I have spent the last couple of weeks working on a very ambitious C++ program. The program is a software model of a mechanical engineering system. I have never undertaken a more challenging or more rewarding computer programming project. As I spent hour after hour poring over the code, I began to realize why everyone is making such a fuss about HTML 5.
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KDevelop 4.2 Released
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New features and other notable changes: improved C++ support, find and replace in files, more embedded documentation, improved problems toolview, rename assistant, better handling of locked sessions
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KDevelop 4.1 Brings Git Integration
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KDevelop 4.1 IDE brings Git integration, patch exporting, external scripts support, project fetching, integrated hex editor, PHP 5.3 support and more.
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Videos of GNU Hackers Meeting in the Hague available
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"Videos of the talks from the GNU Hackers Meeting in the Hague are now available. This meeting took place on 24-25 July at "Revelation Hackspace", prior to the GNOME GUADEC conference, and featured a workshop on GNUnet, a framework for free secure networking and decentralised applications..."
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Qt 4.7.0 Released
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New version of Qt, a cross-platform application and UI development framework, features QML, an advanced new declarative programming language, and significant performance improvements.
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KDevelop 4.0.1 released, with updated PHP support
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KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment), based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages. This is a bugfix only release and everyone is urged to upgrade as soon as possible.
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Nokia to open Qt even more by opening up governance
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Since the beginning, Qt C++ development framework has been a product that has collaborated with and embraced its developer community as much as possible. Nokia believes the time has come to take this model forward again and to empower the community even more by changing the way Qt is governed – by moving to an even more open governance model.
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What's new in GNU Compiler Collection 4.5
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GCC 4.5 promises faster programs using the new link-time optimization (LTO) option, easier implementation of compiler extensions thanks to the controversial plugin infrastructure, stricter standards-conformance for floating-point computations, and better debugging information when compiling with optimizations.
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Google releases RE2 Regular Expression Library for C++
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Google have released RE2, a regular expression library for C++ that provides a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative way to use regular expressions
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haxTuple Contest - Hack open source ERP, win an iPad
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xTuple, creators of the leading open source ERP, accounting, and CRM system, is looking for a few good hackers. By "hackers," of course, we mean developers willing to get involved in source code. The classical use of the term.
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Facebook re-write takes PHP to an enterprise past Remember C++? They do
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Facebook's re-written PHP to transform the dynamic language for fast performance on web-scale server farms without adding additional hardware. The site's engineers have announced HipHop, which turns the popular and dynamic PHP code into highly optimized but static C++ and then compiles it using the GNU C++ compiler, g++.
Read more »Free Software Supporter #18 announces some recent GNU software releases
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"Free Software Supporter is a newsletter run by the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and in it they have a section announcing a few software releases from the GNU project. However, they do not seem to provide any description of the projects aside from their name and version.
Read more »News: C is Still the Most Popular Open Source Language
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C represents more than 40% of all code written for open source software. But this figure comes from counting lines of code. What about Java and PHP, or C++?
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ABI compliance checker
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ABI-compliance-checker is a lightweight tool for checking backward binary compatibility of shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and data type definitions in two library versions (it checks header files along with shared objects) and searches ABI changes that may lead to incompatibility.
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Accessing PostgreSQL in C/C++
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For some, databases can be pretty intimidating. I remember some of the convoluted code I wrote years ago in order to avoid having to learn how to access a database from my programs. But it's actually not that hard to access a database, even in C/C++.
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