"An overview of how Jabber technologies are being used to build all sorts of real-time applications."
Read more »
Interesting stories about Emacs and Lisp
http://tekkie.wordpress.com –
"I saw that lispy wrote about this. I happened to spot the original speech by Richard Stallman on reddit. The title intrigued me: “My Lisp Experiences and the Development of Emacs”. I’ll go through some pieces of it, because there are some interesting stories in here..."
Read more »- Login to post comments
Release bloodtooth 0.3.1
http://bloodtooth.wordpress.com –
Bloodtooth is an application for transfer files via bluetooth, using OpenOBEX and GTK libraries.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Eclipse Launches Ajax Programming Platform
http://www.linuxinsider.com –
IBM first brought Eclipse to the development scene in November 2001 as a project supported by a software vendor consortium. Three years later, Eclipse Foundation became an independent entity with a stewardship role. IBM nonetheless remains a key cheerleader for the community.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
PHP Access To An MSSQL Database From Debian Etch With ODBC And FreeTDS
http://www.howtoforge.com –
This assumes you already have Apache2 and PHP5 set up properly on your system. My efforts to get this connection working were compiled from information found at www.unixodbc.org and www.freetds.org. These steps worked for me with an Apache2 web server with php5 running on Debian Etch stable in October of 2007. The SQL server is running Microsoft SQL 2005 on a Windows 2003 Server OS.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Improved subpixel font rendering for Feisty Fawn
http://www.ubuntugeek.com –
FreeType developer David Turner posted some patches for Cairo and Xft that improved the rendering of fonts on LCD screens (but also CRTs with Trinitron layout).
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Mastering JavaScript — concept and resource guide
http://blog.reindel.com –
"There is not a single interpreted language used today that causes more excitement, confusion, disdain, and conflict than JavaScript. The language is so incredibly flexible that it is difficult to separate a developer’s choice of coding style from JavaScript best practices.
Read more »More New Rails Screencasts from RailsCasts.com
http://www.rubyinside.com –
"Ryan Bates is being a total champ in rolling out more and more consistently good Rails related screencasts for free at RailsCasts.com. Some of the latest include..."
Read more »- Login to post comments
Linux Kernel: just engineering without a vision?
http://antirez.com –
If you take a FreeBSD install with KDE, Openoffice, Firefox, ..., it's going to be a good desktop experience exactly like a similar Linux install: most of the progresses of "Linux" on desktop are not about the kernel, they are about what is running on top of it.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Learn F-Script in 20 Minutes
http://www.fscript.org –
F-Script is an open-source scripting layer dedicated to Cocoa. If you aren't using it yet, this is your chance to learn how it can improve your productivity as well as those of the users of your own Cocoa applications.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Trowser: A graphical less command that is more
http://www.linux.com –
Translating a command line tool to a graphical interface usually means a loss of functionality. However, in the case of the newly released trowser text browser, while I wouldn't swear that the transition has retained all the functionality of the less command that it is intended to replace, I doubt that anyone short of an expert is likely to notice the difference
Read more »
- Login to post comments
jQuery and XML
http://www.xml.com –
"Uche Ogbuji returns with a new Agile Web column to explain how to use jQuery to process XML in JavaScript web applications."
Read more »- Login to post comments
Eclipse Goes Online
http://zvikico.typepad.com –
"...Two new technologies, which has been recently introduced, suggest an online direction for Eclipse. While it's possible that none of them is adequate, this is a strong indication on the future of the platform. I don't think that the desktop version will fade away in the near future, from the same reason that desktop office applications are still with us.
Read more »Introduction to Cereal - the serial line management tool
http://www.debian-administration.org –
"Many people view serial ports as antiquated, out-dated connectors taking up space on their computers. However, serial ports still offer one of the best ways to communicate reliably and simply with a machine. For example, a serial port can be configured to act as a full-featured system console.
Read more »UniView 5.0.0b (a second update)
http://rishida.net –
"I found a little more time to work on UniView while flying to the US for the I18n & Unicode Conference yesterday, adding a bunch of additional useful features..."
http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/
Read more »- Login to post comments
