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Microsoft

Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2008 RC1->

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Tech.Luver
Tech.Luver writes "Reaching a major milestone in development, Microsoft today made available the Windows Server 2008 release candidate one (RC1) for customers to download and evaluate. To date more than 140,000 IT professionals and developers have been trained on Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, and 3,100 certifications have been granted on Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008, which is scheduled to release to manufacturing (RTM) by the Feb 27, 2008 launch event, reached the RC1 milestone today and is available to customers for download at Microsoft.com/ws08eval. ( http://techluver.com/2007/12/05/microsoft-releases-windows-server-2008-rc1-prepares-for-feb-08-mega-launch/ )"
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PHP

How to convince a coworker to use getters/setters 2

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An anonymous reader writes "I've just started a new job as a PHP programmer at a small startup. Two other programmers work at the company. One is a recent hire like me, and the other has worked there for several years, entirely in isolation, writing what he believes to be top-notch PHP code. The problem is this was his first professional coding gig and his code is kludgy, buggy, quirky and smacks of a lot of bad habits. He doesn't use getters and setters. He modifies the values in the $_GET, $_POST, and $_REQUEST superglobals. He makes excessive use of objectionable features of PHP such as the @ error suppression construct and the global keyword. He suppresses all warnings and notices. He uses __autoload() and other magical functions. But he wrote 99% of the code, and as convoluted as it is, it works and runs the business successfully. He feels threatened by us newcomers when we try to suggest he should do things differently. How can we (the newcomers) convince him to practice good encapsulation by using getters & setters for a start?"
Programming

Subversion 1.5 will have merge tracking->

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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
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Java

Java Urban performance legends

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An anonymous reader writes "Pop quiz: Which language boasts faster raw allocation performance, the Java language, or C/C++? The answer may surprise you — allocation in modern JVMs is far faster than the best performing malloc implementations. This article pokes some holes in the oft-repeated Java performance myth of slow allocation in JVMs."
Unix

Open Sound System (OSS4) goes GPLv2->

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mrcgran
mrcgran writes "The Open Sound System (OSS) is one of the first sound systems for Linux, predating ALSA, but in the last 10 years it's stalled in version 3.8 (the last public GPL version) and it's being replaced by ALSA as the sound system of choice in Linux. ALSA is a Linux-only solution, while OSS works in a range of Unixes as well, and both have advantages and disadvantages over the other. Now, OSS4 is out under a GPLv2 license, with a number of advanced features over ALSA, like its new dynamic VMIXing capabilities, low-latency kernel modules, simple API and many other features. This release seems to be important enough to shake the foundations of the current desktop sound systems, specially in Linux."
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Microsoft

Microsoft, Adobe Poised for Battle

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David Kesmodel from WSJ writes "Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Inc., which usually stay off each other's turf, are poised to do battle as they introduce software aimed at handling functions like video and animation on the Web, the Wall Street Journal reports. Microsoft today plans to unveil a test version of its Silverlight software that can be used to build advanced programs that run on the Web — an area Adobe has dominated with products like Flash — while Adobe plans to preview new video software called the Adobe Media Player, the WSJ reports."

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