http://developers.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2012, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2012-02-10T16:52:49+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://developers.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/UYZH1ymSDKE/ask-slashdot-where-are-the-open-source-jobs <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vDG10kUaVz3-ag_rwotBqVbEryQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vDG10kUaVz3-ag_rwotBqVbEryQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vDG10kUaVz3-ag_rwotBqVbEryQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vDG10kUaVz3-ag_rwotBqVbEryQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>stry_cat writes "My company has bought into the FUD and is going 100% Microsoft. Rather than work in this environment and be continuously at odds with upper management, I have decided to seek employment elsewhere. Where do I look for an open source job? I've started with the local paper's Sunday classifieds. I've looked on dice.com and monster.com. However almost all are Microsoft related. The few that aren't are some sort of dinky contract or temp job. So is there a place to find a job in an open source environment?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+Where+Are+the+Open+Source+Jobs%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzwZv48"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F09%2F1633256%2Fask-slashdot-where-are-the-open-source-jobs%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1633256/ask-slashdot-where-are-the-open-source-jobs?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1633256/ask-slashdot-where-are-the-open-source-jobs?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/UYZH1ymSDKE" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-09T17:20:00+00:00 opensource employment-wants-to-be-free askslashdot 486 486,476,338,274,87,55,31 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1633256/ask-slashdot-where-are-the-open-source-jobs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/Gto3tN-D31w/ibm-seeks-patent-on-judging-programmers-by-commits <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7KI3QX6UHweXgap_rqU9Q2-5UD0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7KI3QX6UHweXgap_rqU9Q2-5UD0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7KI3QX6UHweXgap_rqU9Q2-5UD0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7KI3QX6UHweXgap_rqU9Q2-5UD0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>theodp writes "How'd you like to be deemed unworthy of a job based upon a scan of your GitHub updates? That's what proposed in a newly-published IBM patent application for Automated Analysis of Code Developer's Profile, which proposes weeding out developer candidates for certain roles based on things like the amount of changes one typically makes with each commit, how frequently and regularly one makes commits, what hours of the day one makes commits, the percentage of commits with conflicts that one resolves, and the 'depth' of one's commit comments ('shallow', 'mid-range' or 'deep'). Big Blue explains that commit or repository interactions can be used to produce a 'conclusion report' that compares a developer to others who have profiles on the repository, which helps management 'avoid wasted time with ineffective developers."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=IBM+Seeks+Patent+On+Judging+Programmers+By+Commits%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxYZEnc"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F09%2F1624232%2Fibm-seeks-patent-on-judging-programmers-by-commits%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1624232/ibm-seeks-patent-on-judging-programmers-by-commits?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1624232/ibm-seeks-patent-on-judging-programmers-by-commits?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/Gto3tN-D31w" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-09T16:37:00+00:00 ibm combine-with-eye-tracking yro 173 173,172,129,99,44,26,14 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1624232/ibm-seeks-patent-on-judging-programmers-by-commits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/ECph6DJNVx8/ask-slashdot-making-javascript-tolerable-for-a-dyed-in-the-wool-ccjava-guy <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8Iwt6fUanqVVO-n3RnjeeQVnGEo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8Iwt6fUanqVVO-n3RnjeeQVnGEo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8Iwt6fUanqVVO-n3RnjeeQVnGEo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8Iwt6fUanqVVO-n3RnjeeQVnGEo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>DocDyson writes "I'm a dyed-in-the-wool C/C++/Java developer with over 20 years of experience. I'm making a good living and having fun doing back-end Java work right now, but I strongly believe in being a generalist, so I'm finally trying to learn the HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript future of the Web. However, I find JavaScript's weak typing and dynamic nature difficult to adapt to because I'm so used to strongly-typed, compiled languages with lots of compile-time error-checking and help from the IDE. Does anyone out there who has made this transition have any tips in terms of the best tools and libraries to use to make JavaScript more palatable to us old-school developers?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+Making+JavaScript+Tolerable+For+a+Dyed-in-the-Wool+C%2FC%2B%2B%2FJava+Guy%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzO52FR"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F2332218%2Fask-slashdot-making-javascript-tolerable-for-a-dyed-in-the-wool-ccjava-guy%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/2332218/ask-slashdot-making-javascript-tolerable-for-a-dyed-in-the-wool-ccjava-guy?