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DevelopmentThe MlView XML editor for GNOMEThe MLView project is putting together an XML editor for the GNOME desktop environment.
The MlView project is an on going effort to develop an xml editor for GNOME environment. It is written in C and uses the gnome libraries.
Features on the to-be-added list include an Undo operation, network support, views other than the XML tree view, and better documentation. Volunteer help is being requested. To see MlView in action, take a look at the screenshots page. GnomeDesktop.org has a look at the recently released MlView version 0.6.1. "A lot of features have been added in the release as a new tree editor, or some beautification and a lot of bugfixes." See the release notes for more information on the new release.
System Applications Audio Projects Ogg Vorbis 1.0.1 has been releasedVersion 1.0.1 of the Ogg Vorbis audio compression software is out. "It took longer than expected, but Vorbis 1.0.1 has finally been released. This release also coincides with the first beta of Icecast 2 and a Speex 1.0.3 bugfix release. Read all about these new releases, Xiph.org's trip to California, and more in this new edition of Ogg Traffic."A new version of Icecast, an Ogg-Vorbis streaming audio system, is also available.
Speex 1.0.3 and 1.1.2 ReleasedNew stable and unstable versions of Speex, a voice codec application, are out. The changes note for the stable version says: "In this bugfix release: a fix for a multithreading bug and a correction for an underflow problem that could slow decoding dramatically on x86 processors."
CORBA omniORB 4.0.3 and omniORBpy 2.3 releasedNew releases of omniORB and omniORBpy are available. These are bug-fix releases.
Database Software PgManage now Open SourceThe PgManage project has been switched to the Open Software License. "PgManage, the graphical interface to the Mammoth PostgreSQL product line is now Open Source."
PostGIS 0.8.0 ReleasedVersion 0.8.0 of PostGIS, a package that adds geographic object support to PostgreSQL, is available. "Refractions Research is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 0.8.0, the first version of PostGIS to support all the functions in the OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" specification."
PostgreSQL Weekly NewsThe PostgreSQL Weekly News for November 24, 2003 is online. "Most of the action (or reaction) last week centered around the release of PostgreSQL 7.4. This release had some international coordination and saw news articles in several different countries; I've supplied several links to articles below, and a few links to more links regarding the release."
Filesystem Utilities ntfsprogs 1.8.0 released (SourceForge)Version 1.8.0 of ntfsprogs, a set of NTFS utilities, is out. "Finally a stable release after a huge long wait. Lots of new utilities and the ntfs gnomevfs module."
Libraries Barbecue 1.0.6 Final released (SourceForge)SourceForge has an announcement for version 1.0.6 final of Barbecue. "All existing users of previous versions are strongly encouraged to upgrade. Barbecue is a Java barcode solution that provides Java GUI components for creating barcodes that can be printed and displayed on screen, and used in servlets."
QuantLib 0.3.4 released (SourceForge)Version 0.3.4 of QuantLib, a cross-platform C++ library for quantitative finance, has been announced. "To celebrate the third anniversary of the QuantLib project, version 0.3.4 of the library has been released. Monte Carlo valuation of barrier and binary options has been added. More option pricers have been ported to the new Pricing Engine framework."
Mail Software Working with Bayesian Categorizers (O'Reilly)Jon Udell explains Bayesian Categorizers on O'Reilly. "Months ago I wrote about how SpamBayes has solved my spam problem more effectively than I thought a pure content-based filter could. Time was the ultimate test, though. Would this razor lose its edge? It hasn't. Every day I sharpen it."
Networking Tools Net-SNMP 5.1 released (SourceForge)Version 5.1 of Net-SNMP, a set of tools and libraries for working with the Simple Network Management Protocol, has been released. "This release contains a bunch of new features and optimizations, most of which are outlined below."
Package Management Red Carpet 2.2 and Open Carpet 0.1 released (GnomeDesktop)New versions of the Red Carpet and Open Carpet package maintenance tools have been announced on GnomeDesktop.org. "These new versions of rcd, rug, and red-carpet allow you to now use any number of Red Carpet services, including ones set up by third-parties using the Open Carpet tools. This opens up the Red Carpet system to a very large body of software provided by the open source community that isn't shipped with Ximian products or your standard Linux distribution."
Printing CUPS 1.1.20 releasedAfter a series of beta releases, version 1.1.20 of CUPS, the Common Unix Print System, is out. The release notes detail the changes.
Foomatic 3.0.1rc1 releasedVersion 3.0.1rc1 of the Foomatic printer database has been released. "Compared to Foomatic 3.0.0 CUPS raster drivers can now be used with every spooler, many bug fixes were done, the multi-platform compatibility was improved, the compatibility of the PPDs with Windows clients is much better now, and several features were added."
Web Site Development Gallery v1.4.1 Release Candidate 4 Available (SourceForge)Release Candidate 4 of Gallery, a web-based photo gallery system, has been announced. "This release has several critical changes to RC3. New features for this 1.4.1 include voting/ranking of images, user self-registration, lost password reset, e-mail notifications, support for "skins" to customize Gallery's look and feel, a clearer and easier to follow Config. Wizard and tons of other small improvements and bugfixes."
Two Servlet Filters Every Web Application Should Have (O'Reilly)Jayson Falkner explains servlet filters on O'Reilly. "Almost every single web application you will ever make will seriously benefit from using servlet filters to both cache and compress content. A caching filter optimizes the time it takes to send back a response from your web server, and a compression filter optimizes the size of the content that you send from your web server to a user via the Internet. Since generating content and sending content over the World Wide Web are the bread and butter of web applications, it should be no surprise that simple components that aid in these processes are incredibly useful."
Tiki 1.8 -Polaris- RC2 released (SourceForge)Version 1.8 RC2 of Tiki, a CMS/Groupware package, has been released. "This second candidate is mostly a developers release with full adodb support, and many new features essentially for testing their ability to be stable in final 1.8. Many bugs have been fixed and some new features found their way into RC2. So we have a new search engine and the tiki-integrator and many more."
UnCommon Web 0.0 releasedThe initial release of UnCommon Web is available. "UnCommon Web is a web application development framework written in Common Lisp. Among its features are continuation-based page flow control, component-oriented user interface generation, programmer and designer-friendly HTML generation, backends for mod_lisp and Portable AllegroServe."
Desktop Applications Audio Applications ecasound 2.3.1 releasedVersion 2.3.1 of ecasound, an audio recording and playing utility, is available. "Ecasound's emacs mode, ecasound.el, has been updated to version 0.8.3. Due to severe bugs found in the native Python ECI implementation, the C implementation has been again set as the default. Minor interoperability problems with older JACK releases and Ecasound have been fixed. A bug that caused builds against an external libreadline to fail, has been fixed. Also recording problems with the WinTv 401Dbx and other bt878-based devices have been fixed. This release is compatible with the upcoming alsa-lib-1.0 releases."
Rhythmbox 0.6.1: ''Squish, Click, Squish, Squish, Click'' (GnomeDesktop)Version 0.6.1 of Rhythmbox, a music player, has been announced. "Maybe you'll like the MP4 support, or maybe various crasher fixes will tickle your fancy; but rest assured, there's something for everybody in this release."
Vstserver 0.2.8 and Ladspavst 0.1.5 releasedTwo Linux audio applications, Vstserver and Ladspavst, have had new releases. "These updates makes it possible to use windows vst plugins in linux applications getting very descent realtime performance."
Desktop Environments Expocity - efficient application switching (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org looks at Expocity: "expocity is an effort to integrate an efficient means of switching between applications into the window manager metacity. After pressing a keystroke, your window manager will present you a complete overview of all open windows and you can select the window, you want to switch to, visually."
The GNOME Summary is backThe GNOME Summary traditionally comes out every week, but we've not seen an issue since last July. The Summary has restarted, however, with this issue, covering November 16 through 22. Topics covered include a patch to find out how much memory an application is using in the X server, various new application releases, the first "desktop integration bounty hunt," and more.
KDE-CVS-DigestThe November 21, 2003 edition of the KDE-CVS-Digest is available. "Read about KJSEmbed and what it is good for. Image handling speedups in Khtml. Start of Oo table import support in KWord. Plus a continued focus on bugfixes."
XFree86 4.4.0 Release ScheduleA release plan for the 4.4.0 version of the XFree86 window system has been published. The code is scheduled for freezing on November 28, and version 4.4.0 is scheduled for release on December 15.
Desktop Publishing Passepartout 0.3 is availableVersion 0.3 of Passepartout, a desktop publishing system, is available. See the release notes for a list of changes.
Electronics New gnucap development snapshotA new development snapshot of gnucap, an electronic circuit analysis application, has been announced.
XCircuit 3.1.28 releasedVersion 3.1.28 of XCircuit, an electronic schematic drawing package, is out. Change information is in the source code.
