Development

GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.1 released (GnomeDesktop)

Version 2.5.1 (the initial release) of the GNOME Platform Bindings has been announced.

The Modules List indicates the current availability of bindings for C++, Java, and Perl, a beta version of the bindings are available for C#. Bindings for Python and other popular languages aren't on the list yet, although they do exist for GTK+. The bindings are to be released according to this release schedule. In order to be accepted, new bindings must adhere to these rules.

The source code for the C++, Java, and Perl GNOME Platform Bindings is available by ftp.

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System Applications

Audio Projects

ac3jack launched

The initial release of ac3jack is out. "ac3jack is a tool for creating an AC3 (Dolby Digital) multichannel stream from its JACK input ports. Using this tool, an AC3 stream (up to 5.1 channels) is encoded in realtime and either written to a file or streamed to standard output."

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Database Software

Firebird 1.5 Release Candidate 8 available

Version 1.5 RC 8 of the Firebird database is available. "The development of Firebird 1.5 release is in final development stage ! The Release Candidate means that we're "almost there", and we turned our focus to remaining known issues and rough edges, final testing and bug squashing. We made a lot of progress with it thanks to your feedback."

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phpMyAdmin 2.5.5-pl1 is released (SourceForge)

The patch level 1 release for phpMyAdmin 2.5.5, a web-based database administration tool, is available and features several bug fixes.

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PostgreSQL Weekly News

The December 29, 2003 edition of the PostgreSQL Weekly News is out with the latest PostgreSQL database news.

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PostgreSQL Weekly News

The January 5, 2004 edition of the PostgreSQL Weekly News has been published. Take a look for the latest PostgreSQL database information.

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Embedded Systems

BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released

Version 1.0.0-pre5 of BusyBox, a compressed collection of Unix command line tools for embedded systems, is available. "The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp, fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and a few other odd fixes."

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LAMP Applications

Animal Shelter Manager 1.30 released (SourceForge)

Version 1.30 of Animal Shelter Manager, a LAMP application for running an animal shelter, has been announced. "This release massively improves performance and memory usage for Linux, Windows and MacOS X users. Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and shelters. Features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, internet publishing, pet search engine integration, web interface and more."

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Libraries

First development version of libburn (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org has the announcement for the first development version of libburn, a library for reading, writing, and mastering optical discs. "Remember this version is not intended for end users, but for frontend developers to start testing it. Many features are still missing, and it's far from reliable."

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Mail Software

GPGrelay 0.94 released (SourceForge)

Version 0.94 of GPGrelay has been announced. "GPGrelay is a small email-relaying server that uses GnuPG (the GNU Privacy Guard) to sign/encrypt (SMTP-Relay) or verify/decrypt (POP3-Relay) emails. This enables many email-clients to send and receive emails that are PGP-MIME conform."

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Mailman 2.1.4 released (SourceForge)

Version 2.1.4 of GNU Mailman, a mailing list manager, has been announced. "A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been closed, and four new languages have been added: Catalan, Croatian, Romanian, and Slovenian. Header filtering has been expanded for use with upstream virus and spam filters (see Privacy -> Spam Filters). Many other bug fixes have been included as well."

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Networking Tools

Enabling IPv6 in Linux (O'ReillyNet)

Ibrahim Haddad explains IPv6 on O'Reilly. "The design philosophy of IPv6 is a scalable protocol that provides a large address space with a simple structure, an original end-to-end environment, a NAT-free network, fast processing, and many features needed by current and future applications. Migrating from IPv4 to IPv6, and IPv6 deployment should not be expensive. IPv6 should inter-operate with IPv4 and provide tools and mechanisms needed by hosts running different IP versions to communicate with each other, and to enable applications to work with both IP versions."

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Printing

AFPL Ghostscript 8.13 release

Version 8.13 of AFPL Ghostscript has been released. "This is the third release in the stable 8.1x series and follows closely on last month's 8.12 release. It fixes some build issues and a crashing bug with the ps2epsi script but is otherwise identical to 8.12."

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LPRng 3.8.24 available

Version 3.8.24 of the LPRng printing system is available. Change information is in the source code.

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Security

adore-ng 0.31 announced

Version 0.31 of the adore-ng root kit is out. Security administrators should take a look. New features include evil-log-tagging, LKM infection, and reboot residency.

