This article is an overview of the changes to the C++ compiler in Visual Studio 2010 including lambda expressions, rvalue references, auto, decltype and static_assert.
Emery Fletcher has been exploring small-footprint Linux distributions like Damn Small Linux, SliTaz, and Puppy. Since even small mobile devices have lots of RAM and storage these days, and cloud apps are everywhere, are these small Linuxes still worthwhile?
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "The open source OpenOffice productivity suite is a cross-platform powerhouse, and you can can add additional functionality by installing extensions. Eric Geier offers six OpenOffice extensions for analyzing readability, special text effects, advanced math functions, and more."
<b>Developer.com:</b> "Thanks to a number of well-designed tools, MySQL simply is a very easy database to "talk to," a convenience which is particularly important because developers often are tasked not only with constructing very complex schemas and queries, but also with monitoring overall server health and performance."
<b>Handle With Linux:</b> "Reasons for using a reverse shell include: you can bypass firewalls, you can connect to your phone without knowing the ip, the connection is initiated from the phone so you don't need to have a ssh server listening on your phone. Just think of all the fun this makes possible!"
<b>Ubuntu User:</b> "Amidst reports that Ubuntu would ditch longtime default browser Firefox for Google's Chrome browser were put to rest with a resounding "sort of.""
<b>Small Business Computing:</b> "Microsoft is getting ready to ship Office 2010, but a lot of small businesses realize they don't need all the features (or licensing costs) that come with Microsoft Office. The front-runners for Office replacements are OpenOffice.org and Google Docs, but which one is right for your business?"
<b>Linux Magazine: </b>"Email was the killer mobile application for a decade or so. But not any longer. Today's mobile user still uses email of course, but there is so much more that defines today's mobile experience."
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "Metadata performance is perhaps the most neglected facet of storage performance. In previous articles we’ve looked into how best to improve metadata performance without too much luck. Could that be a function of the benchmark? Hmmm..."
<b>PC World:</b> "Kubuntu 10.4 ("Lucid Lynx") hit the servers late last week so I thought I'd upgrade. Plenty of people appear to have had a great upgrade experience. Mine was a nightmare. But few Linux disasters are unrecoverable. Here's how I got through mine ... albeit with a few outstanding issues."
<b>LinuxCommand.org:</b> "It's quite possible that a script that you wrote ten years ago still works perfectly well today. But even so, every few years the GNU Project releases a new version of bash."
<b>Computer Weekly Blog: </b>"Grynzpan reckons that Brazil has to find a unique selling proposition and its vast pool of knowledge in open source software could be the real advantage of the local IT industry."