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Submission + - Komodo Spawns New Open Source IDE Project (techrythm.com)

Submitted by techoon on Saturday September 08, 2007 @02:13AM

techoon writes: Development tools vendor ActiveState is opening up parts of its Komodo IDE (define) in a new effort called Open Komodo. Komodo is a Mozilla Framework-based application that uses Mozillas XUL (XML-based User Interface Language), which is Mozillas language for creating its user interface.The Open Komodo effort will take code from ActiveStates freely available, but not open source, Komodo Edit product and use it as a base for the new open source IDE.

Submission + - How to be a Gentleman

Submitted by

Deltaspectre

on Sunday March 18, 2007 @10:16PM

Deltaspectre writes: "Lifehacker has an article on how to be a gentleman. Now, is being a chivalrous gentleman an artifact from a bygone era or is it still practiced today? Perhaps we all could learn something from this article (Slashdotters especially.)."

Submission + - Vista: The Honeymoon is Over

Submitted by BillGatesLoveChild on Sunday March 18, 2007 @09:51PM

BillGatesLoveChild writes: The Sydney Morning Herald reports the Vista backlash has begun, and is spreading to the popular press: "Utterly unimaginative, internally discordant and woefully out of tune".

You have to hand it to Microsoft. Despite the negative reviews of Microsoft's New Vista Operating System in the trade press, very little of that has filtered through to the general public. Friends and relatives have told me how eager they are to upgrade to it, for no other apparent reason than "It's New!" Warnings about draconian DRM, incompatability and poor performance as highlighted in ComputerWorld and in Peter Gutman's famous paper (apparently only famous to geeks) are lost on them.

But the Sydney Morning Herald Reports that as the general public experiences these first hand, the bad word is finally starting to spread. Customers have been reinstalling XP and advising others to wait. No one ever asked for Vista. Microsoft hoisted it upon us. Has Microsoft finally gone a Bridge to Far?

Submission + - Men focus on crotches

Submitted by JavaRob on Sunday March 18, 2007 @07:35PM

JavaRob writes: A study by the Online Journalism Review using eye tracking to improve page layouts turned up an odd result: men tend to reliably look at crotches in photos.

"Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed. [...]This difference doesn't just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site."

Interestingly, it seems like even knowing that their eye movements were being recorded didn't affect the habit.

Side note: the main article is actually interesting, if you can manage to tear your eyes away from George Brett's groin.

Submission + - Programming as a career?

Submitted by Jimmy on Sunday March 18, 2007 @06:17PM

Jimmy writes: I've successfully applied for a CS-type degree starting this year. I'm pretty excited about it, and I know I'll enjoy the course. However, I have this big looming doubt about the IT industry. Some sources say that demand for graduates is outstripping supply, while others claim that both demand and supply have dropped. What's the true story? Should I turn down my offers and go build a career in auto repair? I really want to do this for a living, but is the money in it any more?

Journal Journal: Physical Security in a Star Trek Universe 1

Journal by evought on Sunday March 04, 2007 @09:31PM

There was a program recently on Star Trek(*) technology and its influence on real inventions, I believe on the Discovery channel. The section on the transporter and my experience in high security environments (the Pentagon, pharma research labs, etc.) got me thinking on the staggering implications such a device would have on physical security of sensitive facilities.

Submission + - the history of the notebook

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04, 2007 @08:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: Heres a cool feature on the laptop computer and how it evolved into what we use today. You've probably read about most of it before, but it makes for a pleasant stroll down memory lane. http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/200 7/03/05/The-History-of-Mobile-Computing/p1

Journal Journal: Can we have some good games now?

Journal by o0splitpaw0o on Sunday March 04, 2007 @08:10PM

So, I saw on the Steam Powered Forums people requesting a ported version of Steam, so they could play their Windows favorites. I myself have been using wine, but you know how wine is. Tweaking, tinkering, tampering, learning to get it working.

Journal SPAM: Danger Room: The Pentagon Wants TiVo to Watch You 256

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday March 04, 2007 @07:45PM

Danger Room, a Wired blog, today cites a study of future electronic snooping technologies from Reuters, written by the Pentagon's Defense Science Board. More than anything, it seems these outside advisers want a surveillance system that would put Big Brother to shame, and they're looking at the commercial sector to provide it. So, what are the implications of using

Submission + - Why does Ruby shines

Submitted by

stefani

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @07:44PM

stefani writes: "Ruby on Rails made Ruby such a popular programming language. But why ? Why does Ruby shines? The maintainability side of Ruby on Rails is what people like. The fact that Ruby forces MVC on you helps too, also the fact that the templating and Object Relational Mapping (ORM) and testing and application code are all so tightly integrated helps. Good applications, once built, tend to be in production for an astonishingly long time. Which means that they have to be maintained for an astonishingly long time. Which means that maintainability is important. There are a lot of things that go into maintainability, but the biggest are object-orientation, MVC architecture, code readability, and code size."

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