Development

Track eBay bids with JBidwatcher

The JBidWatcher project is:

The project has been around since 2002, the project news shows an interesting history that involves tracking breakages caused by frequent eBay site changes.

The feature list includes:

• General design for future compatibility with sites other than eBay.
• Multisniping support cancels other bids after one bid has been won.
• Designed and developed in a cross-platform environment.
• Support for launching a web browser directly to an item that is being bid on.
• A built-in search mechanism.
• Support for user-customizable tabs.
• Support for multiple languages and currencies.

Newly added features include:

• User customizable column displays.
• A Buy It Now feature for purchasing at a fixed price.
• The ability to subtract shipping prices from snipe purchases.
• An RSS feed for watching bids.

The screenshots show the user interface of an older version of JBidWatcher.

Version 0.9.7 of JBidWatcher was released this week. "This version is a major overhaul, with several major new features and dozens of bugfixes. The top four features are Customizable Columns, Buy It Now support, automatically Subtract Shipping from Snipes, and RSS Feeds." See the changelog file for more information on this release.

JBidWatcher has been released under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The software is available for download here.

If you are a frequent eBay auction bidder, JBidWatcher is a handy tool that can give you an advantage over other bidders. All that you need to worry about is where to store all of that new stuff you just bought.

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System Applications

Database Software

HSQLDB 1.8.0 released (SourceForge)

Version 1.8.0 of HSQLDB, an SQL database engine that is written in Java, has been announced. "HSQLDB is a relational database engine written in Java, with a JDBC driver, supporting a large subset of ANSI-92 SQL. A small, fast engine with both in memory and disk based tables. This product is the continuation of HypersonicSQL."

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Interoperability

Samba3 Compendium Released

A new Samba documentation collection has been released. "For those who want a more searchable Samba book, the Samba Compendium may be of interest. This electronic-only book is made up of all current samba documentation, logically arranged to suit the electronic medium."

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Mail Software

bogofilter 0.95.2 released

Version 0.95.2 of bogofilter, a Bayesian mail filter, is out. "This release includes unicode support. When creating a new wordlist, the UTF-8 character set will be used. For compatibility, bogofilter will not use unicode when operating with old wordlists. Additionally, wordlist locking has been changed. One lock is now used for the whole database rather than one lock per page."

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Eridani releases MailStripper V1.3.2

Eridani Star System has announced the release of MailStripper version 1.3.2, an SMTP spam filter. A long-standing stream freeze and timeout bug has been fixed.

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Printing

Chap 4 Of New CUPS Manual

Chapter 4 of the CUPS printing system manual is online: "This chapter describes how to save printer options for your printer and set your default printer."

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VPN Software

SSL-Explorer 0.1.12 released (SourceForge)

Version 0.1.12 of SSL-Explorer, an open-source SSL VPN solution, is out. "Release 0.1.12 of SSL-Explorer contains several new features mainly concerning authentication methods. A new 'security questions' module has been introduced that may be prompted in addition to regular password entry. Authentication schemes may also now be defined that allow the administrator to configure authentication policies to suit their environment. This allows the user to select from a range of defined authentication schemes when logging in. A number of usability enhancements have also been introduced; the most notable of which being the dynamic popup menu. Lastly, the VPN client may now be started from any page in SSL-Explorer."

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Web Site Development

Analog is 10, Nathan is 0

Stephen Turner has announced the 10th year anniversary of Analog, a web server logfile analysis package. "Today is analog's 10th birthday! On 29th June 1995, I wrote a message to the comp.sources.testers newsgroup asking for people to test a new logfile analyser I had started writing".

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Nvu 1.0 Released (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine covers the release of version 1.0 of the Nvu web authoring system. "I am immensely happy to report that Nvu 1.0 went live an hour ago. As usual, it's available from the official site (www.nvu.com) or the official mirror (nvu.viapanda.com/1.0/changelog) for Windows, Mac, Linspire5, FC3, Linux 2.6.10, and for the first time Mandriva. Nvu broke the 500,000 users limit with version 1.0PR, and we expect even better results for this 1.0."

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Desktop Applications

Audio Applications

Snd-ls V0.9.4.3, Mammut V0.20, Ceres V0.43 and more

A multiple announcement for the audio applications Snd-ls V0.9.4.3, Mammut V0.20, Ceres V0.43 and the Snd RT-extension documentation has been sent out.