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Web Site Development

gURLChecker-0.7.4 (unstable branch) released (GnomeDesktop)

Version 0.7.4 of gURLChecker, a graphical web links checker, has been announced. Here are the changes: "Project management basics were added. Currently, one can create, modify, and delete a project. It is also possible to rescan a given page. Project management is currently for Web sites only. A "Lastmodified" column was added in the main tree view. The appearance of the settings dialog was updated to be more like GNOME. A toolbar was also added in the main window. A problem with the base href tag was corrected. An HTTP header parsing problem was corrected. UTF-8 enhancements and bugfixes were made."

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Zope 3 Newsletter

The Zope 3 newsletter for December 23, 2003 has been published. Take a look to see the latest Zope 3 news.

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Miscellaneous

GNOME System Tools 0.31.0 has been released (GnomeDesktop)

Version 0.31.0 of the GNOME System Tools configuration utility collection has been announced. "as promised in the last release, most of the work has been dedicated to porting the tools to other distros. The most exciting changes are the Fedora Core 1 support for all tools, the Slackware 9.1 support for all tools except network, and the yaboot support in the boot tool".

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Desktop Applications

Audio Applications

Session Exchange 0.0.1 for Ardour

Version 0.0.1 of Session Exchange, an add-on to the Ardour multi-track recording utility, is out. The description says: "It lets people easily manage their ardour sessions, specifically, with sharing snapshots across the internet for collaboration."

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Gnomoradio 0.8 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Version 0.8 of Gnomoradio has been released. "Gnomoradio finds, fetches, shares, and plays music that is freely available under a Creative Commons license. This version has numerous bugfixes and enhancements".

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CAD

PythonCAD release eleven

The eleventh development release of PythonCAD has been announced. "The eleventh release adds a few more fixes for running PythonCAD under Python 2.3 that were missed in the tenth release. This release improves the transfer of entities with associated dimensions from one layer to another. Prior to this release the dimension would be deleted, but now the dimension is preserved. This release also contains a number of file saving and loading cleanups applied to the code. A small number of bug fixes have been applied as well, and the addition of Ellipse and Spline entities has begun, though neither is complete yet."

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Desktop Environments

XFree86 core team disbands

XFree86 core team leader David Dawes has sent out a message stating that the core team has voted to disband itself. "I believe that this is an acknowlegement that the core team was no longer representative of the active, experienced and skilled XFree86 developers, or a place where technical discussion happens." What comes next is not clear at this point; XFree86 development will probably continue as always, however. (As seen on Slashdot).

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xrestop - go after your application's bloat... (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org looks at the xrestop utility, which can show X window system resource usage. "Some commonly used applications are using (wasting) an amazing amount of resources, for no apparent benefit. Xmms is using > 400 windows and wasting 10 megabytes is surprising, just to name one "interesting" result."

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GNOME Development Release 2.5.2 (GnomeDesktop)

Version 2.5.2 of the GNOME Development Release has been announced. "This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes."

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End of December GNOME Summary

The last GNOME Summary for 2003 is out; it looks at improvements in the wireless applet, some GNOME Foundation issues, and more.

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Gnome Summary

The December 28, 2003 - January 3, 2004 GNOME Summary has been published. This edition features an interview with kernel developer Rob Love, and more.

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KDE Traffic

Issue #72 of KDE Traffic has been published. The KDE.News summary says: "KDE Traffic #72 is out featuring an interview with Carlos Leonhard Woelz regarding his Quality Team proposal, integration of non-KDE applications in the KDE environment, last minute 3.2 tweaks and more."

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KDE Traffic #73

The December 31, 2003 edition of KDE Traffic has been published. The KDE.News summary says: "KDE Traffic #73 comes to you at the last day of the year, bringing you news ranging from the minimum necessary resolution to run KDE to displaying GNOME applications in the KMenu. Check it out!"

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KDE-CVS-Digest

The December 26, 2003 edition of the KDE-CVS-Digest is available. Here's the content summary: "Java binding now generated by build process. You can now mount KIO slaves with the fuse_kio module. Karbon now has snap to grid and curve smoothing. Initial import of the new Theme Manager. You can now create application configuration files with KConfEdit."

