One Smalltalk aspect still astonishing me after years of practicing is the joy it brings when it is time to track bugs.
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My experience in developing both a C++ and Smalltalk version of Dr. Geo showed me you got a huge boost in productivity, which of course brings directly happiness while writing code and tracking bugs.
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KDevelop 4.1 IDE brings Git integration, patch exporting, external scripts support, project fetching, integrated hex editor, PHP 5.3 support and more.
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New version of Qt, a cross-platform application and UI development framework, features QML, an advanced new declarative programming language, and significant performance improvements.
Read more »Over the last decade, free software developers have been repeatedly tempted by development tools that offer the ability to build free software more efficiently or powerfully.
Read more »Mono development is nearly non-existent over the past month or so
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New Versions of the KDE Development Platform, the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, and many applications are released today with the version number 4.5.0. The KDE team focused on the usability, performance and stability of many previously introduced new features and technologies. Below, find the 3 separate announcements for each of KDE's products: The Development Platform, the Applications Compilation and the Plasma Workspaces.
Read more »The OpenGL 4.1 specification has been defined by the OpenGL ARB (Architecture Review Board) working group at Khronos, and includes the GLSL 4.10 update to the OpenGL Shading language and is accompanied by a number of extensions introducing cutting-edge functionality to the OpenGL standard.
Read more »KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment), based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages. This is a bugfix only release and everyone is urged to upgrade as soon as possible.
Read more »Today, the handset baseline source code is available to the development community. This code is being actively developed as MeeGo 1.1, which is scheduled for release in October. The team has been preparing MeeGo Gitorious with all the sources and infrastructure to perform the weekly builds for MeeGo 1.1 development.
Read more »For a long time desktop widgets have been a way to provide useful, although usually simple, applications that sit on the desktop and out of the way. KDE has taken these desktop widgets to a whole new level with Plasma. In this tutorial we will look at how to get a simple Plasmoid created using Python.
Read more »Developers and programmers are always the earliest adopters of technology, paving the way for the rest of us. And nowhere is that more evident than with Linux. Over the last 10 years, developers have brought Linux in through the back door and sold its benefits up the corporate flagpole. And successfully so.
Read more »You can select from a set of application templates and use some simple quickly commands to create, edit code and GUI, and publish your software for others to use. Quickly's templates are easy to write. So if you are a fan of language foo, you can create a foo-project template. Or if you want to help people making plugins for your killer app, you can make a killer-app-plugin template.
Read more »Since the beginning, Qt C++ development framework has been a product that has collaborated with and embraced its developer community as much as possible. Nokia believes the time has come to take this model forward again and to empower the community even more by changing the way Qt is governed – by moving to an even more open governance model.
Read more »Web developers already have localStorage, which is used for client side storage of simple key-value pairs. This alone doesn’t address the needs of many web applications for structured storage and indexed data. Mozilla is working on a structured storage API with indexing support called IndexedDB, and we will have some test builds in the next few weeks.
Read more »GCC 4.5 promises faster programs using the new link-time optimization (LTO) option, easier implementation of compiler extensions thanks to the controversial plugin infrastructure, stricter standards-conformance for floating-point computations, and better debugging information when compiling with optimizations.
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