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/2332218/ask-slashdot-making-javascript-tolerable-for-a-dyed-in-the-wool-ccjava-guy?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/ECph6DJNVx8" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-08T01:10:00+00:00 java it's-an-acquired-taste askslashdot 561 561,548,395,299,113,72,48 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/2332218/ask-slashdot-making-javascript-tolerable-for-a-dyed-in-the-wool-ccjava-guy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/HcJxWKmRF2Y/the-20th-ioccc-winners-announced <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7tQpvqnEsAS_kxQXyJ6bQN8YIo0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7tQpvqnEsAS_kxQXyJ6bQN8YIo0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7tQpvqnEsAS_kxQXyJ6bQN8YIo0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7tQpvqnEsAS_kxQXyJ6bQN8YIo0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>An anonymous reader writes "The 20th International Obfuscated C Code Contest ended on February 5th, 2012, and the list of winners has been announced. According to the page, the source code for all the winning entries 'has not been released yet.' It will be available alongside code from previous years 'in late-February to mid-March.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+20th+IOCCC+Winners+Announced%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fw0ZbXL"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F1855240%2Fthe-20th-ioccc-winners-announced%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1855240/the-20th-ioccc-winners-announced?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1855240/the-20th-ioccc-winners-announced?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/HcJxWKmRF2Y" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-07T19:46:00+00:00 programming using-only-seven-bytes developers 34 34,34,24,15,9,7,6 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1855240/the-20th-ioccc-winners-announced?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/McBO_Xwwi0Q/programming-error-doomed-russian-mars-probe <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YbKuK1pxvvS14wNwUO77UZ6OYck/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YbKuK1pxvvS14wNwUO77UZ6OYck/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YbKuK1pxvvS14wNwUO77UZ6OYck/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YbKuK1pxvvS14wNwUO77UZ6OYck/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>astroengine writes "So it turns out U.S. radars weren't to blame for the unfortunate demise of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars sample return mission &mdash; it was a computer programming error that doomed the probe, a government board investigating the accident has determined." According to the Planetary Society Blog's unofficial translation and paraphrasing of the incident report, "The spacecraft computer failed when two of the chips in the electronics suffered radiation damage. (The Russians say that radiation damage is the most likely cause, but the spacecraft was still in low Earth orbit beneath the radiation belts.) Whatever triggered the chip failure, the ultimate cause was the use of non-space-qualified electronic components. When the chips failed, the on-board computer program crashed."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Programming+Error+Doomed+Russian+Mars+Probe%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxCusQA"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F1838236%2Fprogramming-error-doomed-russian-mars-probe%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1838236/programming-error-doomed-russian-mars-probe?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1838236/programming-error-doomed-russian-mars-probe?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/McBO_Xwwi0Q" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-07T19:25:00+00:00 mars to-infinite-loops-and-beyond science 273 273,270,204,175,67,41,27 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1838236/programming-error-doomed-russian-mars-probe?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/8vQuWi0r1is/nouveau-open-source-nvidia-driver-achieves-opencl-support <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ITqwrKez3ZvsP_01qVqsm9XcfCg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ITqwrKez3ZvsP_01qVqsm9XcfCg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ITqwrKez3ZvsP_01qVqsm9XcfCg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ITqwrKez3ZvsP_01qVqsm9XcfCg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>An anonymous reader writes "The Nouveau driver project that's been writing an open-source NVIDIA graphics driver via reverse-engineering has moved forward in their support. The Nouveau driver now has OpenCL acceleration support to do GPGPU computing on the open-source community driver for several generations of GeForce GPUs."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Nouveau+Open-Source+NVIDIA+Driver+Achieves+OpenCL+Support%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxtweVj"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F1645255%2Fnouveau-open-source-nvidia-driver-achieves-opencl-support%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1645255/nouveau-open-source-nvidia-driver-achieves-opencl-support?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1645255/nouveau-open-source-nvidia-driver-achieves-opencl-support?