Skywriter: The Project Formerly Known as Bespin
Although the Star Wars fans may not be happy about its name change, the Bespin project is approaching a 1.0 release and gaining adoption... more »
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Daily Dose - Android Doesn't Count Upgrades as Activations Either
Google made it clear that Steve Jobs couldn't have been referring to Android when he said that some mobile companies include upgrades in... more »
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WebORB for Java v.4.0 is Here!
The wait is finally over! You can now download WebORB for Java 4.0. Just as we did with WebORB for .NET 4.0, we’ve added many new... more »
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Daily Dose - Release Candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0
PostgreSQL 9 unleashes its first release candidate. RichFaces 4 has its second milestone release.
New AIR Launchpad Gets Apps Off the Grown Faster
As developers learn to build desktop applications with Adobe AIR and Flex, they tend to face a similar set of challenges - creating... more »
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Android Fork Serves Froyo to Older Phones
The CyanogenMod project provides a modified version of the Android firmware. This week the community-built fork released version 6.0,... more »
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Palm Delivers Dev Preview of WebOS 2.0
The first beta of Palm's next major mobile OS permutation, WebOS 2.0, is available to developers today through the early access program.... more »
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Pulse: Eclipse Helios 3.6 Managed and Delivered
Pulse Community Edition, which is free, now supports Eclipse Helios 3.6, so developers can manage their tools from inside a unified... more »
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Kindle hits the highstreet and Google launches a bookstore
The world of ebooks is always in turmoil but at the moment things seem to be developing fast. Kindle will soon be available on the high... more »
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Raphaël 1.5 Release and New Demos
Dmitry Baranovskiy has announced the new version of his SVG animation and drawing library, Raphaël. Raphaël 1.5 features custom... more »
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Weld Chugging Along
The first beta for the next version of JBoss' Weld is here. It has been approximately six months since JBoss released Weld 1.0.1, which... more »
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A ZFS Kernel Module for Linux
An Indian company called Knowledge Quest Infotech is building a native ZFS port to Linux. The company says it has an interesting... more »
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How much cash is there in a free mobile app?
Can you fund app development by giving it away and just taking advertising revenue. The early indications are that you can but it is... more »
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Google Offering Programming Courses for Free Including Android Developement Course
I was just messing around on googles code site trying to find some open source code for a few apps so I could see how they were done... more »
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Daily Dose - The Emotion Markup Language
The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers. Ruby developers are emotional over the release of Rails 3.0.
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IntelliJ IDEA - Give it a try
If you don't know IntelliJ IDEA yet, I can tell you it's worth a try especially with the new release coming up. You can give it a try in... more »
Microsoft Visual Studio developers can now develop Flex 4 applications with Amethys Professional
Yesterday SapphirSteel Software has released the final version of Amethyst, the Flex development plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio.
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Flash CMS Flip Book: a Fresh Way of Presenting Your Publications Online
FlashMoto presents a digital flip book with a WYSIWYG Editor integrated, that provides the ability to manage the content without touching... more »
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Edgier 'Set Java Free' T-Shirt
A little edgier design from the Anti-Oracle crowd. A reference to the 1984 themed Apple commercial
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They did it! Rails 3.0 released
After nearly 2 years, thousands of commits, and with the help of 1600 developers it is done. Today Rails 3.0 has been released.
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VLC 1.1.4 is released! PPA Ubuntu
VLC 1.1.4 is released, this is the fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. This release comes especially to fix important security... more »
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How fast is the Windows Phone 7 Start up???
A video by pocketpc from youtube that is embedded in the blog post with a Windows Phone 7 prototype Device ( LG ) compares the boot up... more »
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Hudson's in the Cloud
Fresh out of stealth-mode, the developers of CloudBees have announced their Java cloud platform to the world. The best part about this... more »
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Consequences of Oracle v. Google
We're a long way from any kind of resolution in the Oracle v Google suit, so it's really anyone's guess how the case will unfold. ... more »
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Gosling: Let Larry know you care
I whipped up a couple of t-shirt designs on the topic of Oracle's commitment to releasing Java. If you're attending JavaOne or OpenWorld,... more »