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Genuitec is proud to announce the immediate availability of two milestone releases: MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 6.5 M1 and MyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition M1. These releases, available in the “development releases” area of the download page, add features and functionality, as well as a peek at what to expect from the general availability release in the coming weeks.

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Users will notice multiple such enhancements, such as the upgrade of MyEclipse Spring tools, which provides the most up-to-date technology as well as the integration of the latest Spring framework 2.5 libraries. JSF developers can expect to see a dramatic improvement to the JSF/Facelet visual page designer with all new support for coding and WYSIWYG preview of custom components. Finally, by customer demand, MyEclipse 6.5 includes Java portlet support. The new portlet creation tools seamlessly integrate with the MyEclipse visual web design tools and application server connectors to provide a rapid portlet development experience.

“We recognize that our customers expect the very highest service from the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench product line,” said Wayne Parrott, vice president of development for Genuitec in a statement to the press. “With the MyEclipse 6.5 release, we continue our tradition of providing the Java enterprise developer community with the most recent application technologies and productivity tools available.”

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The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1.1!

Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/

JRuby 1.1.1 is the first point release of JRuby 1.1.  The fixes in this
release are primarily obvious compatibility problems and performance
enhancements.  Our goal is to put out point releases more frequently for
the next several months (about 3-4 weeks a release).  We want a more
rapid release cycle to better address issues brought up by users of JRuby.

Read more here

The AppFuse Team is pleased to announce the release of AppFuse 2.0.2. This release includes upgrades to Spring Security 2.0, jMock 2.4, the ability to customize code generation templates and many bug fixes.

For information on upgrading from 2.0.1, see the Release Notes or changelog. AppFuse 2.0.2 is available as a Maven archetype. For information on creating a new project using AppFuse, please see the QuickStart Guide or the demos and videos.

Read more in http://appfuse.org/

by Ernest Hemingway

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.

Take the lot of the happiest–it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings,one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life,under the shadows of sorrow and loss.

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character,not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

by phdunay

Lots of brands are finding out the hard way that there are plenty of conversations taking place about them online. For good or bad.

Many brands choose to ignore this. But hope is not a strategy.

Since consumers rely heavily on the Web as an authoritative source of information, managing a brand’s online reputation has become a top priority for companies. Here are 5 tips that could help you avoid a major disaster and reduce the risk of a flogging in the blogosphere.

Tip 1: Monitor the New Conversational Terrain

You have to be listening. As Woody Allen said, “half of the battle is just showing up.” Create a custom feed based on keyword searches using tools like Technorati, Feedster, IceRocket and news.googlecom.

Tip 2: Measure

Agencies like Nielsen BuzzMetrics and TNS Cymfony (trackback to a podcast on how to measure the blogosphere) have more advanced tools for monitoring social networks, blogs and communities. They also can measure the volume of buzz, track the sources and gauge the emotion of the content, be it positive, negative or just sarcastic.

Tip 3: Engage

If you don’t join the conversation, you have no control. We’ll say it again: hope is not a strategy. Tools like BuzzLogic can give you a picture of a blogger, as well as the influencers that surround any given blog. Also sites like BlogInluence.net and SocialMeter.com can provide a snapshot of any blogger’s street cred.

Tip 4: Buy Keywords?

Yes. If you do end up with a firestorm surrounding your company or brand, why not buy keywords and get your story told? Jim Nail from Cymfony says “for a company to protect its brand, they should be buying keywords.” Consider Wal-Mart as the classic example. “Wal-Mart Sucks” yields negative results for the first 10 listings. So why not own those keywords as paid links to sites that put Wal-Mart in perspective, covering, among other things, the company’s substantial economic benefits to society?

Tip 5: Use PR to Strengthen Your Digital Footprint

Another obvious tactic would be to issue a series of press statements to address whatever the concerns are, and optimize them for the Web. Consider using a press release distribution company such as PRWeb, which sends releases to journalists’ email boxes and makes them Web ready. This will help increase the rankings in news engines such as Google News, as well as in the general search results. When a press release ranks high in a search engine, it’s just one more spot a negative listing won’t appear!

BONUS - why not take my Reputation Management for New Media survey which will give you a sense of how ready your organization is for a reputation disaster? If you leave me your email I will send the results back to you in about a month.

Lucene 2.3.1 contains fixes for serious bugs in 2.3.0

Please upgrade to 2.3.1 if you are currently using 2.3.0 to prevent index corruptions.

Binary and source distributions are available here.

Bugfixes

1. LUCENE-1168: Fixed corruption cases when autoCommit=false and
documents have mixed term vectors (Suresh Guvvala via Mike
McCandless).

2. LUCENE-1171: Fixed some cases where OOM errors could cause
deadlock in IndexWriter (Mike McCandless).

3. LUCENE-1173: Fixed corruption case when autoCommit=false and bulk
merging of stored fields is used (Yonik via Mike McCandless).

4. LUCENE-1163: Fixed bug in CharArraySet.contains(char[] buffer, int
offset, int len) that was ignoring offset and thus giving the
wrong answer.  (Thomas Peuss via Mike McCandless)

5. LUCENE-1177: Fix rare case where IndexWriter.optimize might do too
many merges at the end.  (Mike McCandless)

6. LUCENE-1176: Fix corruption case when documents with no term
vector fields are added before documents with term vector fields.
(Mike McCandless)

7. LUCENE-1179: Fixed assert statement that was incorrectly
preventing Fields with empty-string field name from working.
(Sergey Kabashnyuk via Mike McCandless)

This new release features:

• a redesign of the “second level cache” SPI
• a new integration with JBossCache 2.x taking full advantage of this new SPI (special thanks to Brian Stansberry for his help and hard work on this)
• introduction of the org.hibernate.jdbc.Work API for performing JDBC work without interfering with connection release modes

Read more http://www.hibernate.org/

Change in Scoping Rules for Wildcard Placeholders in Types
A wildcard in a type now binds to the closest enclosing type application.
For example List[List[_]] is now equivalent to the existential type
List[List[t] forSome { type t }]In version 2.7.0, the type expanded instead to
List[List[t]] forSome { type t }The new convention corresponds exactly to the way wildcards in Java are interpreted.

No Contractiveness Requirement for Implicits
The contractiveness requirement for implicit method definitions has been dropped. Instead it is checked for each implicit expansion individually that the expansion does not result in a cycle or a tree of infinitely growing types.

Read more http://www.scala-lang.org/index.html

T-Mobile’s 3G network started going live today, and it looks like that early word from a company memo may not hold true for all users. Some markets may in fact have a silent soft-launch of faster data rates, we’ve heard from several tipsters who’ve said that they’re already getting faster data service, and now the company itself getting the word out that it’s launching data as well. But company peeps were indeed instructed to make sure customers don’t count on that faster data being present; bottom line is you may have it, you may not (but if you take T-Mobile at its word, you should). NYC is the first market to light up, but others should come online soon — anyone trying it out? How’s it going? Hit us up in comments and let us know!

[via Engadget]