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Daily Dose - Google to Oracle: 'Bring it'

In a statement sent out to the media late last week, Google announced its intentions to defend open source and protect Android (and the Dalvik JVM) against the...

1 replies - 22952 views - 08/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Early Victory for SFC in GPL Violation Cases

This week the Software Freedom Conservancy won a default judgement and against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for not complying with the GPL in their use of...

0 replies - 14507 views - 08/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Is ASP.NET MVC A Gateway to Ruby on Rails?

I have been working primarily with ASP.NET MVC at work but have been doing some small Ruby on Rails stuff in the off hours and the similarities between the two...

0 replies - 5145 views - 08/03/10 by Dane Morgridge in Articles

Focus on One Platform, Contribute to Open Source, and Unit Test

It's easy for a programmer to get excited about the plethora of languages that developers have now to build all sorts of applications, but Andrew Theken says...

0 replies - 2929 views - 07/29/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Videos

Codeplex is upgraded–how to map to the new server

My friend Guardian blogged some minutes ago explaining how you can change the mapping of your codeplex project now that codeplex is migrated to TFS2010. There...

0 replies - 1282 views - 07/27/10 by Ricci Gian Maria in Announcements

Daily Dose - PHP Language Update

The next version of PHP 5 has been released with over 100 bugfixes, some of which are security related.  PHP 5.3.3 may owe some of these bugfixes to the PHP...

0 replies - 12297 views - 07/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

OpenStack: One Giant Leap for Cloud Computing

Today Rackspace launched what might be the most significant step for open source cloud computing thus far.  The new project, dubbed "OpenStack", is...

0 replies - 13432 views - 07/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - Can We Stop Talking About the iPhone Antenna Now?

In this week's edition of 'Media Frenzy Over Basically Nothing,' Apple finally called a press conference to end all the crazy talk about possible recalls and...

0 replies - 19433 views - 07/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Droid X Shuts Down If You Hack It

The Motorola Droid X phone was released this week, but a lot of reports said that hacking the phone would break the hardware as a secuity measure in the eFuse...

1 replies - 13942 views - 07/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - In the Future, Twelve Year Olds Will Write Your Android App

You heard me.  Along with its announcement of the Google App Inventor for Android, Google also mentioned that the free software had been tested on nursing...

0 replies - 12867 views - 07/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java Apps Now Work on Symbian

Symbian's Product Dev Kit 3.0 adds the mobile runtime for Java applications (JRT) from Nokia this week, meaning developers can now write Java applications for...

1 replies - 14089 views - 07/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java ME Devs Get a Testing Price Cut

The mobile manufacturers that make up the Unified Test Initiative have decided to lower the price of testing Java ME software on different mobile phones and...

0 replies - 11691 views - 06/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The 3 Things That Motivate Us

How do I motivate my developers? - is a question you hear all the time from managers who haven't been paying attention to the patterns found in many software...

6 replies - 15503 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - The Winds of Change Blow for the OSI

Simon Phipps acknowledged some of the "stone throwing" aimed at the Open Source Initiative.  Some of the criticism, he said, was not without...

2 replies - 11971 views - 06/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Exemplar - Code Search Engine for Finding Highly Relevant Applications

After our first meeting to discuss ICSE 2010 papers with my presentation on Software Traceability with Topic Modeling, yesterday we had our second...

1 replies - 7304 views - 06/07/10 by Keyvan Nayyeri in News