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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today.  According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures...

0 replies - 1649 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7.  Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference.  Before today, Sun could...

0 replies - 1992 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mark your calendars!  The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World.  Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. ...

0 replies - 1972 views - 11/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/11

Google has until the end of the week to revise its book deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers.  A judge extended the deadline...

0 replies - 2132 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report.  Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...

1 replies - 2685 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/3

An open source version of the Linux Skype client has been confirmed and is currently under development.  A Skype blog says that the open sourcing of the UI...

0 replies - 2947 views - 11/03/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/31

ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for worldwide domain names and IP addresses, has decided to allow the introduction of non-Latin characters into domain...

0 replies - 3507 views - 10/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last.  The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...

0 replies - 3481 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8: A Few of Your Favorite Things

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens" didn't make the cut, but what are a few of your favorite things about the upcoming NetBeans 6.8?  DZone...

4 replies - 13008 views - 10/26/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/22

According to Amazon, the world's biggest software company has also racked up the largest number of pre-orders of any product, EVER! That's right, Amazon...

0 replies - 2791 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Øredev Developers Conference Coming to Sweden, Nov 2-6

Considered by many to be the best developers conference in Europe, Øredev is running for its fifth consecutive year. This years' theme "Efficiency"...

0 replies - 2037 views - 10/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

Web Tech Skills PHP, Java, in High Demand

A new report released by the job site Elance shows a growth in tech contractor hiring, up 46% from this time last year on Elance.com.  After job losses in IT...

0 replies - 3289 views - 10/15/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been...

12 replies - 7237 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18801 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...

20 replies - 21343 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles