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Submission + - Python 3.0 to be backwards incompatible

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Friday February 01, 2008 @12:08AM

Stony Stevenson writes: Organisations using the programming language Python will be majorly affected by changes in store for the language over the course of the next twelve months, Linux.conf.au attendees were told this morning. The Python development community is working towards a new, backwards incompatible version of the language, version 3.0, which is slated for release in early 2009. Anthony Baxter, the release manager for Python and a senior software engineer at Google Australia, said all code would be broken back and all programs using Python will need changes. Baxter also added another tidbit for attendees saying that Python accounts for around 15 percent of Google's code base.

Comment Suicidal (Score 4, Funny) 36

by imagin8or on Monday January 07, 2008 @07:15AM (#21940596) Attached to: CES Scales Up While Companies Push Back

"the organisers attempt to top themselves every year" - in Blighty that means that they're annually attempting to commit suicide. So either they're very bad at it, or they keep getting distracted by the shiny things.

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Journal Journal: Bush Censored Climate Reports

Journal by AkumaReloaded on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @04:30AM

The Bush administration actively censored reports on the environment from the World Bank. This was discovered by the Government Accountability Project (GAP). Apparently Paul Wolfowitz was actively engaged in this censorship. How does this effect the deminishing credit of the World Bank. And can it lower the faith in the Bush administration even more?

Submission + - Red Hat Developer Studio first contact (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

juanignaciosl

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @04:03AM

juanignaciosl writes: "First beta of Red Hat Developer Studio has just been published. This IDE is a bunch of Eclipse plugins which comes out from JBoss IDE and Exadel Studio fusion. The main advantages it offers are: JSF development improved, specially integrating RichFaces and Ajax4JSF libraries; Seam (next J2EE middleware standard?) integration; it also includes plugins for JBoss, Hibernate...

RHDS seems promising. Is finally the time Java development meets Visual Whatever integration?

If anybody wants to read on first impressions you can check my software engineering blog post on Red Hat Developer Studio installation."

Submission + - Exclusive images of Endeavour's damaged tiles

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @03:01AM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Neptec Design Group, a Canadian company and a NASA prime contractor for 25 space missions, was kind enough to send me exclusive images of Endeavour's damaged tiles during its last take-off. So here are some of these pictures provided by Neptec. For more information, please read a recent interview with Iain Christie, the Neptec's president."

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