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Submission + - Subversion 1.5 will have merge tracking (collab.net)

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odiug
odiug writes: "Subversion, the hugely popular version control tool, will add Merge Tracking in 1.5, many developers have been waiting for this. In a post on Submerged (CollabNet's blog about Subversion) Guido Haarmans writes about the benefits of Merge Tracking and describes the new feature. Merge Tracking will support the following use cases:
  • Repeated merge: merge a branch into another branch this week, do it again next week. Subversion will remember what was already merged and only merge the new changes.
  • Automated merge with conflict resolution. Subversion can do most of your merges automatically, but merging inevitably involves conflicts that Subversion’s internal merge algorithm cannot resolve. If so, Subversion will ask the user to resolve the conflict manually.
  • Cherry picking: merge only one or a few changes on a branch, rather than all changes.
  • Record manual merge: sometimes users will merge something manually (copying code from one file to another by using an editor). Subversion 1.5 has functionality to explicitly add information about manual merges to the history database so its Merge Tracking information stays complete.
  • Rollback Merge: undo a merge. Merges are often not perfect and you may find out afterwards that something is broken. Subversion lets you undo the merge.
  • Merge auditing: merge data is automatically added to the commit log
"
Software

Submission + - Danny Smith stepping down as MinGW maintainer (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by
derrida
derrida writes: "From the cygwin mailing list: "Danny Smith sent email to the MinGW lists yesterday indicating that he was stepping down as a maintainer. Danny was the key person responsible for most of the improvements made to gcc and binutils for windows in the last couple of years. His contributions will be sorely missed. This is a real blow for Windows versions of gcc and binutils on both MinGW and Cygwin.""
Operating Systems

Submission + - Revolutionary Operating System Released (losethos.com)

Submitted by
losethos
losethos writes: "LoseThos V3.05, a 64-bit operating system for programmers has been released. It's command line syntax is based on C/C++. Documentation pulls-up source code where commands are self-explanitory. Programming has been dramatically stream-lined with graphics in source code, for example. Best of all, it's free and open source with all code included."
Novell

Submission + - The Linux Foundation Borrows Novell's Linux CTO (itjungle.com)

Submitted by Steve Stites
Steve Stites writes: "Markus Rex, who is chief technology officer for the Open Platform Solutions Group at Novell and who was one of the cornerstone executives named to the Linux Foundation board of directors back in April, is going to take a hiatus from Novell and work as CTO for the Linux Foundation."

ITJungle

Markus Rex's principle task during his 18 month assignment at the Linux Foundation will be to lead the development work on the Linux Standards Base. Will Markus Rex favor open standards or will he favor Microsoft's interoperability standards?
Programming

Submission + - PHP versus Microsoft ASP.net - A Comparison (allenharkleroad.com)

Submitted by
AlHark
AlHark writes: "I do ask that you read this article with an open mind, and consider that it is quite possible that PHP is no better or worse than ASP.net. I have become weary of the whole PHP is superior to ASP.net debate. I believe after reading you may find that ASP.net has a lot to offer you as a developer, maybe more so than PHP.

We as business persons evaluate technology based on its merits, not on what software vendors claim. We look at the nuts and bolts of the technology and what it can and can't do. This article should not be construed as PHP bashing, it is far from that. What it does is debunk several PHP myths and shows that ASP.net can do what PHP does and then some. If PHP could do what we needed, we would of course use it.

