When I discussed VersionControlTools I said that it was an unscientific agglomeration of opinion. As I was doing it I realized that I could add some spurious but mesmerizing numbers to my analysis by doing a survey. Google's spreadsheet makes the mechanics of conducting a survey really simple, so I couldn't resist.References Reference:  ...

Former Novell CTO Becomes W3C CEO

R.I.P. Felipe Gaúcho: DZone MVB & Tireless Java Advocate The DZone team was very sad to read the news that Felipe Gaúcho had passed away this weekend. Felipe has been an active member of JavaLobby for many years, as well as being a key JUG leader.

This week's DZone Refcard is about Getting Started with the Zend Framework. The card introduces you to the basics of the Zend Framework and sets you on the path to creating your first project. I met the author, Jason Gilmore, to find out more about the topic.

Today, the Eclipse Mylyn project is announcing a major restructuring with the creation of several different sub-projects for each key Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) category.  DZone spoke with Mik Kersten, the founder of the Mylyn project and CEO of Tasktop Technologies, about the details, the causes, and the benefits of the project's reconfiguration.  Kersten explains that the single...

JavaFX Eclipse Plugin Goes Open Source   Exadel, the organization that makes a JavaFX plugin for Eclipse, recently launched exadel.org and released a new version of the plugin.  Version 1.2.2 includes a new JavaFX Script Wizard and an outline view with navigation.  Exadel has been promising to make the plugin open source and they have now announced that the source code is available under the...

iPad Coming to the US on April 3rd   

I always believed in Subversion's potential and that it would be a wide improvement over the nightmare that was CVS, but I found out that, as Linus says, There is no way to do CVS right.References Reference:  Why I'm leaving Subversion for Git Mitchell Pronsc...

Facebook Going Public, But Not For a While   The WSJ has been talking with Facebook and gaining some early access to their plans for the future.  Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, confirmed that the company will eventually go public, but not anytime soon.  Mark is worried that going public will make the company less flexible.  Facebook also projects between $1.2 - $2 billion in...

The pattern of today is the Memento one, whose intent is storing the state of an Originator object without breaking its encapsulation, which typically consists in a set of private fields.References Reference:  Practical Php Patterns: Memento Mitchell Pronsc...

Verizon is Getting Nexus One and so is Europe   

Apple Fires First Shots at Android   

When users evaluate a piece of software they often look at the user interface, the capabilities, how efficiently the software runs on their system, and a host of other criteria.  Regardless of what the individual user’s points of interest are, the end goal of the evaluation is to answer a simple question: What’s in it for me?

The pattern of the day is the Mediator one. The intent of this pattern is encapsulating the interactions of a set of objects, preventing aggressive coupling from each of them towards the other ones. A Mediator acts as a central point of convergence between the Colleague objects.References Reference:  Practical Php Patterns: Mediator ...

Chrome Usage Keeps Growing, IE Keeps Dwindling  

Geronimo Gets JPA 2.0   Apache Geronimo 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5-SNAPSHOT, 2.2 and 2.2.1-SNAPSHOT servers are now able to get upgrades from JEE 5's JPA 1.0 to JEE 6's JPA 2.0.  This can be done without upgrading to the full JEE 6 server.  The JPA 2.0 is available through a set of plugins using the Apache OpenJPA 2.0.0 beta.  Installation instructions can be found here.Microsoft Taking Office Apps...

Vote for the New Eclipse Logo!A poll that includes 10 concepts for a new Eclipse logo has just opened and votes will be accepted until March 3rd.  The Eclipse Foundation says that it wants an "update or modernization" for their logo, which is nine years old.  After March 3rd, the top three choices will have a second round of voting to decide the next generation logo for...

US Lobbyists Blacklist Open Source Promoting Counties  

Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing  The dominant PHP company, Zend, just released the final version of Zend Server 5.0  The signature new feature is code tracing, which allows developers to drill down into code and pinpoint the little inefficiencies that make PHP applications slow.  Better caching and job queue capabilities will also help increase application performance.  The Zend...

By now, most web developers have heard of Drupal and its success stories (e.g. the White House's website adopted Drupal for content management).  The question is… should you bother to learn it?  Learning new skills is always helpful to your career prospects and Drupal is gaining more recognition, but an experienced developer with expertise in a specific area like Java or .NET probably doesn't...