Dear Santa, please, bring me Mk 41 next christmas, so I can fix . . . → Read More: The shortcut to switch tabs is…]]> The shortcut to switch tabs is…

Dear Santa, please, bring me Mk 41 next christmas, so I can fix this world.

I guess I can put a badge “Powered by OpenSolaris” somewhere around

. . . → Read More: move to the new server]]> Ok, the transition is over and DNS is propagated. Both web-site and blog are on a new server now.

I guess I can put a badge “Powered by OpenSolaris” somewhere around

]]> http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/2007/11/move-to-the-new-server/feed/ 1 http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/2007/09/some-things-which-happened-while-i-wasnt-blogging/ http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/2007/09/some-things-which-happened-while-i-wasnt-blogging/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:22:46 +0000 indeyets http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/?p=67 Haiku OS reported on their Google Summer of Code results

Makes me think, that I should really-really get some old mac-mini and install Haiku on it. At least, I can program some fancy Jukebox out of it

ohloh.net: The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories

Hey! I was only 1 year old, when they started to use version . . . → Read More: Some things which happened while I wasn’t blogging]]> Haiku OS reported on their Google Summer of Code results

Makes me think, that I should really-really get some old mac-mini and install Haiku on it. At least, I can program some fancy Jukebox out of it

ohloh.net: The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories

Hey! I was only 1 year old, when they started to use version control!

DSource: LLVM D Compiler

I love D language, I love LLVM — they make such a beautiful couple. Project is not complete, yet, but it already works for simple cases. Author needs any man-power he can get: spread the word, please.

Sam Ruby noticed CouchDB: Ascetic Database Architectures

It brought some more attention to CouchDB, which is really-really deserved. CouchDB is a document-oriented non-relational database written by Damien Katz and Jan Lehnardt in erlang, which has JSON, PHP and Ruby APIs (the number of APIs grows each day).

Opera released 3 public alpha-versions of their 9.5 series

Finally, Opera looks like a native application on mac. It is lightning fast with a new javascript-engine and heavily optimized UI code. I already use 9.5 on daily basis without problems, but your mileage may differ — it is an alpha-version, after all. Get it here

PHP 5.3 will have Late Static Binding

LSB will allow static methods to know about inheritance (to know, on which of the descendant-classes the method was actually called). Which means, that it will be possible to make a good-looking ActiveRecord implementation, after all these years.

BeOS was always about C++, opposing UNIX’es, MacOS’es and Windows’es choice of C (well, formally, windows had C++ api, but, still, it was very C-ish in it’s essence). Years passed, MacOS switched to Objective-C, Windows . . . → Read More: BeOS + SmallTalk]]> Some internal feeling makes me believe, that Smalltalk would be an ideal language for Haiku-OS/OpenBeOS (which looks more and more alive, again).

BeOS was always about C++, opposing UNIX’es, MacOS’es and Windows’es choice of C (well, formally, windows had C++ api, but, still, it was very C-ish in it’s essence). Years passed, MacOS switched to Objective-C, Windows switched to C#. Both of these languages are higher-level OOP languages which have some kind of memory-management. C++, while it has some advantages, still is not as easy and dynamic as these languages are.

Unfortunately, both Objective-C and C# are developed by Apple and Microsoft (correspondingly) behind the closed-doors.

So, what is the alternative? I see two of them:

• D
• Smalltalk

D is good, as it makes a step from C++ to real life, but is still low-levelish, by design. memory management will solve some headaches, but programming in it won’t be as fun as it can be. I like to see D as a language for writing libraries.

Smalltalk, on the other hand, is a high-level dynamic language which is just what is needed. Once you “taste” the fruit of dynamic languages you wouldn’t want to code high-level tasks in static-languages anymore (static is extremely good in low-level, though). To give you a brief idea on what all this is about, there is a nice article by a game developer who switched from C++ to Smalltalk: Learning to Talk: Introduction to Talking.

Further reading:

• Comparison of Objective-C and Smalltalk
• Smalltalk implementations
• Ambrai Smalltalk (Smalltalk for MacOS-X)
• F-Script (Smalltalk-based scripting environment for Cocoa)
• Comparison of programming languages @ wikipedia

Sun offers a new recipe for success — the Solaris OS + AMP (Solaris 10 OS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). For customers committed to the open AMP stack, this “recipe” provides the same Web applications they know and use, but on a more secure open-source platform with . . . → Read More: Sun Optimized AMP Stack for the Solaris 10 OS]]> Sun Optimized AMP Stack for the Solaris 10 OS .

Sun offers a new recipe for success — the Solaris OS + AMP (Solaris 10 OS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). For customers committed to the open AMP stack, this “recipe” provides the same Web applications they know and use, but on a more secure open-source platform with greater scalability. Sun provides complete step-by-step instructions to get up and running more quickly when building and deploying Web applications. Sun offers five easy steps to quickly develop Web applications.

Developer support for this optimized “stack” is supposed to start in march.

p.s. I wonder, if 2007 is going to be the year of Solaris…