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/8vQuWi0r1is" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-07T17:33:00+00:00 graphics sentience-takes-time linux 107 107,101,78,43,15,7,4 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1645255/nouveau-open-source-nvidia-driver-achieves-opencl-support?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/fGMMoYgbZNo/kde-publishes-a-book-for-beginner-developers <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-OlktcpxLq86It79XnYjI4IzqsE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-OlktcpxLq86It79XnYjI4IzqsE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-OlktcpxLq86It79XnYjI4IzqsE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-OlktcpxLq86It79XnYjI4IzqsE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>jrepin writes "During a recent 5 day sprint, four KDE contributors planned and produced a handbook for beginning KDE developers. The guide is recommended for every new contributor to KDE development. It outlines technical aspects of contributing to KDE and is a valuable first point of contact for new developers. The guide offers insights into KDE from the developer's point of view, and explains how to check out existing code, modify it and submit patches. Currently the guide only focuses on the coding aspects of KDE. Contributors are welcome (encouraged) to expand the guide to cover other aspects of the KDE Community as well as enhance the existing content in the book. We are currently working on how to release subsequent versions."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=KDE+Publishes+a+Book+For+Beginner+Developers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwIWpGp"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F1336243%2Fkde-publishes-a-book-for-beginner-developers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1336243/kde-publishes-a-book-for-beginner-developers?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1336243/kde-publishes-a-book-for-beginner-developers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/fGMMoYgbZNo" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-07T14:09:00+00:00 books boil-the-water-put-in-the-packet developers 32 32,31,25,19,7,5,2 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/1336243/kde-publishes-a-book-for-beginner-developers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/BTKM1rWWBWo/hacking-the-nes-with-lisp <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4m5-v20yiGcFWJcu4680PknWj24/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4m5-v20yiGcFWJcu4680PknWj24/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4m5-v20yiGcFWJcu4680PknWj24/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4m5-v20yiGcFWJcu4680PknWj24/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>Andy Hefner has a detailed blog post covering his quest to program an NES with the assistance of Common Lisp. He developed a new 6502 assembler, a mini-language for composing musical sequences, and a neat demo (rom image).<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Hacking+the+NES+With+Lisp%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyO4D0h"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F07%2F0043241%2Fhacking-the-nes-with-lisp%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/0043241/hacking-the-nes-with-lisp?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/0043241/hacking-the-nes-with-lisp?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/BTKM1rWWBWo" height="1" width="1"/> Unknown Lamer 2012-02-07T02:00:00+00:00 programming covert-alien-technology developers 80 80,76,54,47,23,16,11 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/0043241/hacking-the-nes-with-lisp?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/60RoKJdmdjo/perl-data-language-2410-released <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R55gQ-pm8TQap0tKU8yoJtg43NQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R55gQ-pm8TQap0tKU8yoJtg43NQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R55gQ-pm8TQap0tKU8yoJtg43NQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R55gQ-pm8TQap0tKU8yoJtg43NQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>First time accepted submitter tonique writes "Perl Data Language (PDL) 2.4.10 has been released. Highlights of the new release are automatic multi-thread support, support for data structures larger than 2 GB and POSIX threads support. Also available is the first draft of the new PDL book. PDL is especially suitable for scientists. For those not in the know, 'PDL gives standard Perl the ability to compactly store and speedily manipulate the large N-dimensional data arrays which are the bread and butter of scientific computing.' Commercial languages used for the same purpose include MATLAB and IDL."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Perl+Data+Language+2.4.10+released%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fx98y3k"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F06%2F148248%2Fperl-data-language-2410-released%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/148248/perl-data-language-2410-released?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/148248/perl-data-language-2410-released?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/60RoKJdmdjo" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-06T15:36:00+00:00 math check-it-out science 94 94,93,71,56,23,8,6 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/148248/perl-data-language-2410-released?