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KDE-CVS-Digest

The January 2, 2004 edition of the KDE-CVS-Digest is available for your reading enjoyment. Here's the summary: "In KMail, the beginnings of spam filtering. New version of the SSLIODevice and SSLServerSocket code. A alpha version of Debian KDE LiveCD was imported. Speedups in Khtml and KJS. And many bugfixes."

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Electronics

gEDA News

The latest releases from the gEDA project include new versions of the gwave waveform viewer, the Savant VHDL analyzer, the Gnucap circuit analyzer, and the Icarus verilog compiler.

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Financial Applications

GNUe Traffic

Issue #101 of GNUe Traffic is out with several new GNU Enterprise articles. Topics include AppServer and Moving to svn.

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SQL-Ledger 2.2.3 released

Version 2.2.3 of SQL-Ledger, a web-based accounting package, has been announced. This version features several new reports, more translations, and more.

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Interoperability

Wine Traffic

Issue #202 of Wine Traffic has been published. Take a look to see the latest Wine development news.

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Medical Applications

SQLClinic Releases Version 2.1 (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews reports on the latest release of SQL Clinic. "We are pleased to announce that SQL Clinic Version 2.1 - Stable is available for download. Unix and Win32 versions can be downloaded at www.sqlclinic.net/pub/."

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TEMPO EEG visualization software (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for TEMPO, an open-source package for 3D visualization of EEG activity. "TEMPO is able to read EEG recordings in standard EDF format and (if enough EEG channels available) to create animation of corresponding topographic maps over 3D human head model."

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Multimedia

GStreamer "Mobil Avenue" 0.7.3 released

Version 0.7.3 of GStreamer, a streaming multimedia framework, has been announced. "The GStreamer team is happy to announce our third release in the 0.7.x development series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework. The goal of this release series is to stabilize it towards a 0.8 release series which will be part of the GNOME 2.6 releases and hopefully eventually KDE 4.x."

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Music Applications

BEAST/BSE 0.5.6 is out (GnomeDesktop)

Version 0.5.6 of BEAST/BSE, the Bedevilled Audio SysTem / the Bedevilled Sound Engine, has been announced. "This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound generation back-end separated from all GUI activities. The most outstanding new features are the demo song, the effect and instrument management abilities, the track editor which allowes for easy selection of synthesizers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities."

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gmorgan 0.21 Released

Version 0.21 of gmorgan, a rhythm station, accompaniment tool, and pattern-based sequencer, has been released.

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MusE version 0.6.3 released

Version 0.6.3 of MusE, the Linux Music Editor, is available. "Release 0.6.3 is mainly a bugfix release, some bugs more serious than others have been fixed, all users are encouraged to upgrade, especially if you had problems with the prior release."

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OpenMusic 4.7.1 available

Version 4.7.1 of OpenMusic, a visual programming language based on CommonLisp/CLOS for music composition, is out.

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Office Applications

Gnumeric 1.2.4 released (GnomeDesktop)

Version 1.2.4 of the Gnumeric spreadsheet has been announced. "With a few more bugs fixed, and some final features enabled for the charting engine Gnumeric has now branched. Version 1.2.3 was not announced due to last minute fixes in xls export. The main extension in this release is the addition of value formats for the axis labels, user defined, auto generated from the source data, or from MS Excel."

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Digital Photography

flPhoto 1.2 released

Version 1.2 of flPhoto, an image management and display program, is out. The release notes mention several bug fixes related to the printing of images.

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Video Applications

dvbsnoop 1.2 released (SourceForge)

Version 1.2 of dvbsnoop, a dvb/mpeg analyzer, is available. "This version comes with some new helpfull features like bandwidth-snoop for PIDs, pidscan on a transponder, and frequency signal status snooping. Also playback from saved streamfiles is possible."

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Web Browsers

Epiphany 1.1.2 available

Development version 1.1.2 of Epiphany, a minimalist web browser for GNOME, has been announced. Many changes and bug fixes are included.

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Mozilla Backup 1.2 Released (MozillaZine)

Version 1.2 of Mozilla Backup is available. "Mozilla Backup is a tool for backing up and restoring Mozilla profiles. Version 1.2 adds better backup files, multilanguage support, support for Netscape and some new features. In addition several crash bugs have been fixed."

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Independent Status Reports (MozillaZine)

The January 4, 2004 Mozilla Independent Status Reports are available. The MozillaZine summary says: "The latest set of status reports include updates from Firebird Help, MacroTracker, SearchSidebar, xHermes, Forumzilla, wmlbrowser, MozManual and MozEdit."

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mozilla.org Status Update (MozillaZine)

The mozilla.org Status Update for January 5, 2003 is online. The MozillaZine summary says: "It includes news on Mozilla Firebird, ChatZilla, history searches, proxy configuration, internationalized domain names and more."

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Mozilla Links Newsletter

The December 23, 2003 Edition of the Mozilla Links Newsletter has been published. Take a look for lots of Mozilla browser information.

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Mozilla Links Newsletter

The Mozilla Links Newsletter for January 6, 2004 is out. "Do you like games? We do and for all of you who like them too, here is the first part of our take on Mozilla Games. Once again, the Mozilla platform excels in providing great all-purpose development tools. You are just clicks away to charge your Mozilla with some of the most beloved classic computer games. Enjoy!"

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Word Processors

AbiWord Weekly News

Issue #175 of the AbiWord Weekly News is available with another weekly roundup of AbiWord word processor news. Here's the summary: "AbiWord's first Developers' release in a few months. QNX gets an installer while an update about BeOS comes in. Plus, more information on Revisions and AbiCommand Document Server. Also, users who need your help."

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AbiWord Weekly News

The AbiWord Weekly News for December 29, 2003 is out with the following summary: "Follow up on last week, Star/Open Office import/export gets some improvements, Enchant gets an hspell upgrade, Windows gets some installer improvements and a reminder that we need more people helping out with translations. Oh, and some OZ rumour about 2.0.3 to come out possibly as soon as possible."

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AbiWord Weekly News

Issue #177 of the AbiWord Weekly News was published on January 4, 2004. "It's been a fairly generic week: a mention in the NYTimes, more NSIS2 development, a brand-spanking-new developer and some minor feature-enrichment for our features. It's the post-holiday hangover/soberfication."

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Miscellaneous

GnomeSword2 released - Bible study for GNOME2 (GnomeDesktop)

A new version of GnomeSword2, a bible study application, has been announced. "This is the first stable release of the GNOME2 version, supporting SWORD 1.5.6 and 1.5.7. It represents a major rewrite and features a full port to GTK2, with a new GUI which aims towards HIG compliance. It uses more GNOME functionality (including gnome-print and gnome-spell), and has support for new SWORD features such as preverse headings. A manual is now included, in both the English and French languages."

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JabRef 1.1 released (SourceForge)

Version 1.1 of JabRef, a GUI for managing BibTeX databases, is out. "JabRef 1.1 improves customization possibilities a great deal compared to version 1.0. You now have full control over which fields are displayed in the editor for BibTeX entries, and you can easily define your own entry types. There are also numerous other new features, improvements and bug fixes."

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Languages and Tools

Caml

Caml Weekly News

The Caml Weekly News for December 23-30, 2003 is available with the latest Caml language news.

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Caml Weekly News

The December 30, 2003 - January 6, 2004 edition of the Caml Weekly News is available with another round of Caml language articles.

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HTML

HTML Parser Integration Release 1.4-20040104 (SourceForge)

A new release of HTML Parser is available. "This can be considered an alpha candidate of the final 1.4 release, and has much improved stability, speed, and HTML page transformation capabilities. HTML Parser is a library, written in Java, which allows you to parse HTML (HTML 4.0 supported)."

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Java

ONJava: 2003 in Review (O'ReillyNet)

Chris Adamson reviews the Java activity for year 2003 on O'Reilly.

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JSP

Developing Custom Tag Libraries as Tag Files (O'ReillyNet)

O'Reilly has published an excerpt from Hans Bergsten's JSP book. "This excerpt from Hans Bergsten's JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition describes implementing custom tag library actions as plain text files and packaging them as tag libraries that can be used in JSP pages."

