As has been mentioned a few times during the RAD Studio launch events, we’re releasing the Subversion implementation of the Delphi and C++Builder XE VersionInsight API to open source, both to allow people to extend it, but also to serve as an example on how to implement the API for other version control tools.
There was a discussion on the ADUG list recently about Initialization sections. During the discussion I mentioned a technique for stepping through all the Initialization and Finalization sections in your project.
Afterward, I got a few emails from people saying they had not heard of it before, so I thought I’d do up a short video to show how it works. Read On…
You may have thought that Spain won the world cup, but according to sitepoint.com, it was the JQuery: Novice to Ninja ebook. Go here to grab it quickly, as the 24 hours started some time back and I’m not sure when it expires.
I’ve been watching two lectures from UC Berkeley’s CS61A course, on MapReduce in general and (in the second lecture) Hadoop specifically. If you’re looking for a good, deep kick-starter on both the concepts and the implementation, I’d recommend them. They’re a little dry (hey, they are university CