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Mitch Pronschinske04/27/10
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Daily Dose - A Farewell to Floppy Disks

Sony announced that they will stop selling floppy discs this year, making them the final manufacturer to halt their production. You may not believe it, but even up until 2008, the company could still sell 8.5 million floppy disks just in Japan. Now demand...

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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State of the Web 2010 - CSS3 on the Rise

The State of Web Development 2010 survey recently closed and published its results. In the survey, professional web designers and developers answer over 50 questions about various web technology topics. The last survey was conducted in late 2008, and...

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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MyFaces Aligns With the JSF 2.0 Standard

The Apache MyFaces 2.0 Final was just released with support for Java Server Faces 2.0 (JSR 314). This release comes hot on the heels of RichFaces 3.3.3, which also implements a partial version of JSF 2.0 while offering backward compatibility with JSF 1.2. ...

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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Daily Dose - Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates

Stats from androlib.com show that the Android Marketplace has surpassed 50k Apps, and app production has been accelerating. In December there were around 4,000 new Android apps. Each of the last two months have seen over 8,000 new apps accepted into the...

Mitch Pronschinske04/24/10
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Daily Dose - Palm Software Lead's Last Day

Yesterday was the last day for Michael Abbot, the head of Palm's software and services team. The news comes as no surprise since Palm has been struggling to stay afloat or possibly get bought out now that their stock is declining. Palm did however, keep...

Mitch Pronschinske04/23/10
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Opera Mobile Now Has Desktop Testing

Opera has been on a hot streak lately with their recent release of Opera 10.5, which beat Chrome in performance on certain benchmarks, and the approval of Opera Mini for the iPhone app store, which made it to the top of the download list for many countries. ...

Mitch Pronschinske04/23/10
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Daily Dose - App Engine 1.3.3 Released

A new Google App Engine SDK for Java and Python was released this week. The 1.3.3 version includes changes and issue fixes for the data store, admin console, and deployment. The Python SDK has gained a shiny new experimental feature that lets you use...

Mitch Pronschinske04/22/10
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IntelliJ and TeamCity Load Up on New Features

This week JetBrains unleashed two version updates for its flagship development tools. The releases included IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2, JetBrains' IDE platform, and Team City 5.1, their continuous integration and build server. IntelliJ features Groovy, GWT, and...

Mitch Pronschinske04/22/10
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Daily Dose - Ken Thompson Still Has To Take Google's Language Test

An extremely ironic quote from the co-inventor of Unix and the C language, Ken Thompson, was found in the book Coders at Work. The quote was posted by Gawker today and reveals that even Ken Thompson was required to take a mandatory test on the language he...

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/10
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Adobe Moves On: Abandons CS5 Compiler

More than a week after Apple's change in the iPhone SDK terms and conditions, Adobe has finished its 'review of the SDK language' and decided that it will not continue developing the Flash-to-iPhone compiler that was just released in Flash CS5. Mike...

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/10
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OWASP Top 10 Web Security Vulnerabilities

Web security has been a major topic of concern this year with the alleged Chinese-based attacks on GMail users, and more recently the infiltration of Apache's and JBoss' JIRAs. In 2010, with a growing reemphasis on security, the Open Web Application...

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/10
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Daily Dose - The Future of Car and Smartphone Integration

Automaker Ford has announced that it will make the first vehicle that enables Blackberry and Android phones to use certain web apps through voice commands. The 2011 model of the Ford Fiesta, which will be released this summer, will be the first vehicle to...

Mitch Pronschinske04/20/10
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eZ Components Applies for Apache Incubation

Today, another open source project has submitted a proposal to join the Apache incubator in hopes of one day becoming a Top Level Project. The project is a high-quality library of loosely-coupled PHP components that comes from eZ Systems, a Norwegian...

Mitch Pronschinske04/20/10
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More Drupal 7 Details at DrupalCon

At DrupalCon 2010, project founder Dries Buytaert presented more details about the upcoming release of Drupal 7 to the community. Version 7 of the popular open source Content Management System will be slower than Drupal 6 out of the box, but it will have...

Mitch Pronschinske04/20/10
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Daily Dose - iPhone 4G Leaked

The fourth generation iPhone was found in a Redwood City bar about a week ago and is now in the hands of Gizmodo, who reported on the story. All signs indicate that this is the real deal. All the hardware is next-generation and clearly labeled...