Apple this week is believed to have tapped its vast developer community to begin testing Mac OS X 10.5.7, a sizable maintenance and security update to the company’s Leopard operating system with a particular focus on syncing improvements.
svonkie writes “Despite launching on the T-Mobile G1 with little mainstream fanfare, Google Inc.’s Android OS appears to have gained strong interest in the open source development community. According to a survey of Black Duck Software’s Knowledge Base, Apple Inc.’s iPhone led the industry with 266 open source project releases during 2008, while Android followed in second place with 191 releases. Black Duck compiled the data after scouring through over 185,000 of open source projects across 4,000 Internet sites.”
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dazedNconfuzed writes “Whatever happened to the 19th IOCCC? The opening thereof was announced over two years ago and the winners’ names were posted, but the source code was never released — leaving the results of the 2006 contest unknown as we get well into 2009. Emails to questions@ioccc.org just bounce. Surely the quiet absence of a high point of geekdom becomes news at some point!”
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Some Web sites haven’t been updated, and many developers still don’t design their pages to modern standards and best practices. A recent report showed that the average page on the Web strays from World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) page markup specifications 47 times
Some Mozilla developers have recommended that the company consider yanking the new JavaScript engine, dubbed TraceMonkey, from Firefox 3.1 to get the browser back on track and out the door. Their comments came as Mozilla’s head of engineering acknowledged that the browser’s final delivery date will slip.
In what can only be called “totally frakking awesome”, someone installed Microsoft Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95. By using DOSBox, Polish developer Marcin-PRV was able to install the ageing operating system on the Symbian-powered smartphone, allowing both operating systems to run side-by-side.
nerdyH sends us to LinuxDevices for a description of a tiny Linux device called the Marvell SheevaPlug. “A 0 Linux wall wart could do to servers what netbooks did to notebooks. With the Marvell SheevaPlug, you get a completely open (hardware and software) Linux server resembling a typical wall-wart power adapter, but running Linux on a 1.2GHz CPU, with 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of Flash. I/O includes USB 2.0, gigabit Ethernet, while expansion is provided via an SDIO slot. The power draw is a nightlight-like 5 Watts. Marvell says it plans to give Linux developers everything they need to deliver ‘disruptive’ services on the device.” The article links four products built on the SheevaPlug, none of them shipping quite yet. The development kit is available from Marvell.
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Team Ico honcho, Suda 51 speaking at GDC
GameSpot By TomM_GScom However, those won't be the only Japanese game makers speaking at the event, which takes place March 23-27 in San Francisco. GDC 2009 Reveals New Ueda, Nintendo DSi Talks Gamasutra Ico mastermind to speak at GDC Ars Technica Escapist Magazine – Kotaku Australia – Play.tm – Kotaku Australia all 11 news articles Langue : Français |
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