“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 that over 3200 performance routine optimizations are now part of the library. The AMD effort is intended to be open and not exclude other chip vendors like Intel, though Intel has its own open source effort for driving optimizations…”

Source: Linux Today

Technorati Tags: AMD, Open Source, Framewave

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 third-party software components. The new software addresses the complexities involved with mixing internally developed code with code from open source communities, partners, vendors, outsourcers and other third parties.

Now this is a great idea and one that will save a lot of folks time and money in the long run, Baldy

 

Black Duck Offers Developers a New Tool to Manage Code

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++: Digital Mars D, a practical programming language first released exactly one year ago that helps you get the job done quickly.

Okay if it works fine,Baldy

 

New D language pumps up programmer productivity

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 using 3-D models, called Alice.

Learn OOP while creating 3-D animations with Alice

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 computers operating with just the Mac OS and Adobe Photoshop installed, and practically nothing else to speak of, are long gone, and Apple knows this as well as anyone. This operating system was not properly beta tested, and Apple’s customers are paying for it, with lost productivity and inoperative computers.

Source: Tom’s Guide

~LC

Technorati Tags: Mac, Leopard

Software programs are often made to run on systems that are completely different from the system in which the program is coded or developed. This process of adapting software across systems is known as porting. This article shows you how to port your software from one environment to another.

Jeeesh I have been working on one project for the last week, now I get the short cuts, Baldy

Technorati tags: Programming

Porting C/C++ sources from Windows to UNIX

What’s a poor, lonely Linux developer to do? Where are all the good support sites? How am I going to fix that troublesome bug? These are questions that even novice code writers no longer have to ask. The classic view of a lonely, isolated programmer writing code for some obscure open source project in a back room is no longer an accurate view of the work environment in which Linux developers toil. Open source programs have become so mainstream that the boundaries are blurring between proprietary, commercial and public domain software.

Great Linux Sites for Developers

Well, that was true, (for about 36 hours) but it didn’t last long!

I wasn’t surprised to see a “fix” for Apples attempt to put an end to the Linux, IPod friendship.

Sunday, September 16. 2007
iPod Classic Will Be Supported

As recently reported on Slashdot, Apple, in its infinite wisdom, has added a checksum to the iPod database apparently to restrict non-iTunes products (like Amarok via libgpod) from having the ability to add music. To me this sounds pretty familiar. This is the same thing they did to iTunes 4.5 to make it harder for other apps to read off their DAAP shares, they changed it again in iTunes 7; open source apps are still unable to read iTunes 7 DAAP shares.

Source: Amarok.Kde.Org

~LC

Technorati Tags: Apple, IPod, Linux, Amarok, ITunes

The continuing rise in popularity of Linux applications has become a boon to job opportunities for software programmers. However, the working culture of the open source industry is different from that of proprietary software developers. Code writers looking for a job as Linux developers need a unique set of job skills and work ethics often not demanded by employers of traditional software developers. Even educational degrees take a back seat to hands-on experience with an open source community and a track record of communication ability and leadership.

So You Want to Be a Linux Developer, Part 2

Five years ago, the only engineering or computer science majors setting their sights on a career in writing software code for an open source company were the most hardcore of computer nerds. That was something done only by the true computer geeks, and it usually required an independent source of income. Experienced programmers knew the gravy train existed at proprietary companies, most of which avoided experimental operating systems that nobody in the business world would ever use. Today, the divergent families of the Linux operating system have changed the software development landscape.

So You Want to Be a Linux Developer, Part 1