http://developers.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-11-13T02:10:29+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://developers.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/1vNKu-w4UfQ/emStarCraftem-AI-Competition-Announced bgweber writes "The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2010) will be hosting a StarCraft AI competition as part of the conference program. This competition enables academic researchers to evaluate their AI systems in a robust, commercial RTS environment. The competition will be held in the weeks leading up to the conference. The final matches will be held live at the conference with commentary. Exhibition matches will also be held between skilled human players and the top-performing bots."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1729217/emStarCraftem-AI-Competition-Announced?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/12/1729217"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1729217/emStarCraftem-AI-Competition-Announced?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2fL6e2z1IB4m5IJof0gMVbe-nTI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2fL6e2z1IB4m5IJof0gMVbe-nTI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2fL6e2z1IB4m5IJof0gMVbe-nTI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2fL6e2z1IB4m5IJof0gMVbe-nTI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/1vNKu-w4UfQ" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-12T18:31:00+00:00 programming here-comes-the-reaperzerg games 155 155,153,123,95,31,19,9 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1729217/emStarCraftem-AI-Competition-Announced?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/jcbQvuFgL3Q/Google-Under-Fire-For-Calling-Their-Language-Go Norsefire writes "Since releasing the 'Go' programming language on Tuesday, Google has been under fire for using the same name as another programming language that was first publicly documented in 2003. 'Go!' was created by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark. McCabe published a book about the language in 2007, and he is not happy. He told InformationWeek in an email: 'I do not have a trademark on my language. It was intended as a somewhat non-commercial language in the tradition of logic programming languages. It is in the tradition of languages like Prolog. In particular, my motivation was bringing some of the discipline of software engineering to logic programming.'"<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1256234/Google-Under-Fire-For-Calling-Their-Language-Go?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/12/1256234"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1256234/Google-Under-Fire-For-Calling-Their-Language-Go?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/glljxzCLXw_eNGbzE7FfHOI0O8o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/glljxzCLXw_eNGbzE7FfHOI0O8o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/glljxzCLXw_eNGbzE7FfHOI0O8o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/glljxzCLXw_eNGbzE7FfHOI0O8o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/jcbQvuFgL3Q" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-12T13:39:00+00:00 google rename-it-to-proceed-with-caution developers 458 458,458,352,270,51,25,14 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1256234/Google-Under-Fire-For-Calling-Their-Language-Go?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/fUTptMwCkXY/Go-Googles-New-Open-Source-Programming-Language Many readers are sending in the news about Go, the new programming language Google has released as open source under a BSD license. The official Go site characterizes the language as simple, fast, safe, concurrent, and fun. A video illustrates just how fast compilation is: the entire language, 120K lines, compiles in under 10 sec. on a laptop. Ars Technica's writeup lays the stress on how C-like Go is in its roots, though it has plenty of modern ideas mixed in: "For example, there is a shorthand syntax for variable assignment that supports simple type inference. It also has anonymous function syntax that lets you use real closures. There are some Python-like features too, including array slices and a map type with constructor syntax that looks like Python's dictionary concept. ... One of the distinguishing characteristics of Go is its unusual type system. It eschews some typical object-oriented programming concepts such as inheritance. You can define struct types and then create methods for operating on them. You can also define interfaces, much like you can in Java. In Go, however, you don't manually specify which interface a class implements. ... Parallelism is emphasized in Go's design. The language introduces the concept of 'goroutines' which are executed concurrently. ... The language provides a 'channel' mechanism that can be used to safely pass data in and out of goroutines."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/0210212/Go-Googles-New-Open-Source-Programming-Language?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/11/0210212"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/0210212/Go-Googles-New-Open-Source-Programming-Language?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8uh6yKBykntlQlTyK2R8-XK9LdI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8uh6yKBykntlQlTyK2R8-XK9LdI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8uh6yKBykntlQlTyK2R8-XK9LdI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8uh6yKBykntlQlTyK2R8-XK9LdI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/fUTptMwCkXY" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-11T05:21:00+00:00 software blatently-bracist developers 802 802,794,632,517,110,65,38 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/0210212/Go-Googles-New-Open-Source-Programming-Language?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/ag4Ft8Nr7Ks/EC-Formally-Objects-To-Oracles-Purchase-of-Sun eldavojohn writes "The EC has presented Oracle and Sun with a statement of objections. Despite the promotion of former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, the statement seems to focus entirely on what many have feared: MySQL vs. Oracle databases. From Sun's 8-K SEC filing: 'The Statement of Objections sets out the Commission's preliminary assessment regarding, and is limited to, the combination of Sun's open source MySQL database product with Oracle's enterprise database products and its potential negative effects on competition in the market for database products.' The EU and the EC are getting a rep for disagreeing with US counterparts." On Monday afternoon the DoJ reiterated its support for the deal. Matthew Aslett has a helpful timeline of the action from the EC.<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/1922206/EC-Formally-Objects-To-Oracles-Purchase-of-Sun?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/10/1922206"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/1922206/EC-Formally-Objects-To-Oracles-Purchase-of-Sun?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/86rzVwy9aw_TrP8PbFyi-A_ywaA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/86rzVwy9aw_TrP8PbFyi-A_ywaA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/86rzVwy9aw_TrP8PbFyi-A_ywaA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/86rzVwy9aw_TrP8PbFyi-A_ywaA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/ag4Ft8Nr7Ks" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-10T21:26:00+00:00 database bringing-about-the-most-feared-outcome developers 318 318,312,249,194,36,21,14 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/1922206/EC-Formally-Objects-To-Oracles-Purchase-of-Sun?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/_oQ7taOOJ2I/The-NoSQL-Ecosystem abartels writes 'Unprecedented data volumes are driving businesses to look at alternatives to the traditional relational database technology that has served us well for over thirty years. Collectively, these alternatives have become known as NoSQL databases. The fundamental problem is that relational databases cannot handle many modern workloads. There are three specific problem areas: scaling out to data sets like Digg's (3 TB for green badges) or Facebook's (50 TB for inbox search) or eBay's (2 PB overall); per-server performance; and rigid schema design.'<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2335214/The-NoSQL-Ecosystem?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/2335214"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2335214/The-NoSQL-Ecosystem?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4wBzc-ivtMHnxq2Q17APf3k7bDg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4wBzc-ivtMHnxq2Q17APf3k7bDg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4wBzc-ivtMHnxq2Q17APf3k7bDg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4wBzc-ivtMHnxq2Q17APf3k7bDg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/_oQ7taOOJ2I" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-10T05:12:00+00:00 database no-relation developers 380 380,378,326,240,57,30,20 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2335214/The-NoSQL-Ecosystem?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/0ouAAtlQk7U/Oracle-Outlines-Plans-for-Sun-Products-Casts-Doubt-on-NetBeans An anonymous reader writes to tell us that a recent FAQ released by Oracle outlines the plans for many of Sun's popular products like GlassFish, MySQL, and NetBeans. Many are worried at some of the possible avenues the decisions outlined could lead to, especially with respect to NetBeans. "What should have happened, Oracle should not have missed a beat and should have announced work on Oracle plugins for NetBeans and active Oracle support of NetBeans. This type of announcement would have brought a large and some-what skeptical NetBeans community much closer to Oracle. It would have been a big win for Oracle. NetBeans will continue to grow either way - but Oracle has missed a big chance to really change perceptions and at the same time move their tools to another level. What JDeveloper lacks is buzz, a wealth of community developed plugins, a wealth of support for other languages and a very, very large community. And of course it does not offer a platform in the NetBeans and Eclipse sense of the word. This is a huge missed opportunity for Oracle."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1845250/Oracle-Outlines-Plans-for-Sun-Products-Casts-Doubt-on-NetBeans?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/1845250"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1845250/Oracle-Outlines-Plans-for-Sun-Products-Casts-Doubt-on-NetBeans?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XnkU8boNqAkQg5_HjA95sCB-ROg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XnkU8boNqAkQg5_HjA95sCB-ROg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XnkU8boNqAkQg5_HjA95sCB-ROg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XnkU8boNqAkQg5_HjA95sCB-ROg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/0ouAAtlQk7U" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-11-09T20:44:00+00:00 java oracle-grinding-a-fresh-new-roast developers 150 150,143,102,82,29,21,11 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1845250/Oracle-Outlines-Plans-for-Sun-Products-Casts-Doubt-on-NetBeans?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/eqZ7U1Ftct0/How-Google-Uses-Linux postfail writes 'lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers on how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel every 17 months, presently carrying 1208 patches to 2.6.26 and inserting almost 300,000 lines of code; roughly 25% of those patches are backports of newer features.'<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2013246/How-Google-Uses-Linux?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/07/2013246"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2013246/How-Google-Uses-Linux?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G8lh40r-V7b6Y1uLj_ix32Dl3wQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G8lh40r-V7b6Y1uLj_ix32Dl3wQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G8lh40r-V7b6Y1uLj_ix32Dl3wQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G8lh40r-V7b6Y1uLj_ix32Dl3wQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/eqZ7U1Ftct0" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-07T20:39:00+00:00 google rebasing-not-freebasing linux 155 155,146,122,96,38,27,21 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2013246/How-Google-Uses-Linux?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/dwDsJqXph6k/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners Riskable writes "Remember that $200,000 Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI? Today Ubiquiti posted the winning entries to their support wiki. The grand prize was a tie between PyCI (written by yours truly) and NETSHe with OpenNET as the runner up. Source code and firmware images for each entry are available for download on their respective wiki pages. I'll be setting up a project page for PyCI (and l2sh) soon to make it a participatory open source product. Even if you don't have a RouterStation, or don't care about OpenWRT, there are numerous Python modules and tools inside of PyCI that could prove useful to other open source projects (e.g. iptables.py can read/interpret over 400 permutations of the iptables command). I'll also be checking the comments if anyone has any questions for me about PyCI or the contest in general. BTW: I'd like to thank all the commenters in the original article that insinuated that the technical requirements were impossible and/or that making a GUI to configure such complex things is a waste of time. I read every one and I wouldn't have made it such an obsession otherwise!"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0030256/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/0030256"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0030256/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OrQK72LzB5hENFZN46WyRXXH09A/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OrQK72LzB5hENFZN46WyRXXH09A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OrQK72LzB5hENFZN46WyRXXH09A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OrQK72LzB5hENFZN46WyRXXH09A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/dwDsJqXph6k" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-06T02:29:00+00:00 gui congratulations-to-you technology 87 87,79,61,48,18,12,7 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0030256/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/m7VDoaQ-wDk/Google-Releases-Open-Source-JavaScript-Tools Dan Jones writes "Google has open sourced several of its key JavaScript application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications. According to Google, by enabling and allowing developers to use the same tools that Google uses, they can not only build rich applications but also make the Web really fast. The Closure JavaScript compiler and library are used as the standard Javascript library for pretty much any large, public Web application that Google is serving today, including some of its most popular Web applications, including Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps. Google has also released Closure Templates which are designed to automate the dynamic creation of HTML. The announcement comes a few months after Google released and open sourced the NX server."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/2311241/Google-Releases-Open-Source-JavaScript-Tools?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/05/2311241"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/2311241/Google-Releases-Open-Source-JavaScript-Tools?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9wGgWR_7JW26vF-2rUCLvqocgds/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9wGgWR_7JW26vF-2rUCLvqocgds/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9wGgWR_7JW26vF-2rUCLvqocgds/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9wGgWR_7JW26vF-2rUCLvqocgds/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/m7VDoaQ-wDk" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-05T23:24:00+00:00 google see-not-evil developers 157 157,152,124,92,36,21,16 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/2311241/Google-Releases-Open-Source-JavaScript-Tools?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/i0yWyUYuow0/Epic-Releases-Free-Version-of-Unreal-Engine anomnomnomymous writes "Just a week after Unity announced its engine is now available for free to indie users, Epic Games has revealed a free version of its popular Unreal Engine technology. Called the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), it is a free edition of UE3 that allows community, modder and indie users more access to the engine's features and is available for all. Epic said game developers, students, hobbyists, researchers, creators of 3D visualizations and simulations plus digital filmmakers can all take advantage of the UDK for non-commercial use. The UDK site also offers detailed product features, technical documentation, commercial licensing terms and support resources."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/1451256/Epic-Releases-Free-Version-of-Unreal-Engine?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/05/1451256"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/1451256/Epic-Releases-Free-Version-of-Unreal-Engine?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/m1uAPpYpFua_PIfNX-JANyB_omE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/m1uAPpYpFua_PIfNX-JANyB_omE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/m1uAPpYpFua_PIfNX-JANyB_omE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/m1uAPpYpFua_PIfNX-JANyB_omE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/i0yWyUYuow0" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-05T15:47:00+00:00 games still-waiting-on-the-one-must-fall-engine games 214 214,212,164,109,30,16,11 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/1451256/Epic-Releases-Free-Version-of-Unreal-Engine?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/TvgqdzOZRBw/X11-Chrome-Reportedly-Outperforms-Windows-and-Mac-Versions An anonymous reader writes "In a curious contrast to conventional wisdom, there are reports of X11 Chromium being faster than Windows or Mac versions. In the thread titled 'Why is Linux Chrome so fast?,' a developer speculates that it is due to the use of X11 capabilities: 'On X-windows [sic], the renderer backingstores are managed by the X server, and the transport DIBs are also managed by the X server. So, we avoid a lot of memcpy costs incurred on Windows due to keeping the backingstores in main memory there.' Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/1334203/X11-Chrome-Reportedly-Outperforms-Windows-and-Mac-Versions?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/03/1334203"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/1334203/X11-Chrome-Reportedly-Outperforms-Windows-and-Mac-Versions?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uDcuNkn9d1KxT-ZRcZJQI6bYXTk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uDcuNkn9d1KxT-ZRcZJQI6bYXTk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uDcuNkn9d1KxT-ZRcZJQI6bYXTk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uDcuNkn9d1KxT-ZRcZJQI6bYXTk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/TvgqdzOZRBw" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-03T13:54:00+00:00 xwindows please-keep-it-that-way technology 541 541,529,419,350,88,47,27 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/1334203/X11-Chrome-Reportedly-Outperforms-Windows-and-Mac-Versions?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/_zCoCE5ZWHc/Fixing-Bugs-But-Bypassing-the-Source-Code shreshtha contributes this snippet from MIT's Technology Review: "Martin Rinard, a professor of computer science at MIT, is unabashed about the ultimate goal of his group's research: 'delivering an immortal, invulnerable program.' In work presented this month at the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in Big Sky, MT, his group has developed software that can find and fix certain types of software bugs within a matter of minutes." Interestingly, this software doesn't need access to the source code of the target program.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/2248246/Fixing-Bugs-But-Bypassing-the-Source-Code?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/29/2248246"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/2248246/Fixing-Bugs-But-Bypassing-the-Source-Code?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7NXpXOl6MaupZ9huCzR_TzdcYPA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7NXpXOl6MaupZ9huCzR_TzdcYPA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7NXpXOl6MaupZ9huCzR_TzdcYPA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7NXpXOl6MaupZ9huCzR_TzdcYPA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/_zCoCE5ZWHc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-10-29T23:03:00+00:00 software wrapping-puzzles-in-enigmas science 234 234,229,187,134,44,25,15 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/2248246/Fixing-Bugs-But-Bypassing-the-Source-Code?