http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:34:08 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21800/First_Steps_in_Scripting_the_Vim_Editor/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21800/First_Steps_in_Scripting_the_Vim_Editor/ In part-1 you can begin to understand the fundamental components of the Vimscript programming language with simple script examples. In Part-2 you can learn how to create and deploy new user defined functions in the Vimscript language. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:11:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21786/Create_a_Mobile_Application_for_Android_Using_Scala_Eclipse/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21786/Create_a_Mobile_Application_for_Android_Using_Scala_Eclipse/ The Android operating system provides a powerful, open platform for mobile development. It leverages the power of the Java programming language and the Eclipse tools platform. Now you can add the Scala programming language to that mix. In this article, see how you can use Scala as the primary development language on Android. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:40:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21780/A_Second_Order_Virtual_Machine_with_Falcon/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21780/A_Second_Order_Virtual_Machine_with_Falcon/ "Lately, the Falcon Programming Language has attracted growing interest and excited a deal of curiosity. In this article I'll document some unique features of Falcon that allow users to build easily what I define as a 'second order virtual machine'." Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:46:25 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News pas de calais http://www.osnews.com/story/21755/PHP_5_3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21755/PHP_5_3_Released/ "The open source PHP language is seeing its first major update in two years courtesy of today's release of PHP 5.3, along with a long list of new features designed to expand its capabilities and accelerate performance. The PHP 5.3 release is a bigger release than developers first intended, and takes on some features that were originally intended for PHP 6. The new release also comes as the open source language continues to face competitive challenges from multiple technologies including Ruby, Java and .net." Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:42:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21746/FastOS_Workshop_Video_Proceedings_Available/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21746/FastOS_Workshop_Video_Proceedings_Available/ The video proceedings of the 2009 FastOS workshop are being made available as a video podcast rss feed (also available for subscription directly from the iTunes store). The first three talks are now available with new talks being posted every week. The complete schedule of talks along with the slides which were presented are available here. FastOS is a Department of Energy/Office of Science funded program focused on exploratory work in operating systems and runtimes for petascale and beyond supercomputers. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:04:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News ericvh http://www.osnews.com/story/21686/Crossover_8_0_Available/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21686/Crossover_8_0_Available/ It's that time of year again-- the time for the latest and greatest Crossover release for both Mac and Linux platforms. Version 8.0 brings new and updated support for many applications, especially Quicken 2009, Microsoft Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 7 (why Linux or Mac users would want IE7 is beyond me, but to each his own). Also, the Wine project has, of course, benefited more from Crossover's advancements. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:35:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) General Development 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21682/Erlang_s_Creator_Speaks_Candidly_About_Open_Source/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21682/Erlang_s_Creator_Speaks_Candidly_About_Open_Source/ Erlang, originally created by Ericsson in 1986, is a functional programming language which was released as open source around 10 years ago and flourished ever since. In this Q&A, Erlang creator Joe Armstrong talks about its beginnings as a control program for a telephone exchange, its flexibility and its modern day usage in open source programs. "In the Erlang world we have over twenty years of experience with designing and implementing parallel algorithms. What we loose in sequential processing speed we win back in parallel performance and fault-tolerance," Armstrong said. He also mentions how multi-core processors pushed the development of Erlang and the advantages of hot swapping. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:00:02 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News Ryan http://www.osnews.com/story/21650/_Hello_World_Considered_Harmful_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21650/_Hello_World_Considered_Harmful_/ This series is aimed at programming language aficionados. There's a lot of very abstract writing about programming languages and a lot of simple minded "language X sux!" style blog posts by people who know next to nothing about programming. What I feel is sorely missing is a kind of article that deliberately sacrifices the last 10% of precision that make the theoretical articles dry and long winded but still makes a point and discusses the various trade offs involved. This series is meant to fill that void and hopefully start a lot of discussions that are more enlightening than the articles themselves. I will point out some parallels in different parts of computing that I haven't seen mentioned as well as analyze some well known rules of thumb and link to interesting blogs and articles. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:00:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) General Development 61 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 Feature RandomGuy http://www.osnews.com/story/21556/Using_Git_with_Vim/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21556/Using_Git_with_Vim/ I recently started using Git for my local revision control. Since I spend about 90% of my coding time inside the Vim editor, I went looking for a plugin that would make Vim play nice with Git. In this article I present two different vim plugins and explore their feature-set via screenshots. Tue, 26 May 2009 12:31:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Amjith Ramanujam) General Development 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/21533/Displaying_SQL_Server_Data_Using_a_Linq_Data_Source/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21533/Displaying_SQL_Server_Data_Using_a_Linq_Data_Source/ This article describes step-by-step how you may utilize the LinqDataSource control in Visual Studio 2008 and use it together with a GridView control to display server data. SQL Server 2008 provides the backend data in the form of Customers table. Thu, 21 May 2009 17:18:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News Ramsai http://www.osnews.com/story/21520/Using_PHP_Directly_from_the_CLI_on_Linux/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21520/Using_PHP_Directly_from_the_CLI_on_Linux/ Learn how to better integrate scripts with command-line tools. Examine using shell_exec(), exec(), passthru(), and system(); safely passing information to the command line; and safely retrieving information from it. See how to integrate closely with underlying shell commands and folding any return values into your interfaces and processes. Tue, 19 May 2009 21:03:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21493/Microsoft_s_Axum_Parallel_Programming_Language_Advances/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21493/Microsoft_s_Axum_Parallel_Programming_Language_Advances/ Microsoft has come one step closer to delivering a parallel programming language to developers. On May 8, Microsoft made Axum, the company's foray into parallel programming, available on its MSDN DevLabs portal. Axum is a .NET language for building parallel applications. According to a Microsoft description, Axum "is a language that builds upon the architecture of the Web and principles of isolation, actors and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity." Thu, 14 May 2009 09:43:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21459/Industrial-Strength_Python_Testing_Frameworks/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21459/Industrial-Strength_Python_Testing_Frameworks/ The recent emergence of industrial-strength Python testing frameworks means that Python tests are being written more succinctly, more uniformly, and with better reporting of results than ever before. Adopting one of the new generation of Python testing frameworks will provide concise idioms and uniform testing techniques that, in the past, every Python project had to supply for itself. Fri, 08 May 2009 22:05:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21450/Scripting_the_Vim_Editor_with_Vimscript/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21450/Scripting_the_Vim_Editor_with_Vimscript/ Vimscript is a mechanism for reshaping and extending the Vim editor. Scripting allows you to create new tools, simplify common tasks, and even redesign and replace existing editor features. This article introduces the fundamental components of the Vimscript programming language: values, variables, expressions, statements, functions, and commands. These features are demonstrated and explained through a series of simple examples. Thu, 07 May 2009 21:26:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21361/GCC_4_4_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21361/GCC_4_4_0_Released/ GCC 4.4.0 has been released. There are many interesting changes, including the merge of the Graphite branch, which is "a new framework for loop optimizations based on a polyhedral intermediate representation", improved support of the upcoming C++0x standard, and a new register allocator. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:47:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) General Development 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/31 News diegocg