Subversion 1.5.0 Released!
"Subversion 1.5 is the most significant release in the last four years. New features like merge tracking, interactive conflict resolution, and... more »
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Mac OS X root escalation through security flaw
Security breach that allows a regular user to escalate to root privileges using AppleScript. Works through SSH too.
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PHP: Securing Your Input Forms From MySQL Injection Attacks
How to secure your php site from MySQL injection attacks.
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Hottest Java Web Framework... Maybe Not Java?
I haven't sat down in a long time and actually tried to determine a trend in the Java web framework arena. The uncountable number of "easy to use"... more »
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HTML 5: A change in course... straight for the iceberg
The W3C recently released a working draft specification for HTML 5. In its current iteration, this is the worst specification I have ever read.
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The creator of Ruby explains why Ruby sucks
Matz, the creator of Ruby, explains the problems Ruby faces in the "Vision for the future" Conference.
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Dependency Management With Ant And Ivy
This is an excellent article on Ivy. While it doesn't go into great detail of each feature the author gives a great starting working example that is... more »
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Groovy Faster than Ruby? Apparently.
I kind of brushed over Alex's speed improvements in the recent Groovy 1.6-beta1 release, but based on some recent benchmarks it looks like it needs... more »
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Groovy 1.6-beta-1 is released
It is with great pleasure that G2One and the Groovy development team announce the first beta of Groovy 1.6. Beyond the 73 bug fixes and 24... more »
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Grails Gives Me the Giggles
I can't say enough about my experience with Grails thus far. Grails makes me want to go out and find good..scratch that...CHEAP Java hosting.
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Why I think Ruby on Rails is an ideal web development environment
I've been a PHP developer since 1999, am currently a Zend Certified Engineer for PHP4 and PHP5 and work as a contractor for a large media company... more »
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Why Mac OSX and Linux will likely never be the world's primary desktop
"Think Different" translates to "It's Different", and that will prevent mass adoption. Secondarily, the paradox of choice in FOSS is an inhibiting... more »
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Groovy’s Performance is Not Subjective
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Ah, the saga of misinterpreted micro-benchmarks! Developers advocating one technology over another have long used micro-benchmarks and trivial... more »
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Object-oriented database programming with db4o - Part 2
This article explores the client-server and transaction features of db4o
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Ruby: real-world performance metrics
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As people spend more time with Ruby 1.9, JRuby, and Rubinius, we are seeing a lot more benchmarks. It has been a while since we published any metrics,... more »
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Eclipse 3.3 or NetBeans 6.0?
Andrew Binstock compares popular favorite Eclipse 3.3 and recent Jolt award winner NetBeans 6. Find out how these free, open source development... more »
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Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NET
At EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, Calif on Monday, the project leaders announced the Eclipse Runtime project (Eclipse RT) an initiative to build an... more »
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How Zend_Framework Is Losing The Wrong War
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past year, you have surely heard of the war between Rails and PHP. There are no casualties, no land... more »
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Apple’s iPhone SDK Prohibits Real Mobile Innovation
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Last week Apple opened up the iPhone and introduced a software developer’s kit (SDK) to allow third parties to develop software for the iPhone. This... more »
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Mono 2.0 (.Net 2.0 compatible) is coming soon
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According to Redmond Developer News, the beta of Mono 2.0 will be available for download Friday March 14. Mono is an open source implementation of... more »
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Careless Design From Google and Apple?
Today two of my favorite companies decided to tell me how little they care about me and other customers. In my opinion, not bothering users with... more »
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Interface "Wow" Factor
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I’ve been using Firefox 3.0 since b1 on my main development machine under Windows Vista and to be honest, I’ve been floored by all of the improvements... more »
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Sun Bringing Java to iPhone
Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java applications... more »
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Sun: We'll put Java on the iPhone
Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java applications... more »
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jQuery - It's Here to Stay
So just how popular has jQuery become in such a short time? The answer is VERY. Check out these graphs from Alexa and Google Trends.
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