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I'm Going to Make a Lot of People Mad: Criticizing the Uncriticizable

There are some technologies that have such strong "street cred", they are effectively untouchable. Anyone who dares imply that they are deficient in any way is...

31 replies - 29030 views - 12/03/12 by Shannon Behrens in Articles

Daily Dose: Amazon Reveals New In-Memory Caching System "ElastiCache"

Amazon's new ElastiCache web service provides a fast, managed, in-memory caching system that is "protocol compliant with MemCached". The new service...

0 replies - 18683 views - 08/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

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 - 23987 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Seam 3 Goes Beta

JBoss' grand, all-encompassing Java development framework is nearly finished. This weekend, the 3.0 version reached Beta 1 status. It is the first release...

0 replies - 31455 views - 01/31/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Someone Finally Buys Novell

Novell has finally found a buyer for every sector of its business this week. While many speculated that VMware was going to take the SUSE Linux division of...

0 replies - 22139 views - 11/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Emotion Markup Language

The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers. This would include more complex emoticons for human-to-human interaction as...

0 replies - 20369 views - 08/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Adobe's McAllister Speaks Out Against Oracle

In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or...

0 replies - 22165 views - 08/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Rails 3 Arrives at First RC Station

Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers. That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first...

0 replies - 15472 views - 07/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - HP Trumps IBM in Server Revenue

For years, IBM has been at the top of the server game, but a new study by Gartner says that HP is the new leader in server revenues. In Q1 of 2010 HP...

0 replies - 13458 views - 05/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose