Java is a basic requisite for lots Web applications. Unfortunately, Oracle sometimes pushes out an update that either lacks proper security fixes or prevents an application from installing. Adobe says the newest update affected its ColdFusion installer and has offered a fix. In a post at the ColdFusion blog, Adobe’s Krishna Reddy says the newest Java update prevents the ColdFusion Installer from launching on Mac OS X. The unique Java update was pushed in mid-June, but it’s since been patched. The issue is that some ColdFusion users could have installed the broken Java update, and people users won’t have received the patched version. For those users, Reddy recommends that ColdFusion users on Mac OS X download the newest Java update direct from Apple’s Site. Mac OS X 10.7/10.8 users should download the newest Java update from here, and Mac OS X 10.6.8 users can grab their version here. Reddy then recommends that every one ColdFusion users perform the next test in order for they’ve the... Read More »

[ Developer] Android has bugdroid. Linux has Tux the penguin. Both had been immortalized in plush toys, action figures or even remote controlled robots. What about PHP’s lovable ElePHPant though? Where’s the affection for him? Well, somebody has already made a blue, pink and red ElePHPant, but one man desires to add yet another color. Eli White, co-owner of php[architect], recently took to Kickstarter to fund the creation of an orange ElePHPant. Why orange? The magazine’s signature color is orange and needs to celebrate its 11 years of publication with an orange colored ElePHPant. If you’re thinking that demand for an orange ElePHPant wouldn’t be that top, you’d be wrong. The Kickstarter campaign only asked for $1,000, but has already received almost $18,000 in pledges because it started on Thursday. Most of these backers – 200 of them – have pledged $20 to receive a single small ElePHPant. Exclusive to Kickstarter, php{architect] can be producing large ElePHPants for $100 each. Almost 40 backers have already... Read More »

Your smartphone has become an extension of you. That fact has even brought about the upward thrust of a brand new branch of studies in evolution, one who examines how we use modern technology to conform and extend ourselves and our brains. The assumption is that our smartphones and other such devices are becoming portion of our brains. We not ought to remember phone numbers. We now have then in our phones. Learning is a breeze, so long as you’ve gotten a smartphone and Internet connection. That “extension of ourselves” factor about smartphones has ended in numerous cynical observations about how people can’t appear to study one another, have a tight dinner, interact “normally”, without looking down at their devices frequently. ABC News now reports that one company has found how to use that to their – and doubtless your – advantage. “We glance at our phones, on average, 150 times per day,” said Yunha Kim, co-founder and CEO of Locket. Locket is an Android... Read More »

Do you go native or HTML5? It’s a matter that’s becoming increasingly harder to reply to as HTML5 flourishes right into a mature platform. There are still lots of advantages to going native, but HTML5 requires you build an app just once and it really works across various devices. Now you can add the Kindle Fire to these devices. Amazon announced today that it’s now accepting submissions of HTML5 apps and mobile optimized Websites. These apps could be sold alongside native apps at the Amazon Appstore for both Kindle Fire and the Amazon Appstore for Android. To start, Amazon has spread out a brand new section on its developer portal called Amazon Web App Resources. The website not just includes the tools had to monetize your Web apps, but it surely also includes what it calls the net App Tester. This tool will assist you to test your app to make certain it runs smoothly on both the Kindle Fire and Android devices. You are... Read More »

[ Developer] As Oracle continues to enhance the Java Development Kit, the corporate has stated that it’ll not be pushing back the discharge of Java SE 8. The update continues to be on schedule for its March 18 release date. The general Java 8 release candidate ought to be available starting on January 23. Despite Oracle crunching to get Java 8 suit for the scheduled deadline, the update will still ship with known bugs that coders will be unable to mend before launch. The corporate is relating them as non-showstopper bugs and says that it’ll be delaying fixes on them to make sure Java 8 hits its March release deadline. Java 8 was originally scheduled to launch during September 2013, but was delayed due to numerous java security vulnerabilities uncovered during the last year. Oracle has since stated that it’s inside the means of fixing decade-old security problems introduced into Java before the corporate even purchased Sun Microsystems. Java 8 will bring numerous features to... Read More »