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| Application development with Vala |
| By David Adams, submitted by Pfeifer on 2008-07-05 05:03:41 |
| "Vala is, in some sense, a new programming language. It’s syntax and structure leans heavily towards C#. As Jurg Billeter, the mastermind behind Vala, likes to put it; Vala is an amalgam of different C inspired languages, mostly C++ and C#. An though there is no mercury in this mixture, you'll find many a gold nugget in Vala." |
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| Is The Web Still The Web? |
| By David Adams, submitted by snydeq on 2008-07-05 04:57:58 |
| Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the Web now that it no longer resembles Tim Berners-Lee's early vision: Is the Web still the Web if you can't navigate directly to specific content? If the content can't be indexed and searched? If you can't view source? In other words, McAllister writes, if today's RIAs no longer resemble the 'Web,' then should we be shoehorning them into the Web's infrastructure, or is the problem that the client platforms simply aren't evolving fast enough to meet our needs |
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| Nokia Buys Symbian: So What? |
| By Eugenia Loli-Queru on 2008-07-04 21:45:56 |
| "The mobile phone operating system world was rocked recently by the announcement that Nokia had acquired all of the shares of Symbian that it didn't already own, and that it planned to transition the OS to an open-source licensing model," says DeviceGuru. |
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| HowTo: Install KDE Programs in Windows |
| By David Adams, submitted by amjith on 2008-07-04 15:55:37 |
| The windows port for KDE allows users to install and run KDE applications in Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista . This tutorial will guide you step by step through installing KDE in Windows. |
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| Red Hat Linux Beats Microsoft Windows in Power Test |
| By special contributor Rahul on 2008-07-04 15:50:08 |
| No, not the kind of power you're probably thinking of. A recent independent test ranked Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5's power efficiency over Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on three different hardware platforms. RHEL averaged about 10% more power-efficient than Windows Server 2008 on the same hardware. LINK |
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| Firefox 3 Earns Guinness World Record |
| By David Adams, submitted by Merciades on 2008-07-04 15:48:22 |
| The Firefox project was rewarded on Wednesday when Guinness World Records accepted that the 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox on 'Download Day' in June constituted a world record. Firefox is now officially in the record books for receiving the most downloads from a Web site with a 24-hour period. |
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| 10 Changes Steve Ballmer Should Make at Microsoft |
| By David Adams, submitted by Caffeine Deprived on 2008-07-04 15:47:34 |
| This article by Shane Schick looks at changes Steve Ballmer should consider making at Microsoft now that Bill Gates is out the door. A couple of the most interesting: making user education a priority and establishing an open source project. |
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| The A-Z of Programming Languages: INTERCAL |
| By Eugenia Loli-Queru on 2008-07-04 05:57:04 |
| Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash, Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame, and to Charles H. Moore about the design and development of Forth. is interview, Computerworld ventures down a less serious path and chats to Don Woods about the development and uses of INTERCAL. |
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| Why OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Should Leave PowerPC in the Cold |
| By Eugenia Loli-Queru, submitted by Dan Warne on 2008-07-04 05:10:14 |
| An opinion article at APCMag: "The focus of Snow Leopard is on core upgrades, not shiny new features. A bedrock focused update that delivers a streamlined, enhanced OS X. Stability. Efficiency. A "new generation of core technologies." All this is about raising the floor on the entire system. Multi-core optimization, support for 16TB RAM (yes, Terabytes), and a language to allow developers to tap the power of the graphics processor are just a few of the key upgrades. But you can't lift the floor and let people walk around where the floor used to be all at the same time. Not without leaving holes for a potential rising damp problem further down the track." |
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| Mac OS X Marketshare Surges 32% in One Year |
| By David Adams, submitted by Caffeine Deprived on 2008-07-03 19:12:38 |
| Apple's OS market share increased by nearly 32% in the last year. Windows Vista and Linux also increased their shares by 8% and 18%, respectively, to end the month accounting for 16.14% and 0.88% of the online OS market. The full results from the survey can be found here. The results came as there is increasing speculation about the new version of OS X having a business focus. |
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