Programming News - Year 2008
PDF now ISO standard
This has just been announced by the ISO committee. PDF is the standard
ISO
32000-1, which means that this is no longer a proprietary format but
now a true standard, a format which is open and that passes under the
control of ISO. The realization of software to create PDF files should
be facilitated. Quote: "This International Standard supplies the essential
information needed by developers of software that create PDF files."
Futures version of the format will be published by the ISO committee too.
Through this opening, the 3 version of Open Office will edit PDF files,
it should be available in September 2008.
July 3, 2008.
Diablo 3
The 3D diagonal game should come out this year, perhaps within two or three months. Some videos on Youtube ...
It would have been more interesting to have a team rather than one character at a time, and more complex interactions with the environment.Objective J
This
is the name of a language written in JavaScript designed to emulate the
language Objective C. A preprocessor converts Objective J to JavaScript,
and everything works on the client side. With this language, the authors
have created Capuccino, a framework that emulates Cocoa, the development
system from Apple. You can see a demo of its use named 280
slides. The demo allows you to create a Web page and save the layout
as a Powerpoint file. The authors plan to distribute Objective J and the
Capuccino framework to open source.
June 30, 2008.
Reddit now open source
Reddit is one of the largest digg-like. There are at least two CMS to
achieve this type of site, but the most complete, Pligg is very weak.
Also the announce of release as open source the code for a powerful functionnal
digg-like could really interested webmasters who wish to create a site
like this.
Reference.
June 18, 2008.
Google Gadgets now open source
The gadgets from Google for the desktop are now open source, and work
on Linux.
Référence Arstechnica.
6 June 2008.
Hypercard
The inventor of Hypercard, Bill Atkinson, which is now a photographer, has regrets. Hias system allowed to make applications by organizing cards with a language close to the natural language, Hypertalk. But if he had thought to link cards on different computers rather than on a single machine, it would have preceded the browser 10 years before his appearance. Source Wired.com.
PHP 6
PHP 6 est provided on some shared hostings. The last version of the language will ease the building of rich internet applications and web services but some features will be included into PHP 5.3 too. PHP6, differences with 4 and 5.
Mogo
Mogo and the UCT algorithm beat a human opponent at master level in the game of Go for the first time on March 22, 2008.
KDE 4.1
KDE 4.1 is available for Windows in an Alpha version, as well as for MacOS X, OpenSolaris and of course Linux. This superb 3D interface will be running the same software in all platforms and expand the public of Linux software. All programmers are invited to contribute even only by finding bugs.
More news...
Java completely open source. Sun announces that remaining restrictions on opening up the code will fall so that Java can be incorporated in all Linux distributions.
OS News article contest. Write an article and win gifts and merchandizes. The contest starts today April 18, 2008 and continues for 30 days.
Google Summer Code 2008. Departure of the coding period, students can participate in open source projects and to show off their talents, led by Google. See the timelines.
Plash is an open source implementation of Powershell, the programmable command-line tool for Windows that was inspired from Unix, even better. Cmdlets are handled. Plash runs on .Net and Mono under Linux. Mac and Solaris are targetted too.
Google Site is a new tool in Google Apps for creating collaborative websites - wikis - without any programming knowledge.
Adobe has just created its open source space to present its projects whose code is open. This site proposes for now the Flex SDK, a framework for achieving Flash applications.
Simcity is now under GPL license and the source code is available to download. The software has been renamed Micropolis for copyright reasons. You can now view how was written on of the most famous computer games ever.
The Android challenge has just started and will last until April 14, 2008. Java programmers who want to create an application for Google's platform can earn $ 25000 if selected.