General Development Archive

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.

GCC 3.2.3 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-24 General Development 11 Comments

GCC 3.2.3 is a bug fix release only; there are no new features that were not present in 3.2.2. Changelog.

Secure Programming Techniques

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-23 General Development 2 Comments

In this first installment in a series of excerpts from 'Practical Unix & Internet Security', 3rd Edition, you'll find tips and general design principles to code by that will help you avoid security-related bugs.

C/C++ Development with the Eclipse IDE

Submitted by Shellie 2003-04-23 General Development 18 Comments

Get an overview of how to use the Eclipse Platform in your C/C++ development projects. Though Eclipse is mainly a Java development environment, its architecture ensures support for other programming languages. In this article, you'll learn how to use the C/C++ Development Toolkit (CDT), which is the best C/C++ toolkit available for Eclipse.

Learn about the Conquest File System

Submitted by teller 2003-04-21 General Development 4 Comments

Conquest is a new filesystem which uses memory to store all metadata, small files (currently based on a size threshold), executables, and shared libraries, leaving only the content of large files on disk.

Smart Pointers and Exception Handling in C++

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-21 General Development 11 Comments

Andrei Alexandrescu discusses smart pointers, from their simplest aspects to their most complex ones and from the most obvious errors in implementing them to the subtlest ones -- some of which also happen to be the most gruesome. Also, learn how to throw an exception, how to associate handlers, or catch clauses, with a set of program statements using a try block, and how exceptions are handled by catch clauses, exception specifications, and design considerations for programs that use exceptions.

Time for a New Installation Paradigm, Part 2

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-20 General Development 43 Comments

LinuxWorld takes a closer look at the technological considerations behind one of the biggest issues for software-installation: shared libraries. A similar interesting article, a guide to how and why to make incompatible versions of libraries and development tools install in parallel, can be found here.

C# is just Java? Only a Little Worse

Submitted by Deniz Kaan Çopur 2003-04-19 General Development 85 Comments

"C# and Java are both nice languages. They reach similar goals through similar means, although C# adds some syntactical touches to Java, such as the foreach keyword and a more pleasant extends/implements construct. Unfortunately, the improvements are outweighed by the instances of regression. In this article, I'll compare the languages, while trying to avoid dipping to the JVM and CLR level." Read the article at Builder.com. Update: A similar comparison article, about security.