Python slithers to 'significant' release
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Five-year milestone The open source community this week hailed the most significant update to Python in five years.â¦
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New software addresses a vulnerability that allowed previous versions to crash and execute arbitrary code.
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Pre-release builds offered for download via BitTorrent
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Latest PEAR Releases:PHP_CompatInfo 1.4.1HTML_Progress2 2.3.0RC1pearweb_phars 1.1.0pearweb 1.4.0Auth 1.5.0HTML_QuickForm_altselect 1.0.0RC1PEAR_PackageUpdate 0.6.1PHP_Beautifier 0.1.13pearweb 1.4.2Structures_LinkedList 0.1.2pearweb 1.5.0RC1Console_Getopt 1.2.2Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Flexy 0.1.0HTML_CSS 1.1.3Text_CAPTCHA 0.2.1PHP_CodeSniffer 0.4.0
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How far is too far when it comes to the freedom of software? Plus: Palm slipping, Windows sliding.
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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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Aspyr Media has posted an incremental update that squashes bugs, smooths play.
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Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to  multiple revisions.
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Demian Turner has posted about the latest version of the Seagull framework (0.6.3) and an update to correct a remote file disclosure issue (up to version 0.6.4).   Well it took a bit of time but after quite a few months a new release of Seagull is finally out, 0.6.3 (0.6.4). Things have been keeping pretty busy with the startup I'm working on, but it's been a great opportunity to refine some features of the framework and optimize the performance.  The early indications are good, after less than 10 weeks of going live Kindo users are creating up to 20k profiles/day and the server load is staying comfortably below 0.5.   The update is a different download that helps correct an issue with the framework allowing user-inputted values from the GET string. Be sure and update your version to keep this security issue under wraps.
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Linux looms large in software shifts in India. Plus: Version 3 of the GPL gets a long-awaited release.
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Blog: Software maker says it's ready with a near-final "release candidate" version, which will find its way on to servers later this year.
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New update for the Firefox browser could be pushed out soon.
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Michael Kimsal has posted some more thoughts on what he calls the "sad state of PHP development" pointing out some of the practices of the PHP group surrounding the development of the language.   Every few months there's a release, whether large or small, which introduces new features and bug fixes. However, with every release also comes fears of tiny, sometimes undocumented, changes that break existing code, and often for no solid reason other than someone with commit access decided they liked the 'new' way better than the old way.   He points out a specific example, get_object_vars and how its return values were changed in an earlier release as well as the update to glob made recently to change its return types.    In his opinion:   No changes should be made to the PHP core without an issue being opened, either in the 'bug' tracker or some other issues tracker.   Be sure to check out the comments for other great opinions on the topic.
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Blog: Programmers release an early but incomplete and crash-prone version of the open-source office suite for Mac OS X's native Aqua interface.
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In his latest post, Padraic Brady takes a look at PEAR in a verb form - both in how you can use it and what sorts of things it has in store.   over the last few months after finally getting over my ignorance of PEAR beyond it being a hodge podge of packages of dubious quality I've been questioning whether pearifying my future and past code is worthwhile. The answer is a resounding YES.   Unfortunately, there are some barriers for most people to get into the PEAR world (including the lack of the "coolest packages") with some of the perceived barriers including:   PEAR will require large scale changes to my shiny new cool code PEAR only allows proposals for complete functional code PEAR is elitist PEAR is fossilised   He also talks about PEAR packages and dispels one of the most popular myths about the package repository - "you can't use PEAR on a shared host".
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Jikes is a great compiler but they could really benefit from better project management.  This bug  has been open for greater than 3 years now with no resolution.  One of the developers sent me a *private* email (without commenting or closing the bug) this this could be fixed by avoiding the use of symlinks but wasn't sure. Of course this email was sent more than 2 years ago so I have no decent way of finding it.  Adding insult to injury is the fact that IBM won't let me comment on the bug without an account.  The only problem is that my account won't activate.  In a nutshell if you want to use incremental compile with jikes you need to specify relative paths not full paths.  For example if y ...
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Blog: Some developers must have too much time on their hands