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Desktop Environments

GNOME Software Announcements

The following new GNOME software has been announced this week:

• Epiphany 1.6.4 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Epiphany Extensions 1.6.4 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)
• Evolution 2.3.4 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Eye of GNOME 2.11.0 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)
• GDM2 2.8.0.1 (stable bug fix release)
• GLib 2.7.1 (unstable development release)
• gnome-applets 2.11.1 (new features and translation work)
• GNOME Nettool 1.3.0 (bug fixes and translation work)
• gnome-panel 2.11.4 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Gnome System Tools 1.3.0 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)
• Gnome System Tools 1.3.0.1 (bug fixes)
• System tools backends 1.3.0 (new features and translation work)
• GNOME War Pad 0.4.0 (new features and bug fixes)
• GSwitchit Plugins 0.4 (stable release)
• GTK+ 2.7.1 (unstable development release)
• Gtk2Hs 0.9.8 (new features and bug fixes)
• MlView 0.8 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)
• Zenity 2.10.1 (translation work)
• Zenity 2.11.0 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)

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libnotify in GNOME Applets (GnomeDesktop)

Rodrigo Moya is experimenting with libnotify in various GNOME applets. "While Rodrigo has already scrapped the trash notification, there are many places where this could be a nice enhancement in the GNOME Desktop. What do you think? What types of actions would you use/not use notifications?"

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Nautilus Enhancements (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop covers the latest enhancements to the Nautilus file manager. "Some new enhancements are finding their way into Nautilus. The first is new tree functionality complete with auto-expand for dnd to the spatial Nautilus list view, much like what is seen here on a Mac. Nautilus now has the ability to create a new file when dragging and dropping text into a Nautilus window."

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KDE Software Announcements

The following new KDE software has been announced this week:

• kdesvn-build 0.97 (new features, bug fixes and documentation work)

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KDE Commit Digest (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the July 1, 2005 edition of the KDE Commit Digest. Here's the content summary: "Kopete supports MSN http protocol. amaroK adds support for media:/ urls. Speedups in Krita and aKregator. Work continues on Quanta plugin for KDevelop."

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Electronics

Electric 8.02 released

Version 8.02 of Electric, a VLSI CAD design system, has been announced. "This is a complete translation of Electric from C to Java, and also includes some new features."

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XCircuit 3.3.19 released

Version 3.3.19 of XCircuit, an electronic schematic drawing package, is out. Changes include improvements to the undo mechanism and other fixes.

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Games

Cyphesis 0.3.12 Released

Version 0.3.12 of Cyphesis, a server for WorldForge games, has been released. New features include drawing of paths and roads, a new river, growing trees from seeds, a graveyard, bug fixes and more.

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Imaging Applications

GIMP development snapshot (2.3.2) (GnomeDesktop)

Development snapshot 2.3.2 of the GIMP has been announced. "The most notable change in this release is the start of a massive menu reorganization. Your feedback on this effort is much appreciated. Please add your suggestions on how to proceed with this."

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Instant Messaging

Laffer 0.3.2.7 released (SourceForge)

Version 0.3.2.7 of Laffer, a cross-platform web-based instant messenger client, is out. "Changes are: The initial protocol for the communication between the IM proxy server and the client was changed. There is new "docs" directory where the documentation will be stored."

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Medical Applications

OpenVistA SemiVivA FOIA Gold 20050507 available (LinuxMedNews)

OpenVistA SemiVivA FOIA Gold 20050507, a medical health record system, has been announced. "It combines the FOIA release from the VA's FTP site with GT.M V5.0-000."

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Music Applications

wcnt 1.2 released

Version 1.2 of wcnt, a not-real-time modular audio synth, sequencer, and sampler, is out with numerous changes.

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Office Suites

OpenOffice.org Newsletter

The June, 2005 edition of the OpenOffice.org Newsletter is online with the latest OO.o office suite news.

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extendedPDF 1.3 beta released

Version 1.3 beta of extendedPDF has been announced. "'extendedPDF' is an OpenOffice.org macro that converts an OpenOffice document into a PDF document. The output includes the original document's headings as PDF bookmarks, and includes the original hyperlinks as PDF hyperlinks. Document meta-information (such as title, author, and keywords) is also added."

