Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008
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The Android project has been released as open source, beating the
rumored launch date for the source code by several months
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And, Gizmodo and ZDNet both offer in-depth reviews of the T-Mobile G1
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Java 6 Update 10 final has been released by Sun
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Adobe has release Flash 10 for all supported platforms, including a simultaneous release for Linux
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Fabrizio Guidici is asking what scripting language people would like to see in BlueMarine
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Mobile application of the week: Last.FM client
Quick News
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Registration is now open for the next Mobile and Embedded Developer Days
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Thoughtworks has announced a new product, Twist, that aims to ease functional testing of web and Java applications
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Mark Reinhold has written a "wouldn't it be cool" blog that mentions some "wishes"
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The JCP Executive Committee Elections on the PriceWaterhouse Cooper JCP elections site
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John O'Connor blogs that Jersey, the JAX-RS reference implementation, has reached 1.0
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A new Microsoft excel to Java bridge, Obba
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Barton George has left Sun after 13 years
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Mozilla has released Firefox 3.1 beta
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In a couple of recent tips of the day, Arun Gupta has covered how to
port a JSF (JavaServer Faces) 1.2 application up to 2.0
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The JSR 277 (Java Module System) spec lead, Stanley Ho, is stepping
down as spec lead and leaving Sun for RIM (Research in Motion)
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At a recent Google Developer Day in Bangalore, Prasad Ram, director of
Google R&D for Bangalore, stated that the Google AppEngine will
support Java
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NetBeans has just turned 10 years old
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Vuze, formally known as Azureus, reaches version 4.0.0
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The NetBeans wiki has a very simple introduction to creating your first JavaFX Applet
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A new application toolkit, pivot, has been released
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Jazoon has announced a call for papers for the 2009 conference
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Sun Microsystems has announced a loss for the quarter
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Comcast in cooperation with Panasonic is now offering tru2way support in Chicago and Denver
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Oracle has released Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF 11g
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Ed Burns needs YOU for JSF 2.0
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Mono 2.0 has been released
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Eclipse4SL brings silverlight tooling to Eclipse
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BlueJ has reached version 2.5
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Christopher Brock has released version 2.0 Beta of MVEL - the MV Flex Expression Language
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Rudie Ekkelenkamp has announced GRAG 1.0, the Grails Application Generator
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WebSynergy has added support for JSR 286 portlets to be written in Groovy in its portal pack 3.0
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Foxtrot promises simple synchronous Swing programming without the GUI freeze problems
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Reza Rahman has just wrapped up a five part series about EJB 3.1 new features
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RIM (Research in Motion) has announced the next version of its developer tools for the BlackBerry Storm
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Sun has released new binaries for JSR 203 - Java NIO version 2
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