Community News: Xinc - Continuous Integration
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The Xinc (Xinc Is Not CruiseControl) group has released an announcement about reaching the beta mark in the development live of thier tool, Xinc.    Xinc is an open source PHP 5 continuous integration tool designed to integrate with Subversion, Phing and PHPUnit.    There is a growing awareness of continuous integration in the PHP world and we feel that to have to rely on Java to provide this functionality (i.e. CruiseControl) sucks big time.  So we are building the PHP 5 alternative.    Their system seems clean and lets you not only set up the push via a running background process but can pull it from Subversion and run any unit tests (via PHPUnit) you might have before pushing the project out.
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Dave Dash's Blog: nginx and symfonyZend Developer Zone: The ZendCon Sessions Episode 6: Project Management Methods to Maintain IT StandSitePoint PHP Blog: Tokenization using regular expression sub patternsIT Jobs Watch: Results for PHP Developers in LondonJob Posting: Digital River Seeks PHP Developer (Eden Prairie, MN)Dan Scott's Blog: Oooh...looks like I've got (even more) work cut out for meLeon Chevalier's Blog: Improve website load time by 500% with 3 lines of codePHPWomen.org: elePHPantsPhil Thompson's Blog: 7 PHP functions that saved my lifeStuart Herbert's Blog: Using suphp To Secure A Shared Server
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30/08/04 - Flash - Taipei (Taiwan) - Via ha contribuito allo sviluppo del player open source Xine con il rilascio di VeXP 3.0 (VIA enhanced Xine Player 3.0), una soluzione in grado di supportare l&#39;accelerazione video MPEG-4 e MPEG-2 in hardware su
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In a new post to her Oracle blog today, Alison Holloway shares the presentation she gave at this year's Melbourne Opensource Developers' Conference titled "Working with PHP and Oracle".   I don't think the organizers are going to post the presentations, so I wanted to make it available here.   The talk covers things like the free Oracle tools available, the OCI8 extension, connection management, improving performance, and some Oracle resources. You can grab the PDF download here.
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The CImg Library provides a set of C++ classes that can be used in your sources, to load/save, process, display images. Portable (Unix/X11,Windows, MacOS X,..), efficient, simple to use, it's a pleasant toolkit for coding image processing stuffs in C++.   The CImg 1.2.4 package have been released. This is a minor release but with interesting stuffs anyway.  *----------------------------- *----------------------------- * Changes from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 *----------------------------- *-----------------------------  * New features : - Added macro 'cimg_for_lineXY(x,y,x0,y0,x1,y1)' that loops over an image segment (x0,y0)-(x1,y1). - Added function 'CImg::draw_polygon()' that draws a filled polygon of any shape in the instance image. - Added macros 'cimg_load_plugin', 'cimg_save_plugin', 'cimglist_load_plugin' and 'cimglist_save_plugin' allowing to easily add file support for your own data format. - Added plugin 'plugins/add_fileformat.h' to show how to use these new macros to register a new image format in CImg. - Added version of 'CImg[List]::{load,save}_cimg()' that is able to read/write only sub-images of data stored in a (big) .cimg file. - Added an online chat on the CImg website, so that users can interact freely.  * Optimizations / Modifications : - Added functions 'CImg[List]::save_empty_cimg()' that can be used to work with very large images. You can now create first an empty (big) image, then load/save sub-images into this big .cimg file, without needing much memory. - Slightly modified the header of .cimg files, so little/big endian info is stored. - Reorganized some 'CImg[List]::load_*()' functions, trying to avoid unnecessary memory usage. - Recoded versions of CImg::draw_triangle() that now use the Bresenham's algorithm for interpolation (more precise, while using only integer calculus). - Added versions of 'CImg::draw_triangle()' and 'CImg::draw_line()' that are able to map textures while correctly handling the perspective correction, so that 3D mapped triangles look correct now.  * Bug corrections : - Corrected a small bug in get_coordinates() : channels of hyperspectral images with (dim>3) where subsampled instead of cropped for image visualization. - And many small bug corrections...
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Rob Richards mentioned in a previous book review about some of the issues he was having getting the Oracle extension enabled on his Fedora 8 system. Well, he's come back after doing some more testing/compiling and has found some resolution to his issues.   I really didn't need to get it running, but the sheer fact that I tried it and it wouldn't work, pissed me off enough to spend some time getting it resolved. Hopefully this helps anyone else having the same problem. I am currently using instant client 11.1, but I did try the 10.2 version with the same results.   He steps through the process he followed - tracking down the missing libaio files, correcting an issue with SELinux loading the Oracle libraries and his realization: he just needed to allow text relocation. Included in the post are the command line calls that'd need to be made to make it all happen.
