Security analysts from F-Secure.com are concerned about the JailbreakMe.com exploit that allows the site to jailbreak iPhones and iPads.  In an easily understandable Q&A they answered questions about this vulnerability and the risks it poses to every iPhone user, not just jailbroken phones.  Any malicious PDF file could potentially exploit this vulnerability.  F-Secure analysts say they...

This week, Research In Motion released the sixth BlackBerry platform, which is aimed at bringing the company's handsets into alignment with iPhone and Android technologies.  Along with this release, developers finally have a chance to get their hands on the BlackBerry 6 Java SDK and work on building apps for the company's new OS.  One of the major improvements to the OS is the inclusion of a...

The world of css knows many grey zones. Areas where a healthy css developer would rather not tread if they had anything to say about it, but can be conquered with a serious dose of willpower. There is worse though. The black holes of css make us cringe only by thinking of them. That exact same cringe you might notice when a designer starts talking about pixel differences in forms. Oh, the...

The third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" is upon us.  Based on the 2.6.35 Linux kernel, Ubuntu 10.10 a3 has updated to GNOME 2.31 and the Qt 4.7 beta.  The software center has gotten a 'featured' and 'what's new' carousel in the frontpage.  Xfce4 was updated to the current 4.6.2 release, and the unity interface is now the default in Ubuntu's Netbook Edition.Google...

Microsoft is preparing for their first beta release of Internet Explorer 9 in September now that they've released the fourth and final developer preview version today.  This release integrates Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine to run natively inside the browser.  It also finishes the hardware acceleration features and boosts the Acid3 scores. 

Microsoft is preparing for their first beta release of Internet Explorer 9 in September now that they've released the fourth and final developer preview version today.  This release integrates Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine to run natively inside the browser.  It also finishes the hardware acceleration features and boosts the Acid3 scores. 

Lift, a web framework written in Scala, provides easy integration with Comet, a server side HTML push model. References Reference:  Using Comet with Lift to Dynamically Update Pages Mitchell Pronsc...

Lift, a web framework written in Scala, provides easy integration with Comet, a server side HTML push model. References Reference:  Using Comet with Lift to Dynamically Update Pages Mitchell Pronsc...

The Visitor pattern is a mechanism to allow external objects to access an object structure without resulting in a mutual dependency. Typically this pattern is used when dealing with a stable data structure, but a set of repidly changing operations. The pattern sets up a class structure where it is easier to change the operations by adding new Visitors.Every Visitor implementation has methods for...

The Visitor pattern is a mechanism to allow external objects to access an object structure without resulting in a mutual dependency. Typically this pattern is used when dealing with a stable data structure, but a set of repidly changing operations. The pattern sets up a class structure where it is easier to change the operations by adding new Visitors.Every Visitor implementation has methods for...

This week the Software Freedom Conservancy won a default judgement and against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for not complying with the GPL in their use of BusyBox software within their products.  Near the end of 2009, the SFC began their legal action against Best Buy, Samsung (America), JVC, Western Digital, Zyxel, and Westinghouse for the BusyBox violations.  Westinghouse must now pay $90k...

I've read a comment on a solution of mine published on the Adobe Cookbook (as part of O'Reilly's Flex 4 Cookbook): Adding a drop shadow to a custom chrome window I've updated the example and tested it against Flash Builder 4 and AIR 2.0 SDK.ProblemYou want to add a drop shadow to the border of a window that has custom chrome applied.SolutionReferences Reference:  ...

Apart from the most common tags like <a> and <img>, there is a whole set of underused tags in the HTML specification with a rich semantic and potential power for markup. In the years before the advent of CSS, developers were justified in always using the same tags in order to control their presentation, which varied with the markup instead of custom rules. Just think of <b> and...

Several months after the acquisition of GemStone, Spring has officially released a project integrating the company's technology.  The first milestone of GemFire 1.0 now includes the Spring development approach in its distributed data management platform.  The new features include:

Today WSO2, an open source SOA and cloud services company, launched new versions of several SOA components, including the Business Process Server, Data Services Server, Business Activity Monitor, Gadget Ser;ver, and Mashup Server.  The components all run on the WSO2 Carbon 3.0 platform, which is a fully modular middleware platform.  Today's releases all have the functionality of the Carbon 3.0...

Some of the challenges in building an SOA come when a company acquires other organizations that may have a different technology, or SOA written in a different language from a different vendor.  Another challenge is extending the architecture outside of their enterprise boundary, because security is needed even more than before.   Embed Tag:  ...

Dear Reader,I am putting the finishing touches on my reference application to demonstrate my wrapper for Google’s QR Code API. While doing so I decided to see what it would take to have the image pop up in a new window. Originally I had it displaying on the right side of the main window but aesthetically, that just didn’t do it for me.References Reference:  ...

The Application Controller pattern is a subpattern used in Web implementations of the Model-View-Controller one. It prescribes to interpose an object between the HTTP-related controllers (like the Action Controllers and the Front Controller) and the rest of the MVC machine of an application, or to substitute them.

The lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine, Gaelyk, has reached 0.4.3.  This release includes a new standard hierarchy approach in the logging infrastructure for Groovlets and Templates.  Simple Entity and POJO/POGO mapping through type coercion is now available along with the OAuth service in the binding.  The template project is now updated for Groovy 1.7.4.IE Recovering in Browser...

ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpNotFoundResult action result ASP.NET MVC 3 introduces some new action results like HttpNotFoundResult that you can use to let browser know that resource was not found. In this posting I will show you how to use HttpNotFoundResult in real-world applications.References Reference:  ASP.NET MVC 3: Using...