Financial Applications ASPL Fact & AF Architecture version ML4 released (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org has an announcement for new versions of ASPL Fact and AF Architecture. "ASPL Fact is a new invoicing system for GNU/Linux (although it should compile and work on every platform where glib is available). It's based on AF Architecture, and it's licensed under the GNU/General Public License. The main new feature in this development milestone is the independent definition of the AF Architecture: a modular n-tier component architecture specifically designed for business-managing application design."
Graphics GIMP 1.3.23 Released (GnomeDesktop)Version 1.3.23 of the Gimp has been announced. "This release fixes numerous bugs. It also gives the libgimp APIs as well as the user interface some final polishing." Many other changes are included.
JSynoptic v0.4 released (SourceForge)Version 0.4 of JSynoptic, a Java-based graph plotter and complex run-time monitoring environment, is available. "Version 0.4 brings in more plot types and features, usability improvements, and a look and feel plugin."
GUI Packages New FLTK SoftwareNew software for FLTK, the Fast, Light ToolKit, includes version 1.2.2 of Gled, an automatic GUI generator, and version 181103 of Table, a table widget.
Instant Messaging French Language Version of ChatZilla 0.9.48 (MozillaZine)A French version of the Chatzilla IRC client has been announced.
Gaim v0.73 is out (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org has the announcement for Gaim 0.73, an instant messaging client. "The latest version of the Gaim IM client is out featuring a new logging format, spell checker fixes, translation updates and more."
Interoperability Wine TrafficThe November 21, 2003 issue of Wine Traffic is online with the latest Wine project news.
Wine-20031118 releasedRelease 20031118 of Wine has been announced. Changes include printing improvements, run-time detection of NPTL threading code merges from Crossover Office 2.1, reorganization of the source tree, and bug fixes.
Multimedia Azureus 2.0.4.2 released (SourceForge)Version 2.0.4.2 of Azureus, a Java-based BitTorrent client, has been released. "Version 2.0.4.2 brings mostly bugfixes to the recently-released, and greatly-enhanced 2.0.4.0 core. The multiplatform Azureus client greatly extends the original python clients feature set, with: managing multiple downloads at once from a single GUI window, detailed real-time download statistics with export to XML, auto-seeding and download queuing rules, initial configuration and torrent creation wizards, embedded tracker for easy hosting of your own torrents, PeerGuardian IP address filtering, optional web browser and command line interfaces, 19 available languages, plugins, and much much more."
Music Applications RTMix 0.75 releasedVersion 0.75 of RTMix is available. "RTMix is an interactive multimedia art performance, composition, and coaching interface capable of triggering various DSP applications and/or processes concurrently, as well as offering a tight coordination between computer(s) and live performers."
Web Browsers Independent Status Reports (MozillaZine)The Mozilla Independent Status Reports for November 24, 2003 are online. "The latest set of status reports include updates from MozManual, Mozquery, Deepest Sender, Mycroft, Preferential, MessageID-Finder, ieview, Searchsidebar, ConQuery, HON and the Creating Applications with Mozilla book. These reports are presented in an improved format."
Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting (MozillaZine)The minutes from the November 17, 2003 Mozilla.org staff meeting are online. "Issues discussed include releases, localised builds, the new website, Mozilla Thunderbird tinderboxes and CVS over SSH."
Word Processors AbiWord Weekly NewsIssue #171 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out with this week's round-up of AbiWord word processor news.
Miscellaneous BloGTK 0.8-5 Released (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org has the announcement for version 0.8-5 of BloGTK, a weblog client. "BloGTK 0.8-5 is now released for immediate download. The new release adds support for basic HTTP proxies for those using BloGTK behind a corporate or school firewall - making BloGTK the first Linux blog client to offer proxy support."
Languages and Tools Caml Caml Weekly NewsThe November 18-25, 2003 edition of the Caml Weekly News has been published. Take a look for the latest Caml news.
Java Best Practices for Exception Handling (O'ReillyNet)O'Reilly has published an article on Java exception handling. "Java's concept of exceptions and how they're used has led to controversy and, in some cases, bad programming practices. Gunjan Doshi seeks to lay down some best practices for using exceptions in Java."
Perl This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)The November 17-23, 2003 edition of This Week on perl5-porters has been published. "Due to my laziness, or perhaps to the lack of traffic on perl5-porters this week, this summary will be rather short, but hopefully long enough to provide your weekly dose of perl core information."
Perl Slurp-Eaze (O'Reilly)Uri Guttman explains Perl file slurping techniques on O'Reilly. "Slurping files has advantages and limitations, and is not something you should just do when line by line processing is fine. It is best when you need the entire file in memory for processing all at once. Slurping with in memory processing can be faster and lead to simpler code than line by line if done properly."
PHP PHP Weekly Summary for November 24, 2003The PHP Weekly Summary for November 24, 2003 is out. Topics include: PHP Benchmarks (continued), SimpleXML XPath, Win32Std extension, Windows snapshots, E_STRICT, check_syntax and strip_whitespace.
Python Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!The November 24, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL has been published. Take a look for a week's worth of new Python articles.
Ruby The Ruby GardenThe Ruby Garden features new discussions on resume after raise and Interface Checking.
Tcl/Tk Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!The November 24, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL is out with the latest Tcl/Tk article links.
XML Introductory Tour of Mozilla's XULNigel McFarlane introduces Mozilla's XUL on Informit.com. "XUL is an XML-based technology for expressing the GUI part of a software application. It has been used to express GUIs for applications as diverse as web browsers, email clients, calendars, calculators, spreadsheet editors, HTML editors, debuggers, and whole desktop environments. The free Mozilla platform—that is, the executable engine and libraries that accompany every Mozilla-based product—provides a fully-featured implementation of XUL. This article is a quick look at the main tags that Mozilla's XUL provides."
Binary Killed the XML Star? (O'Reilly)Kendall Grant Clark covers the W3C's binary XML workshop on O'Reilly. "There are at least two kinds of topics of permanent conversation in the XML development community: formally settled, and formally unsettled. In other words, members of the XML development community are perpetually discussing, on the one hand, issues which have been, more or less, formally settled by the relevant standards body and, on the other, issues not yet formally settled by the relevant standards body. As the canonical example of the first kind of permathread I tend to think of XML namespaces, which really are just here to stay, plain and simple. As the canonical example of the second kind, I tend to think of binary XML, which may or may not be blessed by the W3C, but which certainly engages the XML developer community in deep and fundamental ways."
SVG and XForms: Rendering Custom ContentAntoine Quint introduces the SVG 1.2 XML-based extension mechanism on IBM's developerWorks. "The first Scalable Vector Graphics specification (SVG 1.0) laid the standard for XML-expressed two-dimensional interactive and animated graphics. Since then, the W3C SVG Working Group has made efforts to take SVG a step further with a strong focus on enhancing features that ease the work of using SVG for Web and desktop application development. One of the most promising features introduced in SVG 1.2 is Rendering Custom Content (RCC) -- it offers a clean XML-centric extension mechanism to mix and match different XML namespaces within an SVG document. This article takes you through the creation of a simple push-button widget while introducing the RCC mechanism."
Cross Assemblers gputils-0.11.8 ReleasedVersion 0.11.8 of gputils, the GNU PIC Utilities for working with Microchip's PIC processors, is out. Changes include: "Fixed bugs."
Editors Bluefish 0.12 releasedVersion 0.12 of Bluefish, an html editor, has been announced. "Bluefish 0.12 features project management, a better user interface (for example a reworked menu, and improved keyboard navigation), support for remote files using gnome-vfs, a nicer user interface (many new icons and buttons, and general user interface cleanups), many bug fixes and much more."See this article on GnomeDesktop.org for more information.
Leo 4.1 beta 3 released (SourceForge)Version 4.1 beta 3 of Leo, a programmer's editor and browser, has been released. "This is the third official release of the reorganized 4.1 code base. The code appears solid, and has not been widely tested. Please use caution when using this code."
Mozedit 0.1.1 Final Released (MozillaZine)Version 0.1.1 final of Mozedit, a text editor extension for Mozilla Firebird and the Mozilla suite, has been announced. "Significant features aimed at web development have been added. The extension is now compatible with both Mozilla and Firebird and an optional Emacs mode is available."
IDEs GtkADA 2.2.1, GNAT Programming System 1.4.0 Released (GnomeDesktop)Version 2.2.1 of GtkAda, an ADA GUI Toolkit for GTK+, and GPS 1.4.0, a multi-language IDE, have been announced.
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![[MlView]](/images/ns/mlview.jpg)
A typical set of editor features are included, some of these are
copy/paste, drag/drop, support for multiple document views,
and graphical error reporting.
Some XML specific features include an xml element/attributes search,
tree-based element addition, support for namespaces, input validation,
and auto-completion.
The editor works with, and without an XML DTD.