Development

Mozilla Developments

It has been a fairly busy week for Mozilla browser development news.

Mozilla 1.2 came out with a number of new features, here are some of the main additions:

• Type Ahead Find for speedy navigation within a page.
• The ability to show toolbars as text, icons, or both.
• Improvements to the native look and feel of the browser.
• The ability to launch the Browser with preloaded tabs.
• The addition of new accesskeys.
• Support for page prefetching.
• XML prettyprinting support.
• Mail "filter after the fact" capabilities.
• Mail support for copying text from message headers.
• Much More.

The Mozilla 1.2 release notes list the changes in more detail.

Some compatibility issues with dynamic HTML coding on some sites showed up under version 1.2. The Mozilla team quickly fixed the problem and released version 1.2.1.

The mozilla.org site said: "This is our latest stable release and users of all previous versions are encouraged to upgrade to this release for features, as well as performance, stability, and security fixes. It contains the fix for the DHTML bug that prompted us to pull Mozilla 1.2."

The Mozilla 1.2.1 release notes have the details for this release, most of it is a recap of the version 1.2 release notes, with the addition of the DHTML bug fix.

In addition to the new Mozilla releases, new versions of Galeon and Phoenix minimalist browsers are also out, both browsers are based on the Mozilla code. see below for more information.

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System Applications

Audio Projects

Ogg Traffic for December 1, 2002

The December 1, 2002 edition of Ogg Traffic is out with development news for the Ogg Vorbis audio compression package. Discussion topics include Bitrate Peeling and Cutting Vorbis Files.

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Database Software

MySQL 4.0.5(a) released

Version 4.0.5 (a) of the MySQL database is available. "This is a new beta development release, adding new features and fixing recently discovered bugs. This will be the last release labelled as "beta""

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PostgreSQL v7.3 Released

Version 7.3 of the PostgreSQL database has been announced. The list of changes includes:

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Class::DBI

Tony Bowden writes about the use of Perl's Class::DBI for interfacing to databases. "Several articles on Perl.com, including the recent Phrasebook Design Pattern, have discussed the problems faced when writing Perl code that interacts with a database. Terrence Brannon's DBIx::Recordset article attempted to show how code dealing with databases can be made simpler, and more maintainable. In this article, I will try to show how Class::DBI can make this easier still."

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Education

Linux in Education Report

Issue #84 of the Seul/Edu Linux in Education Report is avilable. Topics include an open-source software survey, the cost savings of open-source software in a K12 environment, the Passepartout desktop publishing application, recycled PCs, an Indian government effort for IT in the schools, a report from an OSS in education conference in the Ukraine, an assistave technology research project on Linux, and more.

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Electronics

Xcircuit development release 3.0 announced

Development version 3.0 of Xcircuit, an electronic schematic drawing package, is available. The documentation has also been updated for stable version 2.5.5, which came out last summer. The history of code changes has a partial listing of the changes, see the source code for the full list.

If the main xcircuit page is down, there is a slightly out of date mirror available on SourceForge.

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Networking Tools

The PacketFlow firewall generator

The initial release of PacketFlow is out. PacketFlow is described by author Paul Frieden as a "free command line XML based iptables firewall generator". Feedback is welcome.

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Printing

AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 Released

Version 8.00 of AFPL Ghostscript has been released. New features include DeviceN color space support, Spot color and Separation color spaces, native rendering of Overprint, Well Tempered Screening, and DiskN file resources within PostScript.

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CUPS 1.1.17 released

Version 1.1.17 of the CUPS print system has been released. See the release notes for a long list of new features and bug fixes.

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LinuxPrinting news

This week, the LinuxPrinting.org site lists several new additions to the Foomatic printer support database including foomatic-gswrapper support for systems without /dev/fd, new support for the HP DeskJet 3325 and LaserJet 1000 printers, and new font capabilities for the PostScript driver.

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Web Site Development

Analog 5.30 released

Version 5.30 of the Analog web server logfile analyzer package is available. New features include built-in support for gzipped logfiles, better host inclusions and exclusions, user-configurable decimal place support, a RISC OS port, Indonesian and Slovak language files, and bug fixes. Analog is a very useful tool for looking at what's happening on your web site, it can really help to figure out where your development time is best spent.

