General Development Archive

Make Alternatives

Eugenia Loli 2005-07-10 General Development 37 Comments

"Last week, I listed what I think is wrong with Make. This week, I offer my suggestions for alternatives," writes Adrian Neagu on his editorial at Freshmeat.

Eclipse Toolkit For Kick-Starting Workplace Client Apps

Submitted by anonymous 2005-07-09 General Development 2 Comments

IBM Workplace Managed Client Developer Toolkit is based on the Eclipse architecture and is compatible with Linux. It provides wizards, navigators, builders, and other tools for application developers who wish to develop, test, and deploy applications.

Bochs 2.2.1 Released

Andrew Youll 2005-07-09 General Development 11 Comments

Bochs 2.2.1 has been released on July 8, 2005. You can download it from the Source Forge project page. See the CHANGES file for details on what has changed since version 2.2.

The New C Standard

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-08 General Development 11 Comments

As seen on Slashdot: "At a very late stage Addison Wesley decided not to publish my book, 'The New C Standard: An economic and cultural commentary' I am making the pdf freely available. You can download the pdf (mirror). The organization is rather unusual in that the commentary covers each sentence of the C Standard (actually the latest draft of C0X, excluding library) one by one (all 2022 of them)."

An Introduction To Delta Debugging

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-07 General Development 9 Comments

Delta Debugging is an automatic and systematic technique that deals with isolation of the source of the failure -- often the developer's longest, most demotivating, and most repetitive activity when carried out manually. Read more...

Rapido – A Visual Profiler For Linux-x86

Submitted by Nadav 2005-07-06 General Development 10 Comments

Rapido is a visual profiler for Linux-x86. The program helps in visualizing and describing what's going on in the heart of the program. It helps developers in finding and analyzing bottlenecks in their applications.

Random Number Generators: What Do You Need One For?

Submitted by Flavio Villanustre 2005-07-05 General Development 19 Comments

Random numbers are utilized in many different areas, ranging from cryptography (in general) to source port and process ID randomization in some operating systems. So what is exactly a random number generator?

Cleaning Up With AJAX

Submitted by Fatankles 2005-07-04 General Development 16 Comments

AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML seems to be all the rage at the moment. Builder has published a handy primer to get started using AJAX today.

Easy File Save And File Load Mechanism To Your C++ Program

Submitted by Eugenia 2005-07-04 General Development 20 Comments

Why waste your time figuring out an algorithm for storing things in a file? And why spend time debugging the code? Let the Boost library do it for you. Saving your data to your own custom-made file formats is easy with the help of the Boost serialization templates. Jeff Cogswell shows you how to save the data and read it back in with ease.

Introduction to the Spring Framework

Submitted by anonymous 2005-07-02 General Development 18 Comments

This article gives an introduction to the Spring framework, including Spring aspect-oriented programming (AOP) and the Inversion of Control (IOC) container. It provides an example to inject dependencies, or services, into a working credit card account application rather than having to build them in from the ground up.

Xen in Fedora Core 4

Submitted by Rahul Sundaram 2005-06-30 General Development 19 Comments

A look at Xen related development and how the implementation works in Fedora Core 4 along with some information on the development plans.

HLA: The High Level Assembly Programming Language

Thom Holwerda 2005-06-30 General Development 45 Comments

For Linux users, HLA is a strong programming tool that allows them to create powerful programs on a variety of different levels. As HLA becomes more feature-rich, additional applications will be written using HLA under Linux. With HLA and Linux, programmers can develop new and exciting applications anyone can use. Read more.

PySWT a Python Binding to SWT

Submitted by Zilin Du 2005-06-30 General Development 28 Comments

PySWT is a Python Binding to the IBM Eclipse SWT library, to provide Python with a cross platform native looking GUI.

Microsoft Wants A Piece Of The Ajax Action

Thom Holwerda 2005-06-29 General Development 25 Comments

After downplaying the importance of the emerging Ajax programming model, Microsoft Corp. has decided to jump with booth feet into the Ajax fray. On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled "Atlas," a Web client framework that is designed to support multiple DHTML controls with JavaScript code.

Filesystem Snapshots With unionfs

Submitted by Flavio Villanustre 2005-06-28 General Development 13 Comments

Many times, you need to know how a certain filesystem looked like at some point in time, and you want to be able to roll back changes that happened to it after that point. While there are multiple solutions to achieve this goal, certainly one of them is to use filesystem snapshots. One of the capabilities of unionfs is to offer the possibility of consistently freezing the status of the filesystem at any given point in time (snapshot). Read more...

What Developers Want

Thom Holwerda 2005-06-28 General Development 13 Comments

Irrespective of the language programmers choose for expressing solutions, their wants and needs are similar. They need to be productive and efficient, with technologies that do not get in the way but rather help them produce high-quality software. In this article, we share our top ten list of programmers' common wants and needs.

Why I Teach Eclipse

David Adams 2005-06-23 General Development 39 Comments

Given the rapid rate of technological change, how much can I -- or should I -- teach my students about specific tools? Professor Gary Pollice discusses the virtues of Eclipse technology and explains why he and other instructors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute use it in their courses.

Road test: .NET development without Visual Studio

Submitted by nankles 2005-06-23 General Development 24 Comments

If you are considering moving to .NET development and don't want to break the bank by forking out the money for Visual Studio Builder have a comparison of .NET tools you might want to use. The review includes SharpDevelop, MonoDevelop, XDevelop, Visual SlickEdit, and DreamWeaver.

Patch Management: Q&A with Thom Bailey

Submitted by Scott 2005-06-21 General Development 1 Comment

Patches are small, sometimes temporary "quick fixes" that address often critical software flaws. Patches are usually made available by software vendors in between service packs or version upgrades upon confirmation that a software flaw affects a large number of users with usually serious consequences.

Mastering Recursive Programming

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-20 General Development 73 Comments

Recursion is a tool not often used by imperative language developers, because it is thought to be slow and to waste space, but as the author demonstrates, there are several techniques that can be used to minimize or eliminate these problems. He introduces the concept of recursion and tackle recursive programming patterns, examining how they can be used to write provably correct programs.