The Rockies filed applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Oct. 4 asking for exclusive rights to the name [Rocktober] on stuffed animals, Christmas stockings, baby booties, T-shirts, bobble-head dolls and the like.read more | digg story

Eclipse Europa is the annual release of Eclipse projects…the Europa release is a coordinated release of different Eclipse project teams. This year, the annual release includes 21 projects. By releasing these projects at the same time, the goal is to eliminate uncertainty about version compatibility and make it easier…read more | digg story

This introductory article gets you started using JRuby and the Java platform. It shows you how to set up JRuby, explains the basics of using JRuby scripts with Java applications and the NetBeans integrated development environment (NetBeans IDE)…. Also, the Getting Started section briefly introduces RubyGems and Ruby on Rails.read more | digg story

“With the acclaimed “Battlestar Galactica” wrapping up next year, is there any chance of a feature film continuation? Doubtful it seems…Glen Larson hasn’t exactly been happy…and he holds the feature film rights - thus his co-operation would be required”read more | digg story

The Canon Digital Camera SDKs comprise a set of APIs, DLLs, and static link libraries that provide an interface for accessing Canon digital cameras and data generated by Canon digital cameras…All Canon Digital Camera SDK versions are written in C.read more | digg story

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. Version 3.3 RC3 has been releasedread more | digg story

“…I needed an easy way to traverse Java object trees and extract values from the objects. Instead of continually going through huge iterator-if-else setups, I wanted a tool that would allow me to simply say, “I want the object with id=X, and from that object, I need the value of property A.” In essence, I […]

Your digital image’s EXIF data may be compromised if you use Vista’s Photo Acquisition Wizard to download your images from your camera. I guess owning the MBR (master boot record) was not enough; MS now wants your EXIF.read more | digg story

Some say it was the most exciting part of the NBA all-star weekend. The 43 year old “Round Mound of Rebound” was able to beat the the 67 year old NBA ref Dick Bavetta in a charity race.read more | digg story

IBM is releasing an SDK for Java 6 and is sponsoring an Early Release Program to gather feedback from the Java community. Product binaries and documentation are available for Linux on x86 and 64-bit AMD, and AIX for PPC for 32- and 64-bit systems.read more | digg story