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mod_python 3.0.1 available

Version 3.0.1 of mod_python is available. This version adds support for Apache 2.0, and requires Python 2.2 or later.

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Midgard Weekly Summary

The November 28, 2002 edition of the Midgard Weekly Summary is out. Topics include Editors Notes, Developer Tools Overview, German Midgard Installation Tutorial (Mandrake Linux) available, New Modules in the Midgard CVS, Bugtracker Summary, and Mailinglist Summary

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Zope Members News

The most recent headlines on the Zope Members News include: PA Blog Tool 0.7 released, ZWeatherApplet v1.50 is out, ZopeTestCase 0.6.0 Released, ZWiki 0.13.0 released, DocFinderEverywhere 0.4.0 Released, JTracker issue tracker released, First LDAPUserFolder 2.0 beta released, OrderedObjectManager 1.2.4 released, TextIndexNG 1.07 released, and Silva 0.8.6.1 released.

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Zope Newbies

This week, Zope Newbies has articles on the following topics: Zope 2.6 and gzip, a new Zope Weekly News, Are Rich Clients Taking Off or Tanking?, Configuring SSH, and Inside United Linux.

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Desktop Applications

Audio Applications

AlsaPlayer 0.99.73 released

Version 0.99.73 of the AlsaPlayer audio file playing utility is available. "This release has better support for CDDA (CD) audio playback. Some bugs were fixed." See the ChangeLog file for the details.

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Audacity 1.1.1 documentation update

A documentation update is available for version 1.1.1 of the Audacity sound file editor.

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Desktop Environments

GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.3

Snapshot version 2.1.3 of the GNOME Development Series is out. "This release is an UNSTABLE development series snapshot. It is intended for testing and hacking purposes ONLY. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this 2.1.x series will eventually become the official 2.2 release."

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GNOME Summary for 2002-11-10 - 2002-11-30

The GNOME Summary is now available, covering the last half of November 2002. This issue covers new GNOME documentation; the release of GNOME 2.0.3 and 2.1.3; Sodipodi 0.28; Film Gimp; and much more.

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FootNotes

Headlines on the GNOME desktop FootNotes site include: Gnome2 to become the standard DE on Solaris 10, GNOME Foundation Elections: Preliminary results, GNOME Summary for most of November, Announcement: GnuCash 1.7.4 beta: ''The water of life'', GNOME System Tools 0.22.0 is OUT!, GNOME Dev Series Snapshot 2.1.3 released, Galeon 1.2.7 Released, Pumpkin BugDay Pie, GNOME Desktop 2.0 User Guide updated, GNOME 2.0.3 Desktop and Developer Platform Released!, Mozilla 1.2 released, and more.

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Kernel Cousin KDE

Issue #46 of Kernel Cousin KDE is out. Topics include: SMS plugin for Kopete, Debugging JavaScript, Improving tabs in Konqueror, Gold Medal for Sweden, Introducing kexi to KOffice, KSpread speaking better Excel, KOffice 1.3: Usability Aspects, Service for KOffice 1.2, No Money Handling in KOffice, and Dev. Newsflash.

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KDE-CVS-Digest for November 29, 2002

Derek Kite has announced that he will be doing weekly reviews of the kde CVS updates. For an example, see the November 29, 2002 review.

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GUI Packages

FLTK updates

The following new software is available for FLTK, the Fast, Light ToolKit: AntiPaint 0.95, and fltk-dos 1.1.1.

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Interoperability

Samba 3.0 alpha21 Snapshot released for testing

Recent changes in the Samba file and printer sharing utility include the release of the Samba 3.0 alpha21 Snapshot, which is documented in the WHATSNEW document, and an updated Samba Roadmap to 3.0 document.

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Kernel Cousin Wine

Issue #146 of Kernel Cousin Wine is available. Topics include: Wine-20021125, WineX on FreeBSD, Porting Apps With Winelib, Porting to a Standalone App, Submitting Multiple Patches, Debugging wineserver, Shortening Debug Logs, OpenGL & Double Buffering, Wine Under Cygwin, and Quick Response to SwitchToThread() Problem.

