Open Source News
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PHP runs upto 130% faster on Windows 2008
Published 12 years ago by Chris Alexander
But Microsoft admits it was slow before.
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Fedora 'cost' $10.8bn according to Linux Foundation
Published 12 years ago by Chris Alexander
Only 204,500,946 lines of code to write...
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OpenOffice more of a challenge than Google Docs
Published 12 years ago by Chris Alexander
Ballmer: You can’t even put a footnote in a document!
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Google Android source code released
Published 12 years ago by James Crowley
The day before the first phone hits the market
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New API for tapping into gigantic fashion database
Published 12 years ago by James Crowley
Extensive database of clothing and accessories from Sugar Inc
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Better visualisation of code evolution
Published 12 years ago by Mike James
Perforce has released a new version of its cross-platform graphical interface, the Perforce Visual Client, for its FAST Software Configuration Management (SCM) system.
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Linux-based change management tool
Published 12 years ago by Mike James
Embarcadero now has a Linux version of Change Manager that allows developers and database administrators to make database configuration comparisons from a Linux workstation.
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IDEs for Ruby on Rails
Published 13 years ago by Mike James
CodeGear's 3rdRail IDE contains productivity features aimed at making it easier and faster for both new and experienced Rails developers to build database-driven Web applications.
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Integrated flowcharting
Published 13 years ago by Mike James
Visustin v5 from Aivosto supports both automated and manual flowcharting, and reverse-engineers source code into flowcharts.
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Sybase WorkSpace 2.0
Published 13 years ago by Mike James
Built on the Eclipse open-source framework, the integrated design and development environment Sybase WorkSpace 2.0 combines enterprise modelling, database development, data federation, Web application development and services development and orchestration.
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Silverlight 1.0 release
Published 13 years ago by Mike James
Hard on the heels of the release of betas of Silverlight, we now have the finished version.
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Development framework for Java
Published 13 years ago by Mike James
Trolltech's Qt Jambi is a rich client development framework for Java, which expands the C++ based Qt framework to provide a similar range of facilities for Java developers.
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Managed DirectX becomes XNA
Published 14 years ago by Mike James
Recent releases in quick succession of Microsoft's DirectX graphics and multimedia library offer an improved .NET managed class library which allows .NET programmers to make use of DirectX without having to write “unsafe” code or import COM components.
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Enhanced Lifecycle with JBuilder 2005
Published 16 years ago by Mike James
The latest version of JBuilder features support for the new Java standards and better integration with Borland's ‘Application Lifecycle Management' (ALM) tools.
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Azure rumoured to get persistent VMs, not so certain to get Linux support
Published 9 years ago by Chris Alexander
Microsoft bows to business pressure and "leaks" news of persistent VMs
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Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot released
Published 9 years ago by Chris Alexander
Mandatory Unity UI and new kernel among features
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Canonical, Red Hat, Linux Foundation step in to prevent Secure Boot lockin
Published 9 years ago by Chris Alexander
Could Microsoft force Windows 8 OEMs to lock out Linux too?
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C++11 standard published
Published 9 years ago by Chris Alexander
No compilers expected until 2012
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Serious security issue in PHP 5.3.7 forces developers to advise against upgrade
Published 9 years ago by Chris Alexander
PHP's built-in crypto goes AWOL
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Chrome Beta gets Native C / C++ code support, Lion support
Published 9 years ago by Chris Alexander
Run C in a cross-platform browser or Chrome OS