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More Than Five Top, Free Tools for Web Developers

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

More and more, open source projects are either integrating with the web or are developed entirely for on-demand use. This requires strong web development skills–or at least good enough tools to rescue you if any of your web development skills are weak. The good news is that there are many free open source tools to [...]

Programming Languages: Everyone Has a Favorite One

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

“DDJ: Which language has moved to the top of the heap, so to speak, in terms of popularity, and why do you think this is the case?
“PJ: If we take a look at the top 10 programming languages, not much has happened the last five years. Only Python entered the top [...]

In memoriam: free software projects of 2007

Friday, April 4th, 2008

 
Recently I looked in on the project Web site for a small application I use, only to find the wiki completely filled with spam. The project itself was clearly in disrepair, and the code abandoned for six months or more. I wondered: how many other apps that I use have halted development without my realizing [...]

It’s time to learn Scheme

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

 
Have you ever peeked into one of those bazillion .el files in your Emacs installation’s lisp folder and wondered what it meant? Or have you ever looked at a GIMP script .scm file and scratched your head over all the parentheses? Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in common use, and Scheme [...]

Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

The immense popularity of sites like YouTube has unexpectedly turned Flash Video (FLV) into one of the de facto standards for Internet video. The proliferation of sites using FLV has been a boon for remix culture, as creators made their own versions of posted videos. And thus far there has been no widespread DRM standard [...]

AMD Joins Open Source With Framewave

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

“Chip vendor AMD wants to help developers produce applications that are faster than ever before. To do that AMD has open sourced its AMD Performance Library (APL) as the Framewave open source project.
“AMD claims that it has been working on APL (now Framewave) for almost three years and [...]

Black Duck Offers Developers a New Tool to Manage Code

Monday, January 28th, 2008

 
Black Duck Software announced today the availability of Black Duck Code Center software to help manufacturers accelerate software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Code Center manages software component selection, project approval and license tracking designed to maximize benefits to organizations from their reuse of open source and other [...]

New D language pumps up programmer productivity

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

 
Is it possible to have the performance of C and C++ and the programmer productivity of modern programming languages such as Ruby and Python in a single language? That is the question Walter Bright, the author of the Zortech C++ compiler and the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler, asked himself when creating a successor to C++: [...]

Learn OOP while creating 3-D animations with Alice

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

 
College computer science students often find it difficult to get started in programming languages like C++ and Java, largely due to the disconnect between simple middle-school languages like logo and advanced object-oriented programming (OOP) languages. To help bridge the gap, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed an OOP language to create computer animations [...]

Update: More Leopard Problems Plague Apple

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

This is something I never thought I’d hear myself say - or maybe I should say, see myself type - about an Apple operating system: Mac OSX Leopard was released before it was ready. This operating system needed more testing on more systems with more hardware, and especially, more software configurations. The days of Apple [...]

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