable new...

Mitch Pronschinske12/09/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/9

The Mac and Linux versions of the Chrome browser were finally released yesterday after the Chrome team said it had fixed the last bugs on Friday.

Mitch Pronschinske12/08/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/8

Good news for website owners and publishers! More features were added recently to the free Google Analytics software. Users can now put annotations on data points to elaborate on spikes or drops in traffic. Custom variables can now be seen across all...

Mitch Pronschinske12/07/09
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New Standard for JavaScript After Years of Disagreement

After ten years with no major revision, the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) general assembly recently approved the ECMA-262 5th edition (ES5) spec as the ECMAScript standard. JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript are the well-known...