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RSS Software

Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser (O'ReillyNet)

Ben Hammersley customizes RSS feeds for display in a web browser. "As more and more non-techie websites offer syndication feeds, a growing number of non-technical readers are clicking on the links and filling their screens with confusing XML. But syndication content doesn't have to look like geeky markup or malformed text in your readers' browsers. You can make it look quite pretty, and give clues to what the feed is actually for."

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Science

Ghemical 1.90 Released

Development version 1.90 of Ghemical, a molecular modeling package, is available.

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Video Applications

VLC media player 0.8.2 released (SourceForge)

Version 0.8.2 of VLC media player is available. "VLC 0.8.2 has been released and has support for Dirac encoding and decoding. Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (180x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced. It uses wavelets, motion compensation and arithmetic coding and aims to be competitive with other state of the art codecs."

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Web Browsers

SeaMonkey Project Continues Internet Suite (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine covers progress in the SeaMonkey project. "Robert Kaiser Writes: "On behalf of the SeaMonkey Council, I'm happy to announce the formation of a group to continue new development of the Mozilla Application Suite code under its new name: SeaMonkey." "See the official announcement for more details about the new SeaMonkey project and it's relation to Mozilla." "We'll be offering our first developer release, SeaMonkey 1.0 alpha, shortly.""

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Rewrite of Bookmarks Code Planned (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine covers an effort to rewrite the Firefox bookmark code. "Vladimir Vukicevic has announced that he plans to completely rewrite the bookmarks code used by Mozilla Firefox. The revamped bookmarks system should be simpler, more flexible and allow bookmarks to be used in new ways. Vlad explains, "The first order of business is to come up with a list of things that we'd like to be able to do with bookmarks, and then to create a data API that can support all these things in a fairly generic fashion.""

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Languages and Tools

Caml

Caml Weekly News

The July 5, 2005 edition of the Caml Weekly News is online with the latest Caml language developments.

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Java

GNU Classpath 0.16 released

Version 0.16 of GNU Classpath, a set of essential libraries for Java, is available. "This is the first release of GNU Classpath since our Harmony collaboration with the Apache group." Numerous improvements are included.

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Hermes 1.9.1 Released (SourceForge)

Version 1.9.1 of Hermes has been announced. "Hermes, a GUI for working with JMS, has a new release. You can browse queues and subscribe to topics, copy messages around between providers, the clipboard and the filesystem. Hermes includes a simple plugin framework so non-JMS functionality can be exposed in the GUI. This lets you monitor queue depths, get statistics from the provider and search for administered queues and topics."

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Lisp

SBCL 0.9.2 released

Version 0.9.2 of Steel Bank Common Lisp has been released. "This version supports the EUC-JP external format, provides better management of symlinks, a larger dynamic space size on the PPC architecture, improved threading, and more."

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Perl

This Week in Perl 6 (O'Reilly)

The June 21-28, 2005 edition of This Week in Perl 6 is online with the latest Perl 6 development news.

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PHP

PEAR XML_RPC Vulnerability and PHP 4.4.0RC2 release

PHP Version 4.4.0 RC2 has been released with a security fix. "An easily exploitable security issue was discovered in PEAR XML_RPC <= 1.3.0. We recommend that users of this PEAR class immediately upgrade to the latest version with: pear upgrade XML_RPC The same security problem exists in many other XML RPC implementations, please check if the installed applications that you use might have a similar problem. The new PEAR XML_RPC package is also bundled with the second release candidation of PHP 4.4.0RC2. Besides this new PEAR package there are two minor issues fixed since PHP 4.4.0RC1."

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Python

python-dev Summary

The June 1-15, 2005 edition of the Python-dev Summary is online with coverage of the Python-dev mailing list.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The July 5, 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is online with the latest Python development articles.

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pyc 0.6 released

Version 0.6 of pyc, a utility for compiling Python applications into bytecode, is available. See the Change Log for more information.

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Tcl/Tk

Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The July 4, 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is available with the latest Tcl/Tk news and resources.

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Debuggers

An introduction to Delta Debugging (NewsForge)

NewsForge examines the Delta Debugging technique. "Every developer knows that debugging -- the process of finding and fixing defects in program code -- is an important process. Often, the effort devoted to it outweighs the cost of all the other software development phases. Debugging is unpredictable, since a single bug can hold clueless developers hostage for long time. And unfortunately, debugging has always been a mostly manual affair -- but that's about to change, with the advent of Delta Debugging."

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