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/r98WOirh4mA/libreoffice-developer-community-increasingly-robust <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3xtNhEtE8d0oQxISJDy5APXisjM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3xtNhEtE8d0oQxISJDy5APXisjM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3xtNhEtE8d0oQxISJDy5APXisjM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3xtNhEtE8d0oQxISJDy5APXisjM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>New submitter someWebGeek writes "LibreOffice, the community-driven fork of OpenOffice, appears to have a very healthy and growing group of code contributors. The Document Foundation has published new stats that portray the climbing rates of developer involvement both in terms of numbers of people and numbers of code commits. One of the most encouraging aspects, as noted by Ryan Paul in an article at Ars, is that non-corporate code contributions by independent volunteers constitute the largest slice of the latest commit-pie."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=LibreOffice+Developer+Community+Increasingly+Robust%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FApPTjs"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F04%2F200248%2Flibreoffice-developer-community-increasingly-robust%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/200248/libreoffice-developer-community-increasingly-robust?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/200248/libreoffice-developer-community-increasingly-robust?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/r98WOirh4mA" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-04T22:09:00+00:00 opensource you-could-almost-call-it-jolly news 179 179,170,138,115,38,17,11 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/200248/libreoffice-developer-community-increasingly-robust?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/L4_zd3nBKJk/ask-slashdot-are-daily-stand-up-meetings-more-productive <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dun-VOGz64CVPzl6EHRla2_Dolw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dun-VOGz64CVPzl6EHRla2_Dolw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dun-VOGz64CVPzl6EHRla2_Dolw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dun-VOGz64CVPzl6EHRla2_Dolw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>__roo writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that an increasing number of companies are replacing traditional meetings with daily stand-ups. The article points out that stand-up meetings date back to at least World War I, and that in some place, late employees 'sometimes must sing a song like "I'm a Little Teapot," do a lap around the office building or pay a small fine.' Do Slashdot readers feel that stand-up meetings are useful? Do they make a difference? Are they a gimmick?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+Are+Daily+Stand-Up+Meetings+More+Productive%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyJ5v7X"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F04%2F0019200%2Fask-slashdot-are-daily-stand-up-meetings-more-productive%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0019200/ask-slashdot-are-daily-stand-up-meetings-more-productive?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0019200/ask-slashdot-are-daily-stand-up-meetings-more-productive?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/L4_zd3nBKJk" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-04T03:06:00+00:00 business leveling-up-your-agility askslashdot 444 444,440,342,297,83,48,35 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0019200/ask-slashdot-are-daily-stand-up-meetings-more-productive?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/OwB6I9P4r1U/firefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7tGjrHH3FcQXM4KuhGQFSbncQnM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7tGjrHH3FcQXM4KuhGQFSbncQnM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7tGjrHH3FcQXM4KuhGQFSbncQnM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7tGjrHH3FcQXM4KuhGQFSbncQnM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>eldavojohn writes "Describing Notifications as 'somewhere between email and IM,' Mozilla has announced this push technology as a way to receive notifications from websites without having to keep them open in your browser &mdash; as well as receiving them on your mobile device. A JavaScript API reveals early interface ideas by the team. This core concept is not new &mdash; both Google and Apple have their own push notification systems for Android and iOS respectively. However, 'It's important to note that this push notification system is distinct from the existing desktop notification mechanisms that are already defined in pending standards. The desktop notifications that websites like GMail and Seesmic Web display to Chrome users, for example, will only work when the website is left open in a tab. Mozilla's push notification system moves beyond that limitation.' Mozilla is attempting to take push notifications to the entire web for any website to use."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Firefox's+Web+Push+Notification+System+Announced%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwNByXu"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1930219%2Ffirefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1930219/firefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1930219/firefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/OwB6I9P4r1U" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-02-03T20:07:00+00:00 firefox convergent-alert-evolution developers 132 132,125,93,72,26,14,12 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1930219/firefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/A0E0s4aB3Ko/google-starts-scanning-android-apps <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sXXWBaDLCxX71H3wm94JE6o4T34/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sXXWBaDLCxX71H3wm94JE6o4T34/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sXXWBaDLCxX71H3wm94JE6o4T34/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sXXWBaDLCxX71H3wm94JE6o4T34/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>eldavojohn writes "A recent blog post has Android developers talking about Google finally scanning third party applications for malware. Oddly enough, Google claims this service (codenamed 'Bouncer') has been active for some time: 'The service has been looking for malicious apps in Market for a while now, and between the first and second halves of 2011, we saw a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market. This drop occurred at the same time that companies who market and sell anti-malware and security software have been reporting that malicious applications are on the rise.' So it appears that they allow the software to be sold even before it is scanned and it also appears that no one has been bitten by a false positive from this software. Apparently Bouncer is not as oppressive as Apple's solution although given recent news its effectiveness must be questioned. Have any readers had their apps flagged or pulled by Bouncer?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Starts+Scanning+Android+Apps%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwhpYXW"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F147201%2Fgoogle-starts-scanning-android-apps%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/147201/google-starts-scanning-android-apps?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/147201/google-starts-scanning-android-apps?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/A0E0s4aB3Ko" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-02-03T14:31:00+00:00 android bender's-job-between-seasons mobile 172 172,168,134,105,32,11,9 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/147201/google-starts-scanning-android-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/1t-U96SGn_w/craigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hc7zmjBp_2KeVbARYTjGfQA_p0Q/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hc7zmjBp_2KeVbARYTjGfQA_p0Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hc7zmjBp_2KeVbARYTjGfQA_p0Q/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hc7zmjBp_2KeVbARYTjGfQA_p0Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>mikejuk writes "The craigslist Charitable Fund has donated $100,000 to the Perl community for Perl5 maintenance and general use by the Perl Foundation. Craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month and it is mostly written in Perl. The entire architecture of the system is open source &mdash; a proxy array based on Perl and memcache and a backend provided by Apache, memcache, MySQL and, of course, Perl. This is a successful enterprise giving something back to open source &mdash; which is how it should be."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Craigslist+Donates+%24100%2C000+To+the+Perl+Foundation%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyS0J63"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F0432218%2Fcraigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0432218/craigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0432218/craigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/1t-U96SGn_w" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2012-02-03T13:08:00+00:00 perl have-a-few-bucks developers 99 99,98,84,69,26,19,11 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0432218/craigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/8CSAbzntUnE/new-bbc-sports-website-makes-heavy-use-of-rdf <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OdDJJ4gOIximpoGSmuU7KoWnLhA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OdDJJ4gOIximpoGSmuU7KoWnLhA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OdDJJ4gOIximpoGSmuU7KoWnLhA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OdDJJ4gOIximpoGSmuU7KoWnLhA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>New submitter whyloginwhysubscribe writes "A technical blog post describes how the BBC has rolled out the latest changes to its sports website in anticipation of the Summer Olympics in London. The innovative content management system extends the already available dynamic semantic publishing, which enables their journalists 'to spend more time creating great content and less time managing that content.' The post covers some of the technical and lots of the HCI / UI design decisions and is accompanied by a non-technical overview of the re-design."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=New+BBC+Sports+Website+Makes+Heavy+Use+of+RDF%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAxxnZi"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F01%2F1751230%2Fnew-bbc-sports-website-makes-heavy-use-of-rdf%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/01/1751230/new-bbc-sports-website-makes-heavy-use-of-rdf?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/01/1751230/new-bbc-sports-website-makes-heavy-use-of-rdf?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/8CSAbzntUnE" height="1" width="1"/> Unknown Lamer 2012-02-01T18:05:00+00:00 themedia semantic-sports-league mobile 89 89,85,69,59,23,15,10 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/01/1751230/new-bbc-sports-website-makes-heavy-use-of-rdf?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Search Slashdot stories query http://developers.slashdot.org/search.pl