As many of you know, WordPress depends upon a variety of software packages to do the things that it does, as a weblog product (and some of you have extended it even further…). Two of these things are foundational items: PHP, the language and operational runtime for WordPress, and MySQL, the persistence datastore that WordPress [...]
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After several weeks, the long-awaited update to NetBeans 6.7, now with JavaFX support, is finally released to the general public. As you may recall, it was our expert recommendation to NOT uninstall or replace your NetBeans 6.5/6.5.1 IDE if you are actively developing for the JavaFX platform, since it was not available as a feature [...]
Here’s a fun news bit, on the cusp of the upcoming FCS release of NetBeans 6.7: Just when you thought you’d heard everything about declarative programming on the NetBeans platform… there’s the “rise” of Scheme, as both a dev language supported on NetBeans technology and as an implementation of an alternative NetBeans-based IDE on its own. LambdaBeans [...]
More than a year ago, we mentioned the TIOBE Index and how, despite being a popular scan of popular programming languages, is the creature of a commercial venture. A few days ago, Tim Bunce discussed on his blog about how the TIOBE Index can be, and perhaps has been, gamed, primarily through having owners of [...]
Snip-snip-snip– Snipt! No, this shouldn’t be confused with SnipSnap… Snipt is a new Web-based service that has a promising slogan: “long-term memory for coders”. The premise of the offering is to allow coders (developers, programmers, enthusiasts, etc.) to store their code snippets online and, presumably, to also share them with others. Clearly, Snipt has entered [...]
Hey developers! Get your copies of the Windows beta version of Chrome now!
“Shhh! It’s a secret! Don’t tell anybody that you can get Chrome now!”
If you’re not interested in source code, please go back to our article about Chrome availability.
But: if you ARE a developer, you’re definitely going to want to read about this:
The Setup When discussing the PlayStation 3 Ubuntu Linux construct, I mentioned Sony’s previous attempt at a hobbyist kit for the PlayStation 2. This is the story of that kit. The Premise On May 22, 2002, a limited release of an “enthusiast” developer product was released that converted a PlayStation 2 (with the original shell, [...]