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Vstserver v0.2.0 announced

Version 0.2.0 of Vstserver has been released. Vstserver works in conjunction with Vstlib, which allows Windows vst audio plugins to be run under Linux.

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Office Applications

LyX Development News

The LyX Development News for November 30, 2002 is available. Topics include the LyX 1.2 series, LyX 1.3 CVS, and future developments for LyX.

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Web Browsers

mozillaZine

The latest mozillaZine topics include: Trunk Frozen for Mozilla 1.3 Alpha, Mozilla 1.2.1 Released, Renamed Phoenix 0.5 Set for Release Next Week, Bugzilla 2.17.1 Released, and more.

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Phoenix 0.4 available

Version 0.4 of the Phoenix web browser has been announced. The list of changes includes: improvements to pop-up blocking, improvements to toolbar customization, improvements to tabbed browsing and shortcut keys, type ahead find returns, addressbar gets smarter, bug fixes, and themes!

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Galeon 1.2.7 Released

Version 1.2.7 of Galeon is available. "This is a minor bugfix release of the stable branch that fixes a few bugs and adds support for Mozilla 1.2". Version 1.3.0 of the unstable release of Galeon is also available.

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Languages and Tools

C

Open64 0.15 Released

Version 0.15 of the Open64 compiler and development tools for Intel Itanium(TM) is available. "The new version includes ORC 1.1 and the LaTeX files for the WHIRL documentation created by John Mellor-Crummey and his team at Rice University."

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Caml

The Caml Hump

This week, the new software on The Caml Hump includes ara: A utility for doing boolean regexp queries on the the Debian package database, headache: A simple and lightweight tool for managing headers in source code files, TrxGeneric: an RPC transaction manager, Stred: Provides an ability to interactively edit/navigate arbitrary Ocaml data structures, and Ocamaweb: software that produce LaTeX documentation on MATLAB files with some special comments, and more.

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Caml Weekly News

The November 26 - December 3, 2002 edition of the Caml Weekly News looks at the OCAMAWEB release, and features discussions on why Ocaml doesn't support operator overloading and arbitrarily large integers.

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Java

Diagnosing Java code: Killer combo -- Mixins, Jam, and unit testing (IBM developerWorks)

Eric E. Allen covers a number of Java debugging techniques on IBM's developerWorks. "The safety of single-inheritance programming in the Java language comes at a price: sometimes code must be copied along multiple paths in the inheritance hierarchy. To regain much of the lost expressiveness in single-inheritance Java code, we can integrate mixins as one extension. This month, Eric Allen explains the notion of mixins (classes that are parameterized by their parent class) and how they can aid in unit testing."

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SashXB lends mini-RAD to Linux (IBM developerWorks)

Wing Yung and John Corwin write about SashXB on IBM's developerWorks. "SashXB extends JavaScript with objects that wrap native functionality -- and provides all the necessary tools for writing applications from scratch. In this article, the developers of SashXB explore its inner workings and demonstrate how SashXB simplifies the development, download, and installation of applications."

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Inside RelativeLayout (O'Reilly)

James Elliott explains RelativeLayout on O'Reilly. "As promised in my first article, "RelativeLayout: A Constraint-Based Layout Manager," here's a look inside the RelativeLayout package. This article explains how the layout manager works, and discusses how to extend it to support new kinds of constraints."

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Programming Jakarta Struts: Using Tiles, Part 3 (O'Reilly)

O'Reilly has an excerpt from Chuck Cavaness' book on Jakarta struts "In part 3 in this series of book excerpts on using tiles from Programming Jakarta Struts, learn how to use the tile tag library (which contains the following tags: insert, definition, put, putList, add, get, getAsString, useAttribute, importAttribute, and initComponentDefinitions)."

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Lisp

SBCL 0.7.10 released

SBCL version 0.7.10 is available. "This version improves CLOS and MOP conformance in PCL, provides initial support for building SBCL on MIPS platforms in little-endian mode, changes the behavior of TRUENAME and LOOP's NAMED clause, changes the way the location of source files is recorded in PCL method definitions, and fixes several bugs."

