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Compiere R2.5.1e   25 Sep 04
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Compiere released its newest Production Release 2.5.1e.

Significant functionality was added:

  • Credit Management & Dunning
  • Improved Discount Management
  • Payment-Invoice Allocation improvements (incl. Auto Match)
  • Ship/Receive in multiple UOMs
  • Service Level Agreements
  • GL Distribution
  • Prepayment Order Improvements
  • Financial Report writer improvements

Technical Improvements:

  • Support of Oracle 10g
  • Improved Database Connection management
  • Performance improvements

Significant reduction of open bugs.

RITE (Ruby 2) at Rubyconf 2003   25 Sep 04
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Matz has presented RITE at rubyconf 2003. www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Rite

matz called his talk: "How Ruby sucks".

A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects   25 Sep 04
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This is a draft book titled A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects. It’s in the style of Friedman and Felleisen’s wonderful The Little Lisper, but on a different topic.

Welcome to my little book. In it, my goal is to teach you a way to think about computation, to show you how far you can take a simple idea: that all computation consists of sending messages to objects. Object-oriented programming is no longer unusual, but taking it to the extreme - making everything an object - is still supported by only a few programming languages.

Can I justify this book in practical terms? Will reading it make you a better programmer, even if you never use "call with current continuation" or indulge in "metaclass hackery"? I think it might, but perhaps only if you’re the sort of person who would read this sort of book even if it had no practical value.

The real reason for reading this book is that the ideas in it are neat. There’s an intellectual heritage here, a history of people building idea upon idea. It’s an academic heritage, but not in the fussy sense. It’s more a joyous heritage of tinkerers, of people buttonholing their friends and saying, "You know, if I take that and think about it like this, look what I can do!"

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Sony details PlayStation Portable's chips   25 Sep 04
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(Source: The Register)

The PSP chipset comprises a number of components: the CPU, a media processor, a 3D graphics engine, a security processor and a power manager. The PSP’s MIPS R4000-based CPU will run at up to 333MHz, Sony chip designer Masanobu Okabe revealed at the Hot Chips conference in Stanford University, California. Its frontside bus runs at up to 166MHz, with both frequencies controlled by processor load. It contains a vector processing engine. link

RubyConf 2003 Presentations Posted   25 Sep 04
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(Source: Ryan Davis) In absolute record time (5 days compared to 3 months), rubyconf 2003 presentation materials have been posted. www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/RubyConf2003.html

I’m still waiting for some more, so check back periodically to see updates.

[Squeak-ev] Deutsches 3.7g zum testen   25 Sep 04
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Markus Denker posted this to the Squeak-ev list
 Ich habe mal ein erstes deutsches 3.7g zusammengestellt:

 http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~denker/Squeak3.7gDeutsch.zip

 Das ist einfach das letzte 3.7g Full Image + deutsche uebersetzungen.
 Die englischen Fenster habe ich geloescht, die engl. Demo-Projekte sind
 aber noch drin.

 Was wir brauchen ist

 -> Eine deutscher Willkommen-text
 -> ein paar deutsche Demo Projekte
 -> am besten ein deutsches tutorial...

 Bi den Einfuehrungs-texten sollten wir uns nicht an den englischen orientieren,
 die sind naemlich eher sinnlos, denke ich.

[ANN] celsoft.com/Battery 0.1.1   25 Sep 04
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(Souce: Sean O’Dell) Battery is a unit testing framework for Ruby. It captures all standard error and output and reports the entire summary of all tests formatted as valid YAML, for easier reading and parsing. Another key feature is that all tests run in the order they are added to their batteries, rather than arbitrarily. See the celsoft.com/Battery homepage for more information and documentation.

Homepage: battery.rubyforge.org/

Download: rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=268&release_id=531

Smalltalk isKindOfLike: Yogurt   25 Sep 04
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(Source: Stefan, comp.lang.smalltalk) Smalltalk is like an Apache hellicopter. Java is like a B52 bomber with pretty heavy duty jet engines.

Smalltalk is very well thought out, extremely well engineered, very flexible, and generally gives quite good performance in a multitude of situations. It’s very adaptable to many different situations, and has lots of tricks up it’s sleeve. Driving it is a bit of a paradigm shift from driving your average plane, it has some new fancy controls, but once you get the hang of it, it can be totally amazing and really fun. Even if you don’t totally know what you’re doing you can still get yourself out of a jam. Given that you’ve got a good pilot you can launch off to a quick start and really do some very heavy and impressive damage in a very short time. It also tends to perform quite impressively if you’ve got a few of them around, and easier to coordinate an army of them.

Java is pretty difficult to drive, and once you get it going in a certain direction it’s pretty hard to get it going somewhere else. It has a few turbo buttons on it so that if you really know when and where to use it, it can fly pretty well. You can surely get it going really fast if you fly it high enough and then point it straight into the ground. It’s generally not very flexible and often a real pain to deal with, but overall once you’ve got a flightplan fixed in stone you can fly it reasonably well and run it reasonably efficiently. If you are meticulous in your planning and implementation, it can really deliver the goods. If you make some mistakes, things can go very wrong that may become almost impossible to correct. Don’t count on any big changes, quick maneuvers, or any sort of fancy tricks that just might save the day, and leave yourself a good bit of time for planning and implementation before you expect to be able to deliver the goods. If you come accross any surprise attacks or come up against an Apache hellicopter, you could be doomed.

