Warping it up! » code http://www.bytefarmers.com/log Fini Alring's Glossy Tech Zine Sat, 15 May 2010 09:26:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Ten Years Ago Today: Netscape Source Code Liberated http://www.bytefarmers.com/log/2008/02/14/ten-years-ago-today-netscape-source-code-liberated/ http://www.bytefarmers.com/log/2008/02/14/ten-years-ago-today-netscape-source-code-liberated/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:15:30 +0000 Fini Alring http://www.bytefarmers.com/log/2008/02/14/ten-years-ago-today-netscape-source-code-liberated/

Mozilla MascotToday marks ten years since Netscape Communications Corporation announced its intention to release the source code of the then in-development Netscape Communicator 5.0, heralding the beginning of what would become the Mozilla project. At the same time, Netscape stopped charging for Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Netscape Communicator Standard Edition 4.0.

On Monday 23rd February 1998, mozilla.org was launched to coordinate development of the open-source code. The actual release of the Netscape Communicator 5.0 source code took place on Tuesday 31st March 1998.

Mitchell Baker, who has been involved with the Mozilla project from the outset, is asking for ideas of how to celebrate Mozilla’s tenth anniversary year.

Ten Years Ago Today: Netscape Announces Free Communicator Source Code Release – MozillaZine

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Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns. In many cases we have bundled the patterns with pointers to related code from the Yahoo! User Interface Code Library.

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I went from NetBeans 3.1 to JBuilder Enterprise and directly back to NetBeans 3.6 again, and since I haven’t really looked at the commercial IDE’s as an option for my own projects. I have also used Eclipse and IBM’s Websphere Studio Developer (which is based on Eclipse codebase), and although they are fine products, they don’t really do it for me, since I have quite big focus on Java Web Development, and Eclipse needs commercial third party plugins (MyEclipse) to do that well at the moment.

NetBeans IDE 5.0 introduces comprehensive support for developing IDE modules and rich client applications based on the NetBeans platform, the new intuitive GUI builder Matisse, new and redesigned CVS support, Sun Application Server 8.2, Weblogic9 and JBoss 4 support, and a lot of editor enhancements.

Here are some of the cool features in this release:

  • Developing NetBeans Modules
  • Matisse GUI Builder
  • Servers
  • Web Frameworks
  • Web Services
  • Editor Enhancements
  • Code Completion
  • Refactoring
  • Version Control
  • Debugging
  • Other Usability Improvements
  • New NetBeans Add-on Packs
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In order to lock out both copied games as well as homebrew software, including the GNU/Linux operating system, Microsoft built a chain of trust on the Xbox reaching from the hardware to the execution of game code, in order to avoid the infiltration of code that has not been authorized by Microsoft. The link between hardware and software in this chain of trust is the hidden “MCPX” boot ROM. The principles, the implementations and the security vulnerabilities of this 512 bytes ROM will be discussed in this article.

The Hidden Boot Code of the Xbox – Xbox-Linux

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ECMAScript for XML (E4X) has been introduced in the beta builds of Mozilla Suite 1.8. It is an extension to the ECMAScript standardized scripting language, and allows the use of native XML primitives/objects, in other words it is no longer necessary to embed XML as Strings.

Check out my latest E4X Examples at the Codepit.

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* 99 Bottles of Beer in JavaScript v1.0

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