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Alternative Palm programming

I've wanted to try my hand at Palm programming for a while, but have never really gotten into it. Perhaps part of this is due to the fact that the "official" way to program Palm apps is using C and doing low-level coding of event...

General

Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2

Let me know if you see anything broken...

Programming

CodeWorker

A while ago, I posted about AutoGen, a Guile (Scheme) based code generator (link to AutoGen homepage). CodeWorker is another code generator that takes a bit of a different approach. Here's my impression of the differences between...

PHP

CakePHP 0.10 final release is out

CakePHP 0.10 final release is out. I'm not doing any PHP work lately so I haven't had tried any CakePHP releases since the 0.10.5 releases in January, but I can see from the cakebaker blog that there's been a lot of activity and...

ProgrammingScheme

camel-case-from-underscored

Continuing Marc's exploration of Lisp, today we present a Scheme function that might be marginally useful: (more…)...

Linux

Review of GNOME 2.14

Interesting review of GNOME 2.14 Talks about various user interface and performance improvements - Yelp, Metacity, Pessulus, Sabayon, Gedit, Evolution, Ekiga, Beagle, etc....

LinuxUbuntu

Ubuntu security advisory

SecurityFocus reports a vulnerability in Ubuntu The problem is that the root password is stored in clear-text in a world-readable installer log file, verifiable by running grep password /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat...