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Daily Dose: Ruby on Rails Will Now Support HTTP Streaming

The new release of the Ruby on Rails web development framework, version 3.1, will feature HTTP support.  This additional support will serve to improve overall...

0 replies - 23993 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Countdown to the End of XP Support

Microsoft XP is officially being retired.  To mark the date when Microsoft will officially withdraw support for XP, developers at the software giant have...

3 replies - 29253 views - 04/21/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: NetBeans 7.0 Has Java 7 Support

Oracle's newly released NetBeans 7.0 features support for Java 7 features.  The JDK 7 component of NetBeans 7.0 is technically an early access snapshot.  A...

2 replies - 29253 views - 04/20/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Hibernate Search 3.4 Upgrades to Lucene 3.1

Hibernate 3.4 has several notable new features, including an upgrade to the new Lucene 3.1.  The focus of this release was improved faceting.  By dividing...

1 replies - 27145 views - 04/19/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Oracle Brings New 'Coherence' to Data Grid Market

Coherence 3.7, Oracle's distributed in-memory data grid product, is available for early adopters today.  Since the last Coherence release, the Oracle...

0 replies - 18610 views - 04/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: OpenStack's Cactus Debuts

'Cactus', the third release of OpenStack's open source cloud operating system brings over 40 new features to OpenStack Compute, Object Storage, and Image...

0 replies - 20779 views - 04/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Flash Builder 4.5 In the Works

When it is released in May 2011, Adobe's Flash Builder 4.5 will create a single framework for web, desktop and mobile development. New features include special...

2 replies - 15093 views - 04/10/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Making Solr/Lucene 4.x Accessable - Lucid Imagination 1.7 Released

It's been less than a week since the long-awaited GA release of Apache Solr 3.1 and Lucene 3.1.  Well, it seems that Lucid Imagination is already looking...

0 replies - 13534 views - 04/07/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Couchbase Unveils New NoSQL Lineup for Mac OS X Developers

Developers using Mac OS X now have more options.  Couchbase is launching a new version of their Membase Server, and an upgraded version of their Couchbase...

3 replies - 12306 views - 04/05/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Apache Releases Version 3.1.0 of Solr and Lucene

The newest release of Solr and Lucene are ready for action!  Project leaders have changed Solr's version number scheme to mirror Lucene's. Both the Solr...

0 replies - 12415 views - 04/01/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: CDISource Promotes CDI Use

Java Enterprise Edition 6 fans rejoice! CDISource is here. CDISource is a new organization created to promote the use of CDI (JSR 299).  Rick Hightower,...

1 replies - 10271 views - 03/29/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Django 1.3 Makes its Big Debut

The new Python-based web framework, Django 1.3 has been released after nearly a year of ongoing development effort.  Django developers focused on updating a...

1 replies - 15413 views - 03/24/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Oracle Wants YOU! (To Help Plan JDK 8)

Oracle's chief architect wants your help planning the next Java toolkit, JDK 8.  Although Oracle's developers have already determined the major features that...

2 replies - 19786 views - 03/22/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Reviewing Data Analysis With Open Source Tools

Before I get to the book review, I wanted to mention a basic note about book reviews. In the past I have reviewed books in a less than traditional manner,...

0 replies - 5186 views - 03/22/11 by Robert Diana in News

Daily Dose: Couchbase Gets Comfortable With New Couchbase Server

The newly-minted Couchbase has released their first major product, the Couchbase Server.  At this time, the Couchbase Server doesn't have Membase's...

0 replies - 34786 views - 03/21/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose