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Google Chrome Dev Channel

If you are using Google Chrome and want to keep up with the latest updates switch to the dev channel: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

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SpringSource will charge for updates to Spring, what comes next?

Under the new policy all bugfixes after three months will be available only in subscribed releases (the patches will still be available in the open source trunk, but you’ll have to compile them yourself).
This is a very expected move from Spring after the VC investment. Their previous business model was largely based on high class [...]

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Live: Alternative and Emerging Languages Panel at JavaZone

Lineup:

Guillaume Laforge for Groovy (I can never spell his name, so I’ll just call him “Big G”)
Bill Venners for Scala
Gilad Bracha for Newspeak
Ola Bini for JRuby
Charles Oliver Nutter for JRuby
Scott Davis against Groovy

Moderator: Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob).
Everyone introduces themselves. Bill is to blame for the “emerging” v/s “dynamic” languages. Ola fools around [...]

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When a machine does not boot and is across the Atlantic

I’m no administrator but I do have to keep an eye on some machines and do some administrative tasks. I was able to bring a machine down by doing a dist-upgrade and accidentally upgrading a kernel without a necessary network module. I learned a lot from this experience :)
I’m in Estonia and the server is [...]

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Google Chrome — Fast, but Unstable

I gave Google Chrome a quick spin. At least two problems came out:

Digest-based authentication isn’t handle correctly, the sent request does not include the query causing 400 Bad Request
Google Analytics will randomly crash the Flash plugin freezing the whole browser (with all the talk of isolated processes…)

On the immediate positive side it fixed my main [...]

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