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Thaler, the president and chief executive of Imagination Engines Inc. in Maryland Heights, gets credit for all those things, but he’s really just “the man behind the curtain,” he says. The real inventor is a computer program called a Creativity Machine.
Project:Omega – Books – Developers Books – Mac OS X – version 10.3 : Panther for developers
Welcome to Mac OS X v10.3: Panther for developers.
This guide tries to summarize and gather in one single document everything you should know in order to get started with Mac OS X v10.3. It will help you discover all the new features, applications and APIs added to Panther.
Once you have had this overview, you should be ready to pick the best technologies (those which suits the best your needs, in fact) and get more in-depth help and documentation through Apple’s Developer Site (developer.apple.com) and Xcode.
Batik is a Java(tm) technology based toolkit for applications or applets that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as viewing, generation or manipulation.
Joel on Software – Getting Your Resume Read
Joel from Fog Creek writes:
I’ve been going through a big pile of applications for the summer internship positions at Fog Creek Software, and, I don’t know how to say this, some of them are really, really bad. This is not to say that the applicants are stupid or unqualified, although they might be. I’m never going to find out, because when I have lots of excellent applications for only two open positions, there’s really no need to waste time interviewing people that can’t be bothered to spell the name of my company right.
Seems like a very active community developing some nifty open source projects (look for CLEW on a screen near you).
Thanks to Hans for the link:
Speech by Richard Stallman at Cambridge University,
25 March 2002
You might have been familiar with my work on free software. This
speech is not about that. This speech is about a way of misusing laws
to make software development a dangerous activity. This is about what
happens when patent law gets applied to the field of software.
It is not about patenting software. That is a very bad way, a
misleading way, to describe it, because it is not a matter of patenting
individual programs. If it were, it would make no difference, it would
be basically harmless. Instead, it is about patenting ideas. Every
patent covers some idea. Software patents are patents which cover
software ideas, ideas which you would use in developing software. That
is what makes them a dangerous obstacle to all software development.
Looking for J2ME devices? You’ve come to the right place.
The Nokia 6620 imaging phone offers advanced messaging capabilities. The integrated camera lets users record video clips as well as capture VGA (640 x 480-pixel) images. The ability to share images and messages via Multimedia Message Service (MMS), e-mail, infrared, and Bluetooth makes the Nokia 6620 phone suitable for both mobile lifestyle and business applications.
Developers will also appreciate the Nokia 6620 phone’s use of the latest in mobile technology, including support for Java‚Ñ¢ MIDP 2.0 applications, MMS, XHTML content, and high-speed content (over EDGE). The Nokia 6620 phone is a tri-band device developed for the Americas market; data carrier support is CSD, GPRS, EGPRS, and EDGE. Note that messaging functions, Java application downloads, XHTML browsing, and high-speed access all require operator and network support.
Optimizing Image Processing With vImage
From the site:
vImage is Appleís image processing framework. It includes high-level functions for image manipulationóconvolutions, geometric transformations, histogram operations, morphological transformations, and alpha compositingóas well as utility functions for format conversions and other operations.