Eugenia Loli Archive

OpenGL and Qt; Strong Momentum for Trolltech’s Qt in 2004

Submitted by Johan Thelin 2005-01-24 Qt 1 Comment

The Independent Qt Tutorial has been updated and now has an Italian translation. Also, a new chapter about OpenGL and Qt has been added. The OpenGL chapter is based on NeHe's great tutorial.

The role of JNDI in J2EE

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-24 Java 5 Comments

Mastering J2EE can be daunting, with an ever-growing list of technologies and acronyms. The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) has been at the core of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) from its inception, but it is often underutilized by novice J2EE developers. This article will help demystify the role of JNDI in J2EE applications and show how it can help decouple your application from the details of deployment.

Overview of OpenBSD

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-24 OpenBSD 2 Comments

Most people do not use OpenBSD as a desktop OS, though there are some people who swear by it. This chapter provides an overview of OpenBSD, including its development, features, and the tools available in this operating system for your business.

User Interface Design and the Importance of Color for .NET DBs

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-24 .NET 2 Comments

Colors are another form of data, and in light of the fact that the human eye can perceive more than ten million different colors, that's a potentially huge amount of data. Color theory helps you organize this data into manageable chunks. This chapter outlines color theory, both pigment-based theory and light-based theory.

Testing Effectively With Legacy Code

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-24 General Development No Comments

Testing code isn't the easiest thing in the world, and it gets even more complicated when working with legacy code. This chapter explains the theory behind modular coding and how testing can be difficult in this environment.

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-24 General Development 1 Comment

Just knowing an object-oriented language isn't enough to create object systems. You also have to learn to "think in objects." This chapter explains why it's important to understand what it means to truly be "object-oriented" and how you can build your business by using object-orientation from top to bottom.

UNIX Shell Programming QuickStart

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-24 Unix 5 Comments

So you want to start programming UNIX shells. You could sit down with a dense volume of coding advice, but you're a techie. You want to jump right in and start coding. This chapter will help you get started right away with shell programming in UNIX.

Coming soon to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-24 Red Hat 23 Comments

Learn about three new features coming to Enterprise Linux (D-BUS, HAL & Network Manager) that are designed to make hardware "just work." The technologies that make this possible were inspired by Havoc Pennington's paper on this topic.

Beagle Flash Demos Available

Submitted by Ramsees Olveira 2005-01-24 Novell and Ximian 86 Comments

Novell's Nat Friedman put up a bunch of demos demonstrating Beagle on Linux. Beagle is an indexing & search utility similar to Apple's upcoming Spotlight (both similar to Be's BeFS regarding "live queries" and metadata, but Be's solution could not search inside documents as both Beagle and Spotlight can).

Portage for Solaris

Submitted by Anonymous 2005-01-23 Gentoo 54 Comments

Pieter Van den Abeele of Gentoo writes in his blog: "The Gentoo team has done an amazing job creating the most customizable meta-distribution on todays market. One of our projects codenamed Portaris, has been maintaining Gentoo Portage on top of Solaris9 and Solaris10 builds. I am pleased to announce that Gentoo is considering integrating OpenSolaris support into the machine readable knowledge base we call Portage."

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ACCESS Unveils NetFront 3.3 Browser Engine; Nokia 9300 Review

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-23 Wireless 9 Comments

NetFront v3.3 browser engine delivers new features that provide a more functional Internet browsing experience on mobile devices. Key elements include enhanced support for Dynamic HTML, intelligent frame handling, pop-up blocking and support for Really Simple Syndication (RSS). Additional key features include Atom Feed support, encryption and saving of Web data with a specified URL, and management of Web data and passwords. Elsewhere, we have a review of the Nokia 9300 (series 80 device) running the Symbian 7.0S OS.

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Firebird Relational Database 1.5.2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-23 Databases 31 Comments

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Many fixes were made for this release. Blobs containing more than 65535 segments were not being backed up by GBAK properly. ISQL problems that were fixed include statement terminators and "--" comments that are no longer recognized in multi-line literals, and tab characters that are no longer translated to spaces in literal strings.

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64bit MenuetOS In the Works

Submitted by Denux 2005-01-23 OS News 16 Comments

Ville Turjanmaa creator of the pretty well known Pure ASM OS, MenuetOS has recently spent some time away from the project working on a 64bit version of MenuetOS.

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Sun to announce open source DTrace on Tuesday

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-23 Solaris 34 Comments

Sun Microsystems told NewsForge/ITMJ Thursday that it intends to open source a small but important new feature in Solaris 10 -- Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), a new framework for troubleshooting the network and tuning system performance in real time.

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Slackware 10.1 Beta1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-23 Slackware, Slax 43 Comments

Slackware 10.1-Beta1 is now released for those who want to upgrade to the -Current tree. The final version is expected soon.

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Sun’s Schwartz criticized IBM on ignoring Solaris on x86

Submitted by kasra yousefi 2005-01-22 Oracle and SUN 170 Comments

In an open letter to IBM's CEO, Sun president Jonathan Schwartz accuses IBM of ignoring customers' requests on supporting Solaris on x86. He says the customers are "feeling that your withholding support is part of a vendor lock-in strategy."

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FreeBSD’s SMPng

Submitted by Stuck_In_The_Snow 2005-01-22 FreeBSD 27 Comments

Federico Biancuzzi interviewed FreeBSD Core member Scott Long about the SMPng technology, the current implementation status, future goals, and plans.

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Ambient, the MorphOS desktop, becomes free

Submitted by David Gerber 2005-01-22 Morphos 33 Comments

The MorphOS front-end software, Ambient, is now free, full with source code. Download here.

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An interview with Jaluna execs Michel Gien and Michel Genard

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-22 In the News No Comments

This interesting interview with two top executives of Jaluna -- a company that has developed a sort of "VMware for embedded systems" that enables Linux to run alongside a real-time-control OS on gadgets like smartphones and set-top boxes -- delves into the French venture-funded startup's history, technology, market perspective, and vision of how Linux will dominate the embedded devices space.

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Macintosh Justification

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-22 Apple 157 Comments

You'll see that the underlying reason in almost every case where the Mac lost out to Wintel doesn't have anything to do with rational arguments based on cost, performance or functionality. Instead, Wintel proponents are shown as consistently fudging such arguments as rationales for decisions already made.

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