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Lisp

GNU CLISP 2.32 released

Version 2.32 of GNU CLISP, a Common Lisp implementation, is available. "This version includes the new modules `berkeley-db' and `pcre', supports files larger than 2 or 4 GB on platforms with LFS, provides a fully customizable prompt and more."

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SBCL 0.8.7 released

Version 0.8.7 of SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp) is available. "This version provides support in threaded builds for the fast userspace mutex facility in Linux kernel 2.6, performance optimizations, changes to the interface for thread arbitration, simple streams enhancements and the usual bug fixes."

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Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp 1.3

Pascal Costanza has released version 1.3 of his Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp. "The document tells how the author got to use Lisp, and provides a short introduction to and some background information about the language. It also discusses some of the obstacles faced by novices."

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Perl

This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)

The December 22-28, 2003 edition of This Week on perl5-porters is out with another week's worth of Perl5 news.

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This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)

The December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004 edition of This Week on perl5-porters has been published. "At the turn of the year, and in accordance with the grand schedule of things, occurred a code freeze for perl 5.8.3. Read below for the rest of the discussion that took place on perl5-porters."

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PHP

PHP Weekly Summary for December 24, 2003

The PHP Weekly Summary for December 24, 2003 is out. Topics include: PHP 5.0.0-beta3, Sandbox capabilities, New OCI8 maintainer, Even more win32 build system tweaks, error_reporting and user defined error handlers.

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PHP Weekly Summary for January 5, 2004

The PHP Weekly Summary for January 5, 2004 is out. Topics include: Feature freeze reminder, 2003 - looking back, VS.NET, include() / require() error format, Zend Language Parser source.

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Python

Introducing Lython

The Lython project has been created by Miles Egan. "Lython is a new lisp front-end for the Python programming language. It resembles common lisp and compiles directly to Python bytecodes and transparently integrates with existing Python code and libraries."

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Python 2.3.3 released

Version 2.3.3 of Python has been announced. The release notes say: "This is a bug-fix release for Python 2.3 that fixes a number of bugs, including a couple of serious errors with weakrefs and the cyclic garbage collector. There are also a number of fixes to the standard library".

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This week's Python-URL

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL for December 26 is out with the latest happenings in the Python development community.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The Dr. Dobb's Python-URL for December 30, 2003 is out; with weekly new and links for the Python community.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The January 5, 2004 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is out with links to more Python language articles.

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Scheme

Scheme Weekly News

The January 5, 2004 edition of the Scheme Weekly News is available. Take a look to see the latest Scheme language developments.

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Tcl/Tk

Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The December 23, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL is out with another round of Tcl/Tk article links.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The December 29, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL has been published. Take a look for another collection of Tcl/Tk articles.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The January 5, 2004 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is available with even more Tcl/Tk articles.

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XML

Content feeds with RSS 2.0 (IBM developerWorks)

James Lewin discusses RSS 2.0 on IBM's developerWorks. "A lot has happened in the RSS world since developerWorks last looked at RSS: Two new specifications have come out, RSS has become one of the most popular XML standards, and tools and feeds are popping up everywhere. RSS has contributed to the explosion of weblogs, and it is becoming a standard part of other Web sites, too. This article reviews RSS 2.0, looks at new RSS developments, and jump-starts your understanding of this important format."

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Getting Started with XForms (O'Reilly)

Bob DuCharme introduces XForms on O'Reilly. "The XForms standard, which became a W3C Recommendation last month, lets us define forms that are much more sophisticated than those of HTML. Perhaps more importantly, it makes it easier for applications that we write to grab and use the data entered into forms, because an XForms client can plug the data directly into any XML structure that you like."

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Merge XML documents with StAX (IBM developerWorks)

Berthold Daum explains the merging of XML files using StAX. " Deriving new XML documents from input documents is where the Streaming API for XML (StAX) shines. This tip explores how client applications can utilize the event-based API to efficiently merge two incoming XML documents into one."

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Miscellaneous

Six Signs That You Should Use Paper Prototyping (O'Reilly)

Carolyn Snyder writes about paper prototyping on O'Reilly. "This time of year, there's plenty of leftover wrapping paper sitting around. Why not put it to good use? If you create interfaces, you may have heard of paper prototyping. It's a technique that lets you mock up, test, and refine a design -- totally on paper -- before you write a line of code."

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