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Adding a pinch of color to code fragments in a Writer document can make it easier to read. But coloring code by hand is a rather daunting proposition...
"I was asked to find an inline “code editor” which means a script or a flash widget or a (shudder) applet that allows for editing of code (PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) inside an application. There are a lot of inline Rich Text editors and even some WYSIWYG editors, but the online editor that allows you to properly code inside an HTML document is CodePress."
Expert PHP 5 Tools is a new book from Packt that will help users to take their PHP development skills to an enterprise level by teaching them the skills and tools essential to write maintainable and efficient code. It contains many well-documented code samples and recipes that can be used as a starting point for producing quality code.
This document summarizes the initial research for adding distributed version control as an option for Google Code. Based on popularity, two distributed version control systems were considered: Git and Mercurial. This document describes the features of the two systems, and provides an overview of the work required to integrate them with Google Code.
orporations hold a ton of open source code behind their firewalls, and Jim Whitehurst wants to extract it. The Red Hat CEO knows whereof he speaks. Before joining the company he was at Delta Air Lines. In introducing the subject Matt Asay called this code waste. Which gave me a clever idea. Don’t think of these as corporate code contributions. Think of it as code recycling.
Code names have been around for a long time. Remember the Manhattan project in the 1940s? That turned out to be the atomic bomb. Thankfully, not all code names hide such sinister projects. So what kind of code names are developers out there coming up with?
Addressing a gathering here organised by Swatantra - Samudaya - Swadeshi Software for Suvarna Karnataka, he said children should have access to the source code, the basic programme of the software which would provide them an opportunity to practically learn the working of a software.
Anyone who has read many of my blog entries or articles will know that I'm a great fan of code quality metrics. By code quality metrics, I am referring to coding standards, best practices, complexity, but also to other associated statistics such as the number of unit tests run and the level of code coverage.
In response to criticism from Linux enthusiasts, Asus has made additional source code archives available for download with code for the asus_acpi module, BusyBox, and several other components. The code released by Asus brings the company into compliance with its obligations under the GPL and should satisfy most of the critics.