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DevelopmentSystem Applications Audio Projects GStreamer "Desperately Seeking Sexiness" 0.4.0 released Version 0.4.0 of the GStreamer streaming media framework has been released with bug fixes and new features. See the release notes for more information.
Ogg Traffic for July 9, 2002 The July 9, 2002 edition of Ogg Traffic is out. News includes a bunch of status reports and an updated Ogg Theora video codec and integration project web site.
Education Linux in education report #74 The July 8, 2002 edition of the Linux in Education Report looks at efforts to get Linux into the classroom in India, Malaysia, Canada, and England. The Schoolforge Coalition is examined, and a number of new educational software packages are listed.
Electronics New gEDA software The gEDA News page lists new versions of the Icarus Verilog compiler, Gerber Viewer, and the GTKWave waveform viewer.
Mail Software miltrassassin released A new mail filtering package, miltrassassin, has been announced. "Miltrassassin is a sendmail milter, to connect sendmail to the spamd from the spamassassin package. The milter is multithreaded and implements the spamd protocol version 1.2 for tcp connection to spamd." Miltrassassin has been released under the Postcardware License.
Medical Software OpenEMR Released (LinuxMedNews) LinuxMedNews reports on the release of OpenEMR, a GPL licensed Electronic Medical Record System. "OpenEMR has been in development and beta testing for the past 2 years, and is finally released to the public for download. The system is cross platform, and operates on top of Apache or IIS, PHP and MySQL."
Printing AFPL Ghostscript 7.21 developer release A new developer release of AFPL Ghostscript has been announced "artofcode LLC and Artifex software are pleased to announce the 7.21 developer release of AFPL Ghostscript. This release, while a development snapshot, should be reasonably stable, thanks to our regression testing processes. This is the last snapshot before the DeviceN integration, and also Peter's pdfwrite font copying improvements."
Web Site Development ASPseek v.1.2.9 released Version 1.2.9 of ASPseek, a web site search engine, is available. A number of bugs have been fixed, see the Changes document for a detailed list.
Zope-CMF-1.3-beta2 Released Zope Corporation has announced the second beta release of version 1.3 of its Content Management Framework (CMF). The list of changes include:
Plus numerous bugfixes. The final release of version 1.3 should follow within two weeks.
Documentation LDPWN for 2002-07-09 Here is the lastest news from the Linux Documention Project.
Desktop Applications Desktop Environments Equinox Desktop Environment 1.0-beta released Version 1.0-beta of the Equinox Desktop Environment has been released. "Equinox Desktop Environment is desktop environment that is simple, fast with good look and feel. It use FLTK2 GUI library." The companion edelib-1.0beta has also been released.
GARNOME 0.12.1 released Jeff Waugh has announced the release of GARNOME 0.12.1. GARNOME, of course, is "the bad-ass, bleeding edge GNOME distribution for testers and tweakers everywhere." That said, much of the new stuff in this release is KDE related; it includes KDE 3.0.2 and a whole set of new KDE packages.
Office Applications AbiWord Weekly News The July 8 AbiWord Weekly News is available. Things have been relatively quiet on the development front - mostly improvements in the table support. The interesting news, perhaps, is that the AbiWord Weekly News is about to turn into a subscription publication. "I feel I need to know that I'm not just continuing editing AWN because it's what I've been doing for more than a year. I need to know that the readers appreciate it - otherwise, there's little point in continuing (I mean, I know the information I put in AWN, so I hardly gain anything from doing it). So I've decided to go commercial."
Web Browsers Mozilla Status Update The July 4, 2002 Mozilla Status Update is out with all of the latest Mozilla project developments.
Mozilla Independent Status Reports The latest Mozilla Independent Status Reports are available. Updated projects include Diggler, K-Meleon, Livelizard, and Mycroft.
New DOCTYPE sniffing in upcoming Mozilla releases (evolt.org) evolt.org looks at additions to Mozilla that will support some common, but broken web standards. "In the upcoming 1.01 and 1.1 releases, Mozilla will add an "almost standards" mode to its mix. This mode is virtually identical to the standards mode (now being referred to as "full standards mode") but with one crucial change. In almost standards mode, Mozilla will not implement the CSS-2 line-height rules that causes many pages with pixel-precise image layouts via tables to break apart."
