Nokia has open sourced today the Hildon Input Method Framework, allowing developers to extend and improving, and also port it to other environments. The components opened are:
* The container UI and plugin system (hildon-input-method, LGPL).
* The glue to GTK+ (hildon-input-method-framework, LGPL).
* One plugin example (BSD).
The most referenced and most often used command on any Linux distribution is man, which lets users read the manual pages of other commands. Here are a couple of less well-known but useful commands that let you bookmark a position within a man page, and test a command you read from the man page without closing the page.
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Read more »"... if for example you have two windows in your application and both of them have a file menu, rather than having the file menu code in both of the windows, you can define an overlay and then share this one file between both windows. This centralizes the code for the file menu and makes updating/extending the menu much easier because code changes are only required in one place..."
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Read more »An ITU Ventures official July 2007 press release about the recent hiring of High-Tech Storage Expert Rick Franz as one of ITU Ventures newest Executive in Residence.
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