Welcome to BlazeDS! BlazeDS is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences.
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GNU Source Installer 2.5 released
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"...It provides configuration, compilation, installation, upgrade, tracking and removal of packages built from source code following the GNU coding standards. The functionality is reachable using a command line, scriptable front end or a GTK graphical interface..." --
* http://www.gnu.org/software/sourceinstall/
* http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/sourceinstall/
The Techcrunch Open Source Web Tablet Project
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Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device. This all stems back from a conversation a few weeks ago when we were discussing the ultimate web browsing/cloud computing client hardware. The iPhone is nice but too small, and most laptops are over-powered for the task.
Read more »Designing rich AJAX Web interfaces with ZK
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ZK is an AJAX toolkit designed to make creating user interfaces that run in a Web browser as simple as creating event-driven interfaces for desktop applications. The interfaces created with ZK use an XML markup language to define the user interface and Java code to implement the Web application's functionality.
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Test Drive Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta 2 in Ubuntu
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Adobe has released Flash Player 10 Beta 2 (10.0.0.525) for Linux. On top of features from Beta 1, this Flash 10 release adds windowless mode (transparency and page elements on top of a Flash applet), better Linux webcam support, new languages, and speed/stability improvements.
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Ubuntu to get open-source Java heart implant
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Canonical has been in talks with Sun Microsystems and SpringSource to support one of their open source Java application server stacks in the Ubuntu core, to increase Ubuntu's enterprise adoption.
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Fan-Created Linux Hardware
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I very much feel that part of the key to Linux gaining mainstream adoption is to have various interesting, innovative pieces of hardware that ship with Linux.
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5 Reasons Why You Should Use VirtualBox Over VMware Server
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Ever since I started using Ubuntu two years back, I have been an avid user of VMware server. It fascinated me to a great extent that I could actually run an OS inside an OS. Recently, I tried out VirtualBox, another virtualization software like VMware server, and I was greatly impressed by it.
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Experiencing Stumpwm
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"Recently I switched from GNOME to Stumpwm (wiki), which means that I jumped out of a desktop environment to a simple window manager. So far, I'm very satisfied with such a change and never looked back. Stumpwm, as its website says, 'is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp'. This definition summarizes the reasons why Stumpwm is so suitable for me..." --
Read more »Portage now supports building multiple packages in parallel
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"In >=portage-2.2_rc2 there are a few new emerge options that many Gentoo users will probably be interested in: ..."
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Network Security Toolkit distribution aids network security administrators
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Network Security Toolkit is one of many live CD Linux distributions focusing on network monitoring, analysis, and security. NST was designed to give network security administrators easy access to a comprehensive set of open source network applications, many of which are among the top 100 security tools recommended by insecure.org.
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Network Monitoring with Zenoss: A Reluctant Administrator's Guide
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My wife and I have been using (and collecting) computers for years, and we've shared this interest very effectively with our children. Now I am the victim of my own success: my household now has four physical computers, one of them dual boot. All are on a single internal Local Area Network (LAN) with five real users plus sundry administrative ones on each.
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Apache’s open source governance model
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In our industry the market dominant players often have the worst products, but that’s pretty clearly not true for the Apache Foundation. The core Apache servers power the web: combining dominant market share with dominant performance and stunning software reliability - and because that combination is unusual, we have to ask why and how?
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Using Adobe Flash and other 32-bit applications on 64-bit Linux
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64-bit computing is as prevalent today as multicore computing. Almost any new processor from Intel or AMD has the AMD long mode extensions, allowing the processor to use 64-bit registers. While 32-bit processors can address 4 gigabytes of RAM, a 64-bit processor can address 16 exabytes, or almost 17.2 billion gigabytes, of RAM.
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Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs
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"This manual is for Rinari. A Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs..."
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