Languages and Tools Caml The Caml Hump This week, The Caml Hump looks at lablglut: A GLUT binding for OCaml, the findlib library, OCaml-MySQL, netclient, the xstr thread-safe string tools, and the Cameleon IDE.
HTML XHTML: The power of two languages (IBM developerWorks) Sathyan Munirathinam introduces XHTML on IBM's developerWorks. "This article takes a pragmatic look at XHTML, a markup language that effectively bridges the gap between the simplicity of HTML and the extensibility of XML. It also covers the essential features of the various flavors of XHTML and includes discussions of the language and a number of real-world applications."
Java Turning streams inside out, Part 1 (IBM developerWorks) Merlin Hughes shows how to read data from an output stream using Java. "The Java I/O framework is, in general, extremely versatile. The same framework supports file access, network access, character conversion, compression, encryption and so forth. Sometimes, however, it is not quite flexible enough. For example, the compression streams allow you to write data into a compressed form but they don't let you read it in a compressed form. Similarly, some third-party modules are built to write out data, without consideration for scenarios where applications need to read in the data."
Perl This Week in Perl6 (use Perl) Use Perl has posted the Perl 6 Porters summary for July 1-7, 2002, a wide variety of Perl 6 topics are covered.
This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl) The Perl 5 Porters summary is available on use Perl. Topics include PerlIO::Via, an encoding.pm parsing bug, common opcodes combinations, and more.
diagnostics.pm Enhanced (use Perl) Use Perl is carrying an announcement about a new release of the Perl diagnostics core module. "Jean FORGET writes 'I have released a CPAN-ized version of the diagnostics core module. This is an alpha version. You can download and install it as any CPAN module, but you should backup first, this is an alpha version!'"
PHP PHP Weekly Summary The July 9, 2002 edition of the PHP Weekly Summary covers Python in PHP, Presentation system, a file_exists() bug, PHP and serial ports, TrustCommerce, the return of Jason Greene, and a PHP Bughunt.
Python This week's Python-URL Here is Dr. Dobb's Python-URL for July 8; look inside for pictures from the EuroPython conference, information on thread safety, the first Python Director release, and more.
Daily Python-URL This week's entries on the Daily Python-URL include Python in the enterprise, the Journyx Timesheet, Python Programming with the Java Class Libraries, CherryPy, Pythius, Eep3, Memigo, Yio, pycgirpc, Python Director, and more.
PYTHON: Yes, You SHOULD Be Using it! (Linux Magazine) Linux Magazine is running an introductory article on the Python language. "Python has been around for a dozen years and is going strong -- two production releases a year, a vibrant community, lively Net presence, yearly conferences, tracks on Python at Open Source and Web Development venues, books, articles, the works. Why is Python so popular? The reasons are simplicity, regularity, and the talent of Guido van Rossum, Python's inventor and Benevolent Dictator For Life."
Ruby Ruby Weekly News The July 8, 2002 Ruby Weekly News is out. Topics include Ruby documentation, Ruby as a replacement for shell scripts, packaged level protection, Ruby logos, a new irb type, and more. Some new Ruby software contributions are also included.
Tcl/Tk This week's Tcl-URL Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL for July 8 is out with the usual collection of interesting happenings from the Tcl/Tk development community.
XML Integrating data at run time with XSLT style sheets (IBM developerWorks) Andre Tost writes about data integration with XSLT style sheets on IBM's developerWorks. "Many applications now take advantage of XML to format business data. This allows the use of self-describing, tagged data that can be handled on a wide range of platforms and programming languages. Integration between heterogeneous applications is made easier through the use of XML data formats. Web services technology, for example, promotes the use of XML-based message formats for backend application data. However, integrating that data into user output during run time can be a challenge. In this article, Andre Tost describes how data integration can be achieved through the use of XSLT style sheets."
Sorting in XSLT (O'Reilly) Bob DuCharme shows how to use xsl:sort on O'Reilly's XML.com site. "XSLT's xsl:sort instruction lets you sort a group of similar elements. Attributes for this element let you add details about how you want the sort done -- for example, you can sort using alphabetic or numeric ordering, sort on multiple keys, and reverse the sort order."
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