Cafyn » software http://cafyn.com Like Twitter, just longer. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:58:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Why iPhone apps are so cheap: http://www… http://cafyn.com/e/288 http://cafyn.com/e/288#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:16:05 +0000 kahwee http://cafyn.com/e/288 Why iPhone apps are so cheap: http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2009/07/13/my-iphones-not-cheap-but-my-apps-are/

]]> http://cafyn.com/e/288/feed 0 PHP 5.3 has been released! http://www.ph… http://cafyn.com/e/268 http://cafyn.com/e/268#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:20:17 +0000 kahwee http://cafyn.com/e/268 PHP 5.3 has been released! http://www.php.net/archive/2009.php#id2009-06-30-1

This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

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://cafyn.com/e/268/feed 0 TextMate author explains what he’s been… http://cafyn.com/e/195 http://cafyn.com/e/195#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:26:31 +0000 kahwee http://cafyn.com/e/195 TextMate author explains the progress of TextMate 2: http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/

]]> http://cafyn.com/e/195/feed 1 Open source software used in Palm Pre: … http://cafyn.com/e/108 http://cafyn.com/e/108#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:29:03 +0000 kahwee http://cafyn.com/e/108 Open source software used in Palm Pre (as seen in http://newcome.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/list-of-open-source-software-used-in-the-pre/ ):

  1. Apache
  2. Prototype JavaScript Framework
  3. Flex
  4. Bzip2
  5. Openssl
  6. Curl

  7. SSLeay
  8. Libpcap
  9. Fontconfig
  10. libxml2
  11. Bitstream Vera Fonts
  12. Uriparser
  13. Giflib
  14. Ksoap
  15. Poly9’s polyvalent URLParser class
  16. Wbxml.java , Wbxmlparser.java , and WbxmlSerializer.java
  17. Liboil
  18. stlport
  19. Sudo
  20. lcu
  21. Dhcp-client
  22. NTP
  23. PPP
  24. libxslt except libexslt
  25. jpeg-6b
  26. Expat
  27. c-ares
  28. Freetype
  29. Putty
  30. Dropbear
  31. Ncurses
  32. Md5
  33. Libpng
  34. Strace
  35. zlib
  36. Datejs
  37. libspeex
  38. speex
  39. Cairo
  40. libunwind
  41. Wpa_supplicant
  42. Pmipclib
  43. tiff
  44. JSON-C
  45. JSON
  46. AGG
  47. The Legion Of The Bouncy Castle
  48. script.aculo.us
  49. Jemalloc
  50. Npruntime.h
  51. The wxWindows Library Licence
  52. dbus
  53. Host AP
  54. File-backed USB Storage Gadget
  55. SQLiteJDBC
  56. libvorbis
  57. libogg
  58. VLGothic Proportional Japanese Font
  59. Minifier
  60. CJK Unicode TrueType Fonts
  61. JArgs command line option parsing suite for Java
]]> http://cafyn.com/e/108/feed 0 Baboons that can program prefer VB.NET? … http://cafyn.com/e/82 http://cafyn.com/e/82#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:08:34 +0000 kahwee http://cafyn.com/e/82 Baboons that can program prefer VB.NET? Sounds absurd but since it’s on the internet it must be true.

Dr. James McAuliffe of the Stamford school of Zoology performed a series of experiments on the baboons using laptop computers. What he discovered was amazing. His findings were reported in the Journal of American Zoology this month.

“Baboons and chimpanzees can use computers, do software testing, and even program,” explained Dr. McAuliffe. But they had some problems handling simple menu navigation. “Higher primates are very intelligent, but we found that they had problems with deeply nested menus. We found that these animals had trouble with multi-way branches beyond 2 levels. At first, these primates simply could not repeat a multi-way menu navigation.”

After simple training in Windows® menu navigation, McAuliffe presented the baboons with modern development tools. Predictably, they were baffled by anything to do with modern Java IDEs such as SunONE®, Visual Age® and Jbuilder®. None of the animals understood the Java programming language, even the ‘alpha’ animals.

However, most subjects immediately understood Visual Basic 3.0, and even displayed some comprehension of the VB3 debugger and simple VB data types. Most subjects could change properties of custom controls in the Properties window, and displayed some understanding of advanced concepts such as read-only properties.

Hey Ridzuan, you should see this:

Test subjects with the best results were baboons and bonobo apes. Both primate species demonstrated stressful behaviors when presented with Java tools and utilities.

It’s okay I can get stress too, haha…

http://www.newtechusa.com/PPI/pressroom.asp#higher

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