Microsoft’s Take on the Palm Alliance
MS PressPass interviewed their own Pieter Knook about the now historic Palm-Microsoft alliance.
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Windows XP Gets Some Glass
Stardock has unveiled its first beta of WindowBlinds 5 and with it, glass effects for Windows XP users. Stardock claims that beta 1 of WindowBlinds 5 achieves performance on the same level as the current beta of Windows Vista in terms of delivering glass effects. WindowBlinds 5 also is able to do deliver glass effects on relatively low-end hardware (though it still requires a video card with at least 32MB of video memory).
Book Review: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
Addison-Wesley sent us in the hardcover second edition of the popular book title "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" and we had a quick look at this classic.
What’s Coming on GTK+ 2.10
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Kristian Rietveld blogs what to expect on GTK 2.10+ e.g. offscreen widgets, faster dialogs and more. Meanwhile, GTK+ stable version 2.8.6 was released with various bug fixes.
An Introduction to Extending Applications with LUA
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A small article introducing the a techniques involved in making C code extensible with the addition of the LUA scripting language.
Microsoft’s Complete Longhorn Terminal Server Feature List
A lot of information about the new features of Terminal Server in Longhorn has come out over the past few weeks. In this article, Brian Madden has collected, organized, and commented on all the new stuff.
Where Might Google Go Next?
In just seven years, Google Inc. has morphed from a bare-bones online search engine into a technological octopus that seems to sprout another intriguing tentacle every other week.
Visopsys 0.58 Released
Likely the last of the Visopsys 0.5x series (a sparkly new 0.6 is imminent), this maintenance and bugfix release sports some new features such as EXT2 formatting, German keyboard layouts, GUID generation, and filesystem clobber. Version 0.58 also includes a number of important bugfixes to the featured Disk Manager partitioning program. Change log here and downloads here. As always, you can demo this tiny, full-GUI hobby OS from the ISO image or from a single floppy disk.
Conventional Software Testing on a Scrum Team
The Scrum methodology can pose a challenge for software testers who are used to more traditional waterfall-inspired development processes. Jonathan Kohl relates his experiences working on Scrum teams who found some clear advantages in changing their methods.
Creating a .NET Windows Service: Three Different Approaches
Ravindra Okade explores three different approaches to creating a .NET service: a timer-based service, a service using a single worker thread, and a service using multiple worker threads.
Native Cocoa OpenOffice.org Build Planned
One of the announcements at the current OO.oCon is the decision to build a Cocoa-based version of OpenOffice.org 2.x for Mac OS X. This is a step forward compared to the current X11-based port and the Neo/J Office which is not up-to-date. No timeframe estimation was given for the completion of the project.
FAQ: HD DVD vs. Blu ray
Microsoft and Intel last week tried to swing the computing, consumer electronics and entertainment industry toward HD DVD in a format war to establish a higher-capacity successor to today's DVD. It didn't work.
Scoping Your Transition Projects
Read this article to determine your transition path and learn what you’ll need to do to make your application ready for Intel-based Macintosh computers.
Arch Linux Founder Lays Out Plan
Judd Vinet, Arch Linux's founder, posted a message discussing the future of his distro and his plans.
Bluetooth Boogies Java File Transfer with JSR-82
The Bluetooth protocol stack lets you use several methods, including RFCOMM and Object Exchange (OBEX), to send and receive files between devices. Become familiar with the Java language library used to control a Bluetooth device and learn how to use JSR-82 API. OBEX is great way to send object data, context, and metadata about the payload.
Gizmo on a PocketPC via the SJPhone SIP Client
After some trial and error, I got the popular Gizmo run on my PocketPC via the SJPhone SIP client (there is no native Gizmo client for PDAs). Read more for the instructions.
Microsoft Confirms Next XP Service Pack
Microsoft has revealed plans to release a third service pack for its Windows XP operating system.
Ubuntu Carves Niche in Linux Landscape
It's not easy building a new version of Linux and establishing a large following. But with the Ubuntu project, one team of programmers has managed to do just that.
Microsoft Woos Symbian, PalmOS Developers
Microsoft has released three papers designed to help mobile application developers from other platforms migrate their applications to Windows Mobile. The first and second papers involve migrating developers and applications from Symbian OS and the third paper is a guide for developers moving from Palm OS.
GCC 4.0.2 Released
Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.0.2. He explains, "this release is a minor release, containing primarily fixes for regressions in GCC 4.0.1 relative to previous releases."