However ASP.net does what we need and therefore we use it. I have been polling website owners as to why they prefer PHP or ASP.net hosting. Most of the answers that I have been getting are: PHP hosting is cheaper, PHP programming tools are free, PHP is more secure, and PHP is faster. Read the full comparison at Allen Harkleroad blog."
Operating Systems

Submission + - 64-bit Kernel mode only OS, No Wussies (losethos.com)

Submitted by
losethos
losethos writes: "LoseThos is an open source, free, 64-bit operating system created absolutely from scratch with no restrictions (freer than GPL). It's designed to serve people who program for entertainment. It just supports a VGA display, keyboard, mouse, harddrive, CD-ROM and internal PC speaker. What more do you need for writing games? It's designed to serve as a supplemental operating system you duel boot to for this purpose. It's modern, however, supporting 64-bit (only) computing and multicore processors. It's like the old days when you could access all memory, use all instructions, access all ports, read all disk blocks. The memory space is identity mapped to physical memory so you can easily have processes interact. It has the most advanced command-line on the planet, seriously. Basically, as you type, it goes straight into a C/C++ compiler, with code outside functions executing immediately and the command line supports a variety of widgets including graphic, trees and file links."
Microsoft

Submission + - Is Open Source an Anathema for .NET? (infoq.com)

Submitted by
AlexGr
AlexGr writes: "By James Vastbinder (InfoQ): When .NET was first released Microsoft also released a subset of the .NET framework as Shared Source in the form of Rotor. Rumor is that the 2.0 version of Rotor will also be the last version of the .NET CLI released as source code to the developer community. Since that time, Microsoft has put in place an agreement with Novell and the Mono Project which allows for development of Mono to continue. Mono provides an open source version of the .NET framework and a runtime that is cross-platform compatible allowing for .NET applications to run on U/Linux and OS X as well as Windows. http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/dotnet-open-sour ce"
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Open Source Clustering Software - soon from Sun

Submitted by
Spinlock_1977
Spinlock_1977 writes: "In a world first, Sun will open-source its clustering code. Since the first clusters (IBM) to the generally agreed upon best (OpenVMS), clustering code has long been considered a Secret Sauce in large scale and high-availability computing installations. Does this move by Sun put pressure on other vendors such as Microsoft?

Infoworld has more details here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/27/Sun-dona tes-Cluster-to-OpenSolaris_1.html"
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - First iPhone development tool form Morfik

Submitted by piprog
piprog writes: Read/Write Web writes (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/morfik_build s_first_iphone_development_tool.php) about Morfik's announcement of a new version of their development tool targeting Apple's iPhone, being released Friday night. Morfik will include all Apple APIs for the iPhone when (and if) Apple makes them available.
Sci-Fi

Submission + - World's first web-only Sci-Fi series launched

Submitted by adinu79
adinu79 writes: The creators of Sanctuary call it The first broadcast caliber online Sci-Fi series. The website provides a trailer for the series and also an online store where you can download the episodes for $1.99 in different formats. You can view the first webisode (and the next 3 when available) for free through the Sanctuaryfans.com website

The series is dealing with the supernatural, the story revolving in a world full of vampires, werewolves and zombies. Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1's Carter) is starring and also acting as Executive Producer for the series. Also Starring is David Hewlett (Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis). The show's creator is Stargate SG-1 writer Damian Kindler.
Programming

Submission + - Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?

Submitted by
Jon
Jon writes: "To those who don't use the vi or vim editors, but who have tried them at least once, it seems unbelievable that some people swear by them. Several modes, weird key-presses to move around, unreadable commands... you name it. This article tries to explain visually and easily why those who learn vi never go back, and why, maybe, you should try it too."
Programming

Submission + - Printing from web applications

Submitted by
anoopjohn
anoopjohn writes: "Printing in web based applications is handled by the browser. This does not give the kind of control in printing as we do have in desktop based applications. It is possible to have some control using css padding, spacing, page-break etc but the control is minimal. The problem is that desktop based applications gain an edge over web based applications in areas where printing is critical. In countries, like India for example, where e-governance applications are beginning to pop up in all government departments this will result in too many desktop based (most probably written in VB or VB.Net) applications. Too many desktop based applications will result in a lock-in on the Operating System. The printing requirements include — ability to print on different paper sizes, ability to manage pagination and alignment on the paper. So what would be a standard approach to tackle this issue?"

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