Michael Ogawa from the University of California has devised a technique for visualizing the historic development of software projects with his Code Swarm experiment.

Java Caps 6, the Composite Application Platform Suite, is based on Open ESB and has the latest versions of the Glassfish Server and the Netbeans integrated developer environment on board.

The new Gnome appeared in March and includes improvements for both users and developers. We'll tell you about network-transparent filesystem access, improved usability, and new programs in the latest Gnome.

The latest GCC 4.3 is set to take the programming world by storm with new optimizations, experimental support for the next-generation C++ 200x standard, an optional parallelized C++ STL, and a new Java compiler courtesy of the Eclipse project.

RPath has released version 2 of its Linux distribution which is mainly designed for producing customized software appliances.

Software manufacturer Adobe has just released an initial alpha version for Linux of its developer environment AIR for Web technology .

Version 1.0 of Mercurial, a distributed version control system, has just been released.

We review new editions of Tomcat: The Definitive Guide and The Book of Wireless: A Painless Guide to Wi-Fi and B......
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