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I didn't think that program compiled by GCC affected their licensing 
.. unless they're including GCC in their distros

AFAIK, they are moving to LLVM.

LLVM doesn't have complete C/C++ language frontends except for GCC's.

So far BSD's attempts to get rid of GCC have been more announcement 
than actual. They also announced (separately) that they were going 
to create a BSD'ed C compiler that wasn't LLVM (something starting 
with a p). Don't hold your breath.

That was OpenBSD

Sorry, I am aware that there are differences between the BSDs, but 
I still lump them together when comparisons to GPL are involved.

HTC introduces new Android phone, adding TouchFlo 3D like (WinMobile) 
add-on, called Sense. It is even better, because it contains real 
widgets:


http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/htc-hero-details-begin-leaking-from-htcs-own-website

It's nice to see the kings of put-something-decent-on-top-of-Windows-Mobile 
doing something with Android :)

yes, because UI wise Androind is just the same crap as WinMobile 
:-)

btw - Flash coming to most of mobile devices in November this year 
...

Firefox 3.5 released, complete with cute HTML 5 welcome video.

I read lately how firefox is not handling the html 5 video proberly... 
you need javascript... :-(

hmm... for some reason, youtube videos eat a lot less CPU than they 
did before.

Maxim - IIRC I read something like Mozilla introducing JS free video 
support ...

Their you've-updated page uses JS for fallback support, but Firefox 
itself doesn't use the fallback (personally confirmed).

that's cool  :-)

now if only IE8 would have put SVG within the browser ... like firefox.

we'd have a perfect world  ;-)

No, IE8 would also need HTML5 video too, with full DirectVideo support 
preferably :)

No perfect world would have Flash video sites exist.

PHP 5.3.0 released - "Some of the key new features include: namespaces, 
late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic 
references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), 
over 140 bug fixes and much more."

http://php.net/releases/5_3_0.php

Hmm, they have added namespaces, but I am probably too dumb to understand 
their chaotic syntax :-) http://cz.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.rationale.php

It looks that PHP is more and more bloated. At least for most cases 
I used PHP I just needed a few conditions, includes and connection 
to database with a little bit image and email support. I really don't 
know why I should do "Personal Home Page" with closures, namespaces, 
etc..

You have to be aware that also many huge systems are written in Personal 
Home Page :) I agree about the bloat, there are many features I don't 
think it needs, I definately like that it got closures/anonymous 
functions.

They added a goto too -- not always a bad idea, but open to all sorts 
of abuse by poor coders:
http://www.php.net/goto

a double goto ??

just one quick glance at the list of functions for arrays, and I 
just want to run screaming back to REBOL :-)

:-)

brought the question towards arrays in R3 in rebol3 channel ....

PHP is trying to become java

yes, php from 4 or 5 on has got many java like features .. many are 
quite useless IMHO

death of kodachrome  ' :-/

http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/06/death-of-kodachrome-belies-the-technological-advance-it-represented.ars

Has anyone worked with http://www.freebase.com/which appears to 
be queryable online encyclpaedia

Yes, death of kodachrome is terrible. I've just ordered the last 
5 Kodachrome 64 films from the danish Kodak company. I hope, they 
get more before end of year, where it's finito. I plan to take a 
lot of time off to go and take photos with this film in the autumn. 
Next year I may end up selling my film camera and go with digital. 
Nah, probably not. ;-)

The theoretical patent problems of Mono are gone: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/06/the-ecma-c-and-cli-standards.aspx

After long years, two products are out of beta - Google Mail and 
VLC media player ...

FOG - new gfx library based upon AGG ... from the author of ASMJit/BlitJIT 
- http://twopixels.blogspot.com/2009/06/fog-graphics-library.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124702911173210237.html#mod=djemalertTECH
Google OS for netbooks

Google OS for netbooks

Amazon is hiring ... first round interviews are taking place on 2nd 
Life http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/07/amazon-second-life-job-fair.html

http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/- 3rd annual contest

FOG looks nice, its multithreaded  :-)

I think that we have some tests to try with AGG, once we get back 
to GUI :-)

Max - have you heard about Fresco, node based GUI manager? http://www.fresco.org/architecture.html

it seems a cousin to the glass project, of which glob is already 
very effective, and is a node-based lazy engine for rebol, using 
AGG exclusively.

glob? Somethin new? Well, when we will see Glass runnable? I mean 
- some cute demo?

glob has been showcased 3 years ago in a graphics demo... Its also 
the basis for liquid-paint.r

GLASS will wait for R3, and plugins.   its a decision I took last 
year.  GLASS is also a completely new GUI concept.. its totally different 
in the way you relate to a gui.  


There are still a few technological aspects to the concept that I 
wasn't able to resolve in the architecture itself.  This engine should 
allow non Graphical interface to be applied to any application.

like a Voice driven interface to forms, for example.  but the application 
isn't even aware of this... this is part of the skin itself.

Silverlight 3 available, now with ability to create external/offline 
applications, accelerated GFX and more - http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/03/18/silverlight-3-whats-new-a-guide.aspx