Archive for June, 2009

NetBeans IDE enhanced for teams, scripting

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

etBeans, the open source IDE championed by Sun Microsystems, is being fitted with additional capabilities this week for development teams and scripting languages.

Mozilla sets Firefox 3.5 final release for Tuesday

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Mozilla plans to ship Firefox 3.5 on Tuesday, bringing the long-awaited upgrade in under its own deadline wire, the company said.

Firefox 3.5 eyed for Tuesday release

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Mozilla is expected to release its Firefox 3.5 browser on Tuesday morning, a company representative said on Friday afternoon.

Ingres benefits from Oracle-related angst

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

When the 250-store California supermarket chain Save Mart Supermarket began making plans to roll out a time and attendance tracking application to manage its 20,000 workers, Oracle was not on its list of preferred databases, even though the company has some older versions running in-house.

Zend tool beta backs PHP language upgrade

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Zend Technologies, makers of tools for PHP application development, is offering a beta version of its Zend Studio 7.0 development environment, featuring support for PHP 5.3, the company said this week.

Open source webERP takes on the big guns

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

ERP software may be largely the realm of large enterprises, but little known open source application, webERP, is becoming more popular and fits into businesses of all sizes.

Ask Jazz Technical Lead Dr. Erich Gamma

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

As IBM continues to build out, Jazz, their community-oriented development site, technical lead Dr. Erich Gamma has offered to answer questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Among his many accomplishments, Erich worked for Kent Beck on the Java unit testing framework, JUnit, and was actively ...

China Delays "Green Dam" Internet Filter

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

SailorSpork sends in a BBC report that "China is delaying a controversial plan requiring all new computers sold in the country to be equipped with an Internet filtering software, state media says. The filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was to have been required from Wednesday, but the ministry of ...

Most Complete Topographical Map of Earth Complete

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

An anonymous reader writes "Kudos to NASA and the Japanese trade ministry for mapping 99% of the Earth's surface, surpassing their previous effort, with which the new data will be amalgamated. Apparently, the data will be free to download and use."

Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows?

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Michael writes "Part of our business at my work involves transferring mission critical files across a 2 mbit microwave connection, into a government-run telecommunications center with a very dodgy internal network and then finally to our own server inside the center. The computers at both ends run Windows. What sort ...