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CL-BibTeX 0.2 released

Version 0.2 of CL-BibTeX has been released. "CL-BibTex is a replacement written in Common Lisp of the BibTeX bibliography database tool. It allows users to format bibliographic entries using Lisp programs rather than the stack language of BibTeX style files."

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New Lisp tutorial in French

Francis Leboutte has put together an introduction to Lisp (in French) that is aimed at the novice level programmer.

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Perl

The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar

The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar has been published. Check it out for daily Perl tips through most of December.

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This Week on perl5-porters

The November 25 - December 1, 2002 edition of This Week on perl5-porters is out. The list of topics includes: Reference to an undefined value, Fun with syntax, MakeMaker PREFIX regression, Restricted hashes bug, and more.

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This week on Perl 6

The November 26 - December 1, 2002 edition of This week on Perl 6 is out. Topics include: C#/Parrot Status, NCI stuff (mostly) done, Changes to parrot/docs/jit.pod, Befunge-93? No! Befunge-98!, This week's patches, Multiarray usage, Meanwhile, in perl6-language, Dynamic Scoping, Status Summary; next steps, and more.

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PHP

PHP Weekly Summary

Topics on this week's PHP Weekly Summary include: 4.3.0 RC 2, C++ based extensions, PHP 5 not yet scheduled, IRCG 4 details, vpopmail improvements, 4.3.0 IIS ISAPI, Java fixes, ImageMagick extension merged, RADIUS extension.

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Internationalization and Localization with PHP (O'Reilly)

Adam Trachtenberg shows how to internationalize PHP on O'Reilly. "While everyone who programs in PHP has to learn some English eventually to get a handle on its function names and language constructs, PHP can create applications in just about any human language. Some applications need to be used by speakers of many different languages. PHP's internationalization and localization support makes it easier to make an application written for French speakers useful for German speakers."

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Python

Python-dev Summary

The Python-dev Summary for the second half of November is out. It looks at the status of modulefinder.py, preallocation of dictionary space, new string formatting ideas, new assignment syntax, and several other topics.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 26)

Here is the Python-URL for November 26, 2002. This week's issue contains a recommended security-related reading; leading Pythoneers explain their use of the language with RSS; and lots more python resources.

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The Daily Python-URL

This week's Daily Python-URL article topics include: BitTorrent, Andrew Kuchling on Python and Parrot, Python power: Growing respect for an open-source integration tool, What's new in Python 2.3?, and more.

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Ruby

The Ruby Garden

New topics on the Ruby Garden include: Statement to this forum, What ever happened with 'Design by Contract' being implemented in the Ruby inter(preter), Templating Lib?, Enhanced Readline?, and more.

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The Ruby Weekly News

Topics on this week's Ruby Weekly News include: each_with_index & collect_with_index?, RCR: Stack, Queue alias methods in Array, A Lesson Learned, Numerical Ruby, WeRDS, the Weekly Ruby-Doc Summary, for 2002-12-01, ruby-dev summary #18924-18973, and Last week's meeting. New Ruby software includes: Spreadsheet/Excel 0.0.1, xregex-0.02, MiniRubyWiki has struck again.

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Scheme

Scheme Weekly News

The November 28, 2002 Scheme Weekly News is out. Topics include Additions to the readscheme library, SWIG 1.3.17, Gauche-GTK 0.2.3, Quack 0.15, and TinyScheme for the Zaurus.

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Tcl/Tk

Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The November 29, 2002 edition of the Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL is out. Topics include Tcl conference proceedings, making GUI details identical across platforms, byte-code management, Wiki changes, GUI resources, using "dispatch", and more.

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XML

new XML.com articles

This week's articles on O'Reilly's xml.com inclulde: Michael Fitzgerald on XOM, a new easy-to-use Java API for XML, John Simpson explores XUL and WXS-driven transformations, Shelley Powers reviews the new batch of RDF specifications, and XML Versus the Infoset by Rich Salz.

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