YAPV: yet another pickaxe version   25 Sep 04
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phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/ is ‘done’. Enjoy!

[ANN] Ruby/.NET bridge R3   25 Sep 04
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(Benjamin Schroeder posted this to ruby-talk) I’d like to announce Release 3 of our Ruby/.NET bridge, which lets you use Ruby and .NET objects together in your programs. (Releases 1 and 2 were available on the RAA and RubyForge, but this is the first one we’re announcing widely.) link. Make sure you check out the 5 minute tutorial. It’s impressive.

Test Version of FreeRIDE with RRB Refactoring Support   25 Sep 04
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(Source: Curt Hibbs) I just put up a test version of FreeRIDE that includes RRB Refactoring support and I would like to ask your help in testing it.

For windows user’s there is a complete pre-built binary (it can coexist with your current FreeRIDE installation), and for non-windows users there are instructions for adding RRB refactoring support to your existing FreeRIDE installation.

You can find full details at: freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?RefactoringSupport

Three monsters united: Woody+Oracle 9.2 + Compiere 2.4.4.a   25 Sep 04
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the monster of opensource ERP & CRM systems on the monster of free GNU/Linux operating systems with the monster of commercial object relational databases. What happens when 3 monters go to bed together?

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DE: Squeak Artikel C't   25 Sep 04
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In der C’t 7/2004 erschien ein Artikel ueber Squeak. Programmieren lernen mit Squeak: Von kleinen und grossen Erfindern. pdf

DE: My Compiere slides for Linuxtag 2004   25 Sep 04
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Bin gerade am Linuxtag 2004 in Karlsruhe. Die Folien meines Compiere-Vortrages

How well does the Oracle-compatability mode work for SAP DB? I got to check that as it might be an option to replace the existing Oracle DB dependency.

I will post a few pics from the Linuxtag later. Not too many people here this year. Linux has simply made it into mainstream. The adventure has long gone :-). Got a nice yellow "no software patents" t-shirt.

Squeak is a toy - so ?   25 Sep 04
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(source: email from Martin Drautzburg to stx-users ML; Oct, 22, 2003)
 > PPS:
 > I remember working for a company, where it took the make utility3/4 of
 > an hour to figure out *what* to compile, and the compilers a day to
 > compile- it was a C++ project b.t.w. which was canceled and replaced by
 > a Smalltalk program after they spent 50man-years on a non-working
 > program - so much for non-toy languages !

Yeah and I just spent 3 days in an inhouse J2EE workshop held by one of our chief architects. We spent most of our time fighting with the tools. Changed setting over and over. The goal of the workshop was to demonstrate how to insert a row into an oracle table. At the end of the 2 days the table was still empty. Another non-toy language.

I have written two small apps (apx 5000 LOC) one in squak and one in stx. It was a dream. Got up in the morning and fixed two or three bugs before breakfast. You can only do this with a real cool environment.

Easy (better: familiar) things are most successful   25 Sep 04
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(Source: James A. Robertson) www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView

Euruko 2003 Videos available at ruby-doc.org   25 Sep 04
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link[http://www.ruby-doc.org/downloads/Euruko2003]

The First European Ruby Conference was held at the University of Karlsruhein in Germany, from the 21st to the 22th of June, 2003. It was organized by Michael Neumann, Stefan Schmiedl, Armin Roehrl and with the help from many others.

Thanks to Michael, the presentations were digitally recorded and have been made available as AVI files. Some of theses are now available for download from ruby-doc.org The videos have had the some noise filtering and volume normalization applied, and have been converted to MPEG-1 to reduce (albeit slightly) their size.

Not all of the videos are available right now. Others will go up as time permits me to do the file processing.

I initially had some FTP timeout trouble uploading the files to ruby-doc.org, so I split them into chunks. I decided to leave them this way to help avoid marathon download sessions. To combine the chunks into the complete file you basically just need to 'cat' them in sequence. I've written a Ruby script to do this, available from the video download page. If anyone thinks they can mirror any of these files it would be a tremendous help.

If you know anything about video compression, and can tell me a way to make the files smaller without serious loss of quality, please tell me.

Smalltalk with Style   25 Sep 04
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Stephane Ducasse posted this to the Squeak-ML. download
 Smalltalk With Style is now freely available.
 Thanks Suzanne, Ed, and Dave. This is a great book everybody should read!!

 I added the chapter 27 of Smalltalk by Example.
 I added a link to point to the book of Liu: Smalltalk, Object and Design

ObjectGraph: a Ruby class inheritance hierarchy graph   25 Sep 04
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(Source: Mehr, Assaph, ruby-ML) A simple script that generates a graph of the ruby class hierarchy. The script relies on graphviz for generation of the PNG and HTML map files. Take a look at the basic Ruby class hierarchy on the project web site: link

Using the right hammer ..   25 Sep 04
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(Source: Robert Martin (UncleBob) in the pragprog-list) As a contractor you must do the best job you can for your client. This includes picking the best language for the situation. I agree that there are situations in which Ruby might be the best technical solution, but the worst political solution. In that case, you cannot use Ruby — you must use a technically inferior, but politically preferable language. There are other situations — more and more of them — in which Ruby is politically acceptable, and technically superior.

 

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