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Feature Consolidation runs and runs
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This is release 0.3.0 of ReactOS, an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).   This release holds a few records - it is the most long-awaited release of ReactOS, it is the release which was preceded by 3 Release Candidates instead of usual 2, and at last ReactOS release never had so much changes since the last one.  This release's main feature is the networking ability - it's the first release where it is possible to download and install FireFox and browse the web, get mIRC (or some other irc client) and get to #reactos to chat a bit with developers. Or install command-line Samba-TNG client via the built-in package manager and use it to share files with Windows, Linux and MacOS X (all of them support SMB protocol)  But there are a bunch of changes beneath the "networking" feature: The kernel, drivers, applications, control panel applets, Win32 subsystem, boot loader, etc, etc was changed, improved, bugfixed and hackremoved. For the detailed overview it's advised to read the Changelog.  The compatibility with applications and drivers is also improved. In order to keep track of progress, the reactos.org website now features a ReactOS Compatibility Database. It allows to quickly look up the driver's version or some software which has been tested on various ReactOS releases and see how good it performs.  Thanks a lot to our core developers who are doing a fantastic job and to those people who submit patches for various small and big things - it really helps a lot, even if it is a formatting change!  Aleksey Bragin, ReactOS Project Coordinator http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/
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VMukti is an open source innovative multi-point unified extensible collaborative conferencing communication system, with built-in support for access to platform features through Personalized, Mash-able RIA web-interface, Light widget for 3rd party sites, Desktops, PSTN, Mobile and IP phones developed in .NET 3.5 technology.   Its core features include online Video conferencing, Audio conferencing, Chat, File search, Whiteboard, File-sharing, Presentation, Remote monitoring/controlling/sharing, CRM and reports, all at use very low Bandwidth /CPU/Memory usage.  A lot of bugs and issues now have been resolved in the new 1.0.3.0 release and is one of the most stable alpha versions of VMukti. This release contains mostly bug fixes and windows service based server interface. Now VMukti supports most of its core features.   We would like to give a big thanks to all those reported bugs and sent us bugs attachments.  More info: http://www.vmukti.com/index.php  Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162339
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The eagerly-awaited Ubuntu Studio has been released, adding another entry into the expanding list of multimedia-optimized Linux distributions. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but interested readers can peruse some installation screenshots or check out the latest news and information on the Ubuntu Studio Wiki. I plan to review the distro in a future column, along with an update on the latest version of the venerable PlanetCCRMA, but in this entry I'm focused on another very exciting new release. Ardour 2.0 is now available for download. This version is a significant improvement over the 0.99 series (1.0 was never released), with many new features and enhancements to performance and stability. The following article profiles the new Ardour as I employed it for three projects, all involving the program in the processes of composition and arranging as well as the more typical tasks of recording and editing. I've described each project in some detail, and each description includes a link to the final audio output.
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I think I've mentioned this before but on Saturday Feb 12th I'll be talking  about the Jakarta FeedParser at CodeCon  in San Francisco.  I published an outline  of the talk on the FeedParser wiki.  I'm hoping to have a 0.5 release done before then and havepotentially another suprise in the works.
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Mike Potter (from Adobe) has issued an invitation for all PHP and Ruby developers attending the MAX Conference to track each other down, as well as him.   I think this would be a perfect time for these groups of people to get together, showcase what you're working on, and talk about the problems that you're facing.  We're working out the details of MAXUP, but if you're going to MAX, plan on arriving on the Sunday so that on Monday we can get together and showcase and talk about the work that's going on with Flex and languages other than Java and ColdFusion.   He suggests using the entry's comments to help coordinate the meetings. The Early Bird pricing is still in effect for the conference, so there's no time like the present to reserve your spot.
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The CCP1GUI project aims to develop a free, extensible Graphical User Interface to various computational chemistry codes developed by the worldwide academic community, with an emphasis on ab initio Quantum Chemistry codes.   We have just released version 0.7.1 of the CCP1GUI.  This is the first release to include completely self-contained packages for Windows and Mac OSX, which we hope will make using the CCP1GUI much easier!  This release also includes support for drawing "streamarrows" for visualising vector fields and an update to the CCP1GUI's AM1 optimiser.
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Three months ago I introduced my readers to a new system for hosting VST plugins compiled natively for Linux. That system has continued its development and has become a mainstay in the Studio Dave Linux audio arsenal. Here's an update on the system's recent incarnations, complete with the usual multimedia extravaganza of text, screenshots, and sounds.
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Christian Stocker has an update on his blog today that Windows users will be happy to hear:   Frank Kromann applied some patches yesterday to the PECL sources of the uploadprogress extension to make it compile under Windows (almost the same as by SteveH provided in a comment of my post yesterday). Therefore, thanks to the pecl4win site, a compiled dll is now already available. Get it here (untested by me..)   He also mentions some documentation that was asked about concerning the package (and the patches), but notes that he "can't promise anything any time soon".
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In a follow-up to a previous blog post, Alexey Zakhlestin shares a few more thoughts on the project and the proper object hierarchy's going for.   actually, I changed it completely 3 times already in my thoughts. I finally "see the light"(tm) and will implement it on a weekend. I think about converting SCGI-part to a simple "driver" and move all http-related stuff to a separate driver-agnostic set of classes. This way, I would be able to implement FastCGI as anther driver without altering applications. If you have any better ideas - let me know.   He also includes a link to another sample application that uses the functionality to create a pie chart (including some benchmarks) with the help of the eZ components framework.