General Development Archive

Researchers seek simpler software debugging

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-27 General Development 8 Comments

Computer bugs, or errors in software, can mess up just about anything: They've been blamed for missing homework, blackouts, prison breaks and even the loss of multimillion-dollar space probes. Andrew Ko, a computer researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about a new debugging program, Whyline.

Komodo 3.0 Released

Submitted by tk421 2004-07-27 General Development 7 Comments

For many developers, there's usually more than one dynamic language that they use to do their jobs. It's also ActiveState's job with its latest IDE release for professional developers using open source dynamic languages, Komodo 3.0. Dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and XLST are all part of the Komodo IDE, which strives to make developers lives easier by offering a common interface and toolset to develop in multiple languages.

eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 SP4 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-27 General Development No Comments

Service Pack 4 (SP4) allows existing eVC4 users to target Windows CE 5.0 based devices. In addition to supporting the new Windows CE 5.0 platform, SP4 is cumulative in nature and includes support for Windows CE 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 based platforms as well. This download must be installed on top of existing eVC4 installations (the full eMbedded VC++ 4.x is free to download).

Getting Started With C++ SDKs and Symbian Development

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-26 General Development 1 Comment

This chapter overviews the process of building, deploying and running an example Series 60 application with a Graphical User Interface.

Tracing multithreaded applications using CTrace

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-23 General Development 5 Comments

This article details the use of an open-source multithreaded trace/debug library called CTrace. It also presents a method of remotely tracing a running application by using the SSH protocol.

Cross-platform packaging facility OpenPKG 2.1 released

Submitted by Ralf S. Engelschall 2004-07-20 General Development 4 Comments

The OpenPKG project released version 2.1 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software packaging facility.

Building Subversion With Java Bindings On Mac OS X

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-18 General Development No Comments

Building Subversion on Mac OS X is not hard. Building the Java bindings for Subversion is challenging until you know what to do. Hopefully you find this information helpful.

Autopackage 0.6 released

Submitted by Josh 2004-07-18 General Development 53 Comments

Autopackage 0.6 was released, the multi-distro packaging system.

Subversion 1.1.0 coming up

Submitted by tom 2004-07-15 General Development 12 Comments

The first release candidate of Subversion 1.1.0 is ready and available. From the release notes: Subversion 1.1 can best be summarized as: (1) a new non-database repository back-end, and (2) a whole slew of client-side improvements.

Operator Overloading in Visual Basic 2005

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-15 General Development 16 Comments

Operator Overloading, new to Visual Basic 2005, simplifies the use & development of complex types by allowing you to specify your own implementation for standard operations such as addition & subtraction.

Document Indexing Systems Comparison

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-14 General Development 3 Comments

Here's an interesting article by Seth Nickell, comparing Metadata Index Systems and Document Stores.

Interview with Charles Simonyi on Intentional Programming

Submitted by Marc van Woerkom 2004-07-14 General Development 4 Comments

"Last week we spent some time with Sergey Dmitriev who talked about his Meta Programming System, which he says fits Charles Simonyi's model of Intentional Programming. This generated a lot of interest, so I contacted Charles himself to see if we could talk with him about it and he graciously accepted to talk about his work at Intentional Software. He was also very speedy in his response to my questions, which allowed me to publish his interview this following week." Read the interview here.

PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too

Submitted by Henrique Neto 2004-07-14 General Development 31 Comments

After years of anticipation, PHP 5 was released today. This release represents a milestone in the evolution of PHP. It sports the new Zend Engine II, a completely re-worked object model, and many many new features.

Python development with Eclipse and Ant

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-12 General Development 11 Comments

Python is a flexible and powerful dynamic scripting language with full object-oriented features. Its many proponents say that the Python language allows them to express their intentions more directly and efficiently than other languages. But newcomers to Python from the Java technology or Microsoft .NET world may find themselves missing their feature-rich and polished IDEs and development tools.

The Avalon Control Content Model: What Happened to Control.Text?

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-10 General Development 6 Comments

Jeff Bogdan explores Avalon's control content model, a concept that can be nearly missed by the developer on first encounter, but one that provides extreme flexibility when meeting the demands of richer scenarios.

Visual Studio 2005 “Whidbey” Enterprise Dev Edition Alpha Preview

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-08 General Development 20 Comments

Fernando has previewed Visual Studio 2005 Codename "Whidbey" Enterprise Developer Edition Alpha. Below is an excerpt: " Visual SourceSafe is a viable solution that lets you effectively manage project files. It tracks and stores changes to a file so that developers can review a file's history, return to earlier versions of the file and develop programs concurrently."

GCC 3.4.1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-06 General Development 37 Comments

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 3.4.1. Mark explains, "there are no new features in this release, but there are a lot of improvements for various languages and architectures."

Reduce C/C++ compile time with distcc

Submitted by Shellie 2004-07-04 General Development 24 Comments

Some people prefer the convenience of pre-compiled binaries in the form of RPMs or other such installer methods. But this can be a false economy, especially with programs that are used frequently: precompiled binaries will never run as quickly as those compiled with the right optimizations for your own machine. If you use a distributed compiler, you get the best of both worlds: fast compile and faster apps. This article shows you the benifits of using distcc, a distributed C compiler based on gcc, that gives you significant productivity gains.

Setting Up Subversion for One or Multiple Projects

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-02 General Development 12 Comments

This article showing you how to deploy a secure and manageable Subversion installation that uses Apache 2.0 as a central authentication checkpoint.

Five Performance Tools for Linux on PowerPC

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-28 General Development 8 Comments

This article describes Performance Inspector, which contains a suite of performance tools for Linux. The author describes how to download and install the required software and tools, and how to collect performance data. She also provides details on how to use the five basic tools, which you can use to analyze performance of your C/C++ and Java apps, as well as performance of your system as a whole.