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General Development Archive

Business Service Grid, Part 7: Keeping informed

Parts 1 – 6 of this series describe a service domain that represents a collection of comparable or related Web services through a common services entry point. In this article, we discuss how to keep up with the information that is available from the service domain. Why should you and why shouldn't you care about the information? We introduce several ways of using the information and discuss some approaches for optimizing its management.

MegaJogos: The case of the fully utilized CPU

Do you like playing detective and solving mysteries? Performance problems come in many guises, giving you ample opportunity to indulge your clue-hunting proclivities to identify and resolve them. The main man behind the MegaJogos multi-player game site and a member of the Java Games community, recently altered the application behind the site to use the NIO package to enhance its scalability.

The Future of OSS Desktop Development: Java, Mono, or C++?

"Mono as it currently stands has serious problems, including strategic and intellectual property concerns. Java as provided by Sun is not open source or GPL-compatible and thus a nonstarter. Many strong proprietary companies such as Microsoft are moving full speed ahead on high-level managed language platforms. Can open source compete, or is it too unable to make hard decisions?" Read Havoc Pennington's article about the future platforms of OSS.

eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 SP3 Released

eMbedded VC++ 4.0 SP3 merges the functionality of eMbedded VC++ 4.0 SP1 and eMbedded VC++ 4.0 SP2 and enables development using a single development machine to target Windows CE 4.0, 4.10 or 4.20 Platforms. eVC4 SP3 installation includes previously released QFEs for eMbedded VC++ 4.0. After you install this, you might also wanna get the Pocket PC 2003 emulator and the Smartphone emulator which run on top of eMbedded VC++ 4.0.

Review: theKompany Black Adder Python IDE

Before beginning, I must offer my profuse apologies to Shawn Gordon and the rest of theKompany crew. Shawn sent me the Black Adder software several months ago; however, my schedule ballooned beyond all believable bounds and has stubbornly maintained that ludicrous pace; unfortunately. I have not had an opportunity to write this review until recently, so I am sorry for my tardiness. And now to answer the most obvious question; what is Black Adder?

REALbasic adds ability to build Linux applications

REALbasic 5.5 is shipping from REAL Software, and the new version of development environment adds the ability to build Linux applications from Mac and Windows systems, as well as other features of particular interest to Mac OS X users. "Even if Mac users have never had any experience with programming before, they can learn REALbasic and create useful applications to improve their productivity," Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software, told MacMinute.