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Interview with Eric Gunnerson, Program Manager of Visual C# .NET

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-11 General Development 31 Comments

While covering TechEd 2003 for us last week, Chad Myers managed to sit down and interview Eric Gunnerson, a Program Manager in the Visual C# .NET group at Microsoft. In the interview, Eric discusses the future of C#, other languages, and more.

Can Borland Ride the Life Cycle?

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-06 General Development 29 Comments

Borland Software has legions of software coders to thank for its sometimes improbable survival over the past two decades. Once again the company is trying to change its colors, but this time executives promise not to forget their roots. Read the article at ADTMag.

SciTech MGL 5.0 R10 Released; Removes Need for X on Linux

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-05 General Development 67 Comments

SciTech Software, Inc. announced it has released SciTech MGL 5.0 R10 for multiple operating systems including Linux, under a dual-license structure. Developers can now use SciTech MGL under the LGPL, or through SciTech’s commercial software license for those seeking to offer closed source solutions. Both versions come complete with source code and more than 1600 pages of online documentation. SciTech MGL comes with direct support for VGA, VESA VBE and DirectX compatible graphics cards out of the box via the SciTech SNAP Graphics device driver architecture.

Understanding C++ Program Structure

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-02 General Development 8 Comments

Learn how C++ program structure works, from the perspective of functions and data. This sample chapter covers function definitions, inline functions, recursion, pointers to functions, and functions with default arguments. It also describes structures and unions, member functions, and passing structures and unions as arguments. Additionally, you'll learn about C++ storage classes, exceptions, namespaces, and free store memory. Another dev article, named "Using Java Development Tools in Eclipse" is also available.

Python 2.2.3 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-01 General Development 22 Comments

Python 2.2.3-final is a bug-fix release of Python. More information can be found here.

MAZ Lab Presents Innovative Visual Development Environment

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-30 General Development 27 Comments

The MIM Visual Development Environment simplifies software programming by turning it into an intuitive visual environment for novice and experienced programmers. Maz Lab claims this is a huge innovation. They sent us --exclusively-- three mockups of their upcoming product (shot 1, shot 2, shot 3). Read more for the full press release.

What’s Wrong with C++ Templates?

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-28 General Development 25 Comments

If you've read 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' and its sequels, you probably remember the Vogons, the incredibly ugly, disgusting, and bad-tempered aliens charged with destroying Earth to clear the path for an intergalactic highway.

Multiprocessor Work Sharing with Cocoa; Real Basic Tutorials

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-26 General Development 14 Comments

Restructure your code for multiprocessor Macs and take advantage of SMP with the help of Cocoa. Elsewhere, you will find a tutorial of Real Basic under Mac OS X, the 21st in the long series.

Inside Microsoft’s New F# Language

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-23 General Development 23 Comments

"Rumors of a new .NET language have been circulating around the cyber-grapevine for the last year or so, but have picked up speed as of late. The fire was fed by Mary Jo Foley's (columnist, Microsoft Watch) recent news story Add F# To the Alphabet Soup. Strangely enough, there hasn't been a peep from Microsoft. The only published information I can find is hosted on the Microsoft Research (MR) site. So, I donned my thinking cap, and proceeded with reckless abandon. Here begins the tale…" Read the article at ExtremeTech.

Microsoft Sells Visual Studio.Net 2003 Upgrade for 29 USD

Submitted by Sage Salvatore 2003-05-16 General Development 34 Comments

Microsoft is offering to Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Architect customers a corresponding upgrade to a Visual Studio .NET 2003 product for only $29 USD. This offer is open until September 30, 2003 and is indeed one of the first signs of yesterday's news that Microsoft is cutting down the prices like crazy in order to beat the rising competition. The original price for the PRO upgrade was about $480 USD (Enterprise and Architect upgrade versions were even pricier).

GCC 3.3 Released; Squeak 3.5 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-14 General Development 18 Comments

The team released the new major version of their multi-platform compiler suite, GCC 3.3.
Update: In other development news, Squeak 3.5, an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, is released.

Visual Studio .Net Makes Compelling Gains

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-14 General Development 24 Comments

The most powerful synergy in Microsoft Corp.'s technology portfolio is between its powerful platform services and its reasonably priced, highly capable tools. Wooing developers with seductive ease of use, Microsoft's tools then pave a path of least resistance toward the adoption of each new wave of Windows features. Read the review of Visual Studio.NET at eWeek.

Borland Unveils .NET Tools, JBuilder 9

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-13 General Development 20 Comments

Borland Software last week unveiled the latest update of its flagship Java IDE, JBuilder 9, and disclosed plans for an upcoming line of development tools for the .NET Framework. Version 9 of Borland's venerable JBuilder development environment adds Web services support enhancements and a new integrated solution for developing mobile and wireless applications to run on many devices.

Use Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect Via Remote Display

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-08 General Development 8 Comments

Complete the sign-up form to experience Visual Studio .NET 2003 running on Windows Server 2003 in a completely hosted environment. No complex setup or installation needed. You will receive a three-hour trial to: Test drive and take a guided tour of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect. Take a look at the new Windows Server 2003. Access 100+ code samples and other resources to quickly evaluate Visual Studio .NET.

Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses – Part 2

Guest post by Jared White 2003-05-07 General Development 24 Comments

Welcome back to Part 2 of Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses! I received a lot of great feedback on my previous article, and I'm looking forward to sharing with you once again what I've learned about Cocoa and the Objective-C language. If you missed Part 1 of this tutorial, read it here.

Programming Languages: The Early Years

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-06 General Development 16 Comments

Only after learning what is under the hood can your programming skills blossom; so, look at how computers first worked and how they have evolved through the years. Read the article at InformIT.

Server Clinic: Put Virtual Filesystems to Work

Submitted by Frank 2003-05-02 General Development 1 Comment

This article over at IBM, provides information VFS. A virtual filesystem (VFS) is an abstraction with surprisingly productive uses.

C# Design Patterns: The Flyweight Pattern

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-29 General Development No Comments

Avoid the overhead of large numbers of very similar classes with the Flyweight pattern. Learn how to recognize instances that are fundamentally the same except for a few parameters, move those variables outside the class instance, and pass them in as part of a method call. There is more development articles for C, C++, Java etc to read, here.

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Review

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 General Development 14 Comments

ActiveWin features a review of Visual Studio .NET 2003 development suite. They cover feature-set, usage, installation, pricing and what's still missing.

Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses – Part 1

Guest post by Jared White 2003-04-24 General Development 56 Comments

There are two major varieties of Cocoa available. The first variety, possibly the more well known of the two, is the kind that you can use to make a nice warm cup of chocolate milk. While tasty, it's hardly proper subject matter for an operating systems information site. The second variety is far more on-topic: a programming environment for Apple Mac OS X that is the modern evolution of of the original NeXTSTEP frameworks. That's what I'm here to talk about today.

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