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/kQwAkdtGEt0/Speech-to-Speech-Translator-Developed-For-iPhone Ponca City, We love you writes "Dr. Dobbs reports that Alex Waibel, professor of computer science and language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa. Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the iPhone will respond with an audible translation. 'Jibbigo's software runs on the iPhone itself, so it doesn't need to be connected to the Web to access a distant server,' says Waibel. Waibel is a leader in speech-to-speech translation and multimodal speech interfaces, creating the first real-time, speech-to-speech translator for English, German and Japanese. 'Automated speech translation is an expensive proposition that has been supported primarily by large government grants,' says Waibel. 'But our sponsors are impatient to see this technology become more widely available and we, as researchers, are eager to find new revenues that will help us extend this technology to more of the 6,000 languages now spoken worldwide.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/0311214/Speech-to-Speech-Translator-Developed-For-iPhone?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/29/0311214"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/0311214/Speech-to-Speech-Translator-Developed-For-iPhone?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6oXRX5cKbGmnI5Mb99Iriui5AMo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6oXRX5cKbGmnI5Mb99Iriui5AMo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6oXRX5cKbGmnI5Mb99Iriui5AMo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6oXRX5cKbGmnI5Mb99Iriui5AMo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/kQwAkdtGEt0" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-10-29T11:57:00+00:00 programming we-got-a-word-for-that apple 133 133,125,89,67,28,20,9 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/0311214/Speech-to-Speech-Translator-Developed-For-iPhone?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/P94TmoQdnt8/Android-20-SDK-Released-Google-Maps-Navigation-Announced stoolpigeon writes "The Android 2.0 SDK is now available from Google. This puts to bed concerns about Google not releasing the SDK or perhaps being in some kind of exclusivity deal with Verizon around 2.0. The release notes give a nice overview of what is there. Those who already have the SDK can grab the updated tools as SDK components; everyone else will pick up everything when downloading the new SDK." Relatedly, reader riffzifnab reports that Google has also announced Google Maps Navigation, a GPS application for Android 2.0 that takes voice input and integrates with internet searches and Street View.<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/1524257/Android-20-SDK-Released-Google-Maps-Navigation-Announced?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/28/1524257"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/1524257/Android-20-SDK-Released-Google-Maps-Navigation-Announced?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JYbUddhoHynfxG3KrQQ4F-x6b7s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JYbUddhoHynfxG3KrQQ4F-x6b7s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JYbUddhoHynfxG3KrQQ4F-x6b7s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JYbUddhoHynfxG3KrQQ4F-x6b7s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/P94TmoQdnt8" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-10-28T16:23:00+00:00 google android-will-find-a-way-home mobile 121 121,121,109,84,28,13,7 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/1524257/Android-20-SDK-Released-Google-Maps-Navigation-Announced?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/h1k0rnpLfkc/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android An anonymous reader writes "Maemo 5 and Android have received a lot of publicity lately, despite the former not even shipping yet. Both have become famous partly for using the Linux kernel, but now that we have a choice, how do we pick one? Is the issue as mundane as choosing your favorite desktop distribution, or is there a more significant difference? This article compares the two from an end user and developer perspective, emphasizing root access and ease of sharing code."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/1335227/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android?from=rss"><img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/27/1335227"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/1335227/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ajswwU-Pm0cfMFxb7XGeqAB32i4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ajswwU-Pm0cfMFxb7XGeqAB32i4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ajswwU-Pm0cfMFxb7XGeqAB32i4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ajswwU-Pm0cfMFxb7XGeqAB32i4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/h1k0rnpLfkc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-10-27T13:49:00+00:00 handheld they-canna-take-our linux 244 244,239,199,157,44,28,17 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/1335227/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://developers.slashdot.org/search.pl