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Abit To Close Its Doors Forever On Dec. 31, 2008 195

ki1obyte writes "Earlier this year the Taiwanese firm Abit, once a leading-edge maker of computer mainboards and other components, was slated to shut down motherboard production by the end of 2008 and focus on consumer electronics devices. Now X-bit labs reports that Abit will cease to exist entirely after midnight on the last day of 2008 because the owner of the brand, Universal Scientific Industrial, is in the process of restructuring and cutting their costs."
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jQuery in Action 154

Michael J. Ross writes "As perhaps the only substantial computer language embedded inside of the major Web browsers, JavaScript has brought an unprecedented level of power to client-side programming for the Internet. Yet as a result of cross-browser incompatibilities and other problems, it has probably also resulted in an unprecedented number of headaches for Web developers. JavaScript libraries attempt to mitigate much of these difficulties. One of the most popular such libraries, jQuery, is explored in a book by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz, titled jQuery in Action." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.

Feed Penny Arcade: News: Child's Play (penny-arcade.com)

Gabe: I have a bunch of Child's Play news to share with you and I'll start will an auction item.Wil Wheaton is going to be attending our charity dinner and auction on December 11th and we're auctioning off two seats at his table. The winning bidder will get two tickets to the dinner and seats with Wil. The table will also host some Bungie peeps as well as our very own Robert Khoo. so hit this link and start bidding. A star studded dinning experience awaits!If you'd like to attend the dinner but bidding on tickets isn't your style you can still purchase them right here. As I've mentioned before it really is an incredible night. The live auction is always the most exciting part of the evening. Here's a quick look at some of the items that will be available this year.- Harmonix Superpack (Flight and Hotel to Boston for a Harmonix Music Tour w/Dev Team-signed copy of Rockband)- Appearance in a PA Strip- One of these crazy HP Blackbird Ultra Machines- Trip for two to Iceland to visit CCP Games- Tour of Bungie StudiosAnd trust me that's just a tiny fraction of the cool shit we've got lined up. If you're in the area or you can get here by December 11th I highly recommend you try and attend. It's a lot of fun and it's all for Child's Play.In other CP news the poor sons of bitches over at Desert Bus for Hope have finally been put out of their misery. In the end they played for four days, twelve hours and raised $22,805. Thanks to everyone who supported/tortured these guys. Finally this isn't about CP but the Escapist has a great article about the PAX Enforcers. Their entire theme for this issue is "conventions" so there's some other PAX related content but the feature on the Enforcers is really nice. There's no way to ever thank them enough for their help. We literally could not do PAX without them. It's nice to see them getting recognized for their service. -Gabe out
Microsoft

Ballmer Calls Android a "Press Release" 270

Bergkamp10 writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to shoot down Google's new mobile platform at a press conference in Tokyo. Ballmer called Android a mere 'press release' at present, and said the mobile platform market is 'Microsoft's world.' Ballmer dodged requests to comment on specifics of the Android software platform, preferring instead to highlight the successes of the Windows Mobile platform which he said is on 150 different handsets and is available from over 100 different mobile operators. 'Well of course their efforts are just some words on paper right now, it's hard to do a very clear comparison [with Windows Mobile],' Ballmer said. 'Right now they have a press release, we have many, many millions of customers, great software, many hardware devices and they're welcome in our world,' he added."
Programming

Submission + - Visual Studio and Eclipse compared and contrasted

An anonymous reader writes: Getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can seem counterintuitive at first. Without being too philosophic about IDE design, this article presents the main differences between Visual Studio and the Eclipse IDE.

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