By coincidence, I was looking into this this morning. Java DB is now being provided by a new set of packages called sun-javadb-*, but the old packages (that you mentioned) are still in the...
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By coincidence, I was looking into this this morning. Java DB is now being provided by a new set of packages called sun-javadb-*, but the old packages (that you mentioned) are still in the...
All popular modern programming languages are Object Orientated, so once you understand the concepts it is surprisingly easy to switch between them. Python, Ruby, C#, or Java are all OK. Perl, PHP,...
I suspect that part of the reason that the buzz has fallen off is that Rails is the only really big app for Ruby. Rails hasn't had a release in a while as the devs are working on Rails 2.0, and many...
Likewise. Good luck.
Canonical offer commercial support contracts:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
They also have partner programmes for training providers and ISVs, which may be of...
FWIW, the idea of a structured system for source compiles has been implemented by several projects, so I guess that it must be viable, although it may not be easy. FreeBSD (ports) and Gentoo...
I've just started playing with the Django framework, and am very impressed so far, particularly with the quality of the documentation. The package in the Ubuntu repository is for the previous...
Cloning isn't really necessary on Linux - you simply set up a central package repository on a server, and use the "answer file" functionality to automate the installation so that it pulls the correct...
If you haven't already, it's worth looking at "Sugar", the user interface designed for the OLPC machines:
"There are no software applications in the traditional sense on the laptop. The laptop...
I'm not sure whether it was there in previous versions, but Feisty has a package for Ruby Gems 0.9.0 ("rubygems", no hyphen), so you can now install it along with the main Ruby packages.
The bit...
tomt:
I've only dabbled, but the best method seems to be to install the basic ruby and ruby-gems packages supplied by the distribution, and then use the Ruby Gems package manager to fetch Rails...
TIOBE is kind of the Netcraft of programming languages (simplistic, but interesting):
http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
Java has been no. 1 according to their stats for a long time, but most of the...
If you aren't a fluent programmer than I'd vote for "Beginning Python" (Apress), which is absolutely excellent. If you look in /usr/share/doc/diveintopython/ in a default Ubuntu installation you'll...
Look into "triggers", a standard database feature which runs code when a condition occurs. Older versions of MySQL didn't support this feature.