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Oracle Issues Draft OpenJDK Bylaws
Oracle has issued a first draft set of the bylaws that it hopes will guide the processes of the OpenJDK. These governance issues were originally supposed to have been solved by the OpenJDK interim governance board, which Sun created in May 2007, but despite an extension the board was unable to complete the work.
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The Latest Technology Trends as Seen by ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks has issued the January 2011 edition (PDF) of their Technology Radar, a document meant to indicate current software technology trends in a concise form.
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RedGate Will No Longer Offer .NET Reflector for Free
RedGate has announced that .NET Reflector is going to become a commercial product starting with version 7 which is to be made available in the first part of March, 2011, having a price tag of $35. Reflector Pro which allows developers to debug through disassembled code is currently offered for $95.
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Jenkins First Release; Hudson Support
The first Jenkins version, 1.396, has been released with upgrade scripts that can help migrate an existing Hudson instance. Meanwhile, Oracle confirms the continuation of commercial Hudson support, and Sonatype puts their weight behind Hudson.
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Will SSL Collapse Under its Own Weight?
Lori MacVittie from F5 Networks provided an analysis of the recent adoption of NIST SSL Deployment Guidelines by the US Government as of January 2011. Since all commercial certificate authorities now issue only 2048-bit keys, the capacity of a server to process SSL is severely impacted and invalidates the general belief that SSL is not computationally expensive.
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Lift-JRuby Integration Bridges the Gap Between Ruby and Scala
The popular Scala web framework Lift is getting a JRuby API. InfoQ talked to Lift creator David Pollak to learn why Rubyists should use Lift and what the challenges in combining Ruby and Scala are.
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Amazon Will Offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS
Amazon will offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS which brings patching, backup, replication, and failover support to Oracle’s database.
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Final IPv4 Blocks Allocated
APNIC have requested two IPv4/8 address blocks, resulting in the final five IPv4/8 address blocks being distributed as per RIPE-436. IANA has no more IPv4 addresses to distribute, and the major RIRs will likely run out of IPv4 addresses before the end of this year. IPv6 is the only way out of this predicament.
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Should the Product Owner Also Be the ScrumMaster?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of having the same person fill both the Product Owner and the ScrumMaster role on the same Scrum project? Is this really a workable option?
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Oracle Nominates SouJava to Replace Apache on the JCP EC
Oracle has announced plans to nominate one of the world's largest Java user groups, SouJava, to the JCP Executive Committee
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WCF Web APIs
Most developers first use WCF as a way to expose SOAP-based Web Services. But despite the name, Web Services are not really well suited for building web sites. XML and JSON-based REST services are simply a better fit for most projects. Microsoft has recognized this and is working on a project to bring WCF up to date with modern standards.
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Hudson Renames to Jenkins
The votes are in, and the community voted to rename Hudson as Jenkins in a 214 to 14 split. The infrastructure is ready but not yet in use, with a migration timeline to be announced in advance to give developers time to migrate to the new organisation. Oracle will continue to support and develop Hudson at the java.net infrastructure, but for how long?
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Verizon Expands Cloud Computing Portfolio with Terremark Acquisition
Verizon Communications Inc. acquires Terremark Worldwide Inc., an operator of data centers, for $1.4bn in a move to boost its cloud strategy. Does this move change the market dynamics in the Cloud IaaS space? Opinions range from highly optimistic to pessimistic and everything in between.
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JasperSoft 4 Released with Big Data Support
JasperSoft announces reporting support for Hadoop and leading NoSQL databases.
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Android 3.0 Has Been Optimized for Tablets
The latest version of Android contains new features such as: new UI “holographic” theme, multi-core support, hardware accelerated 3D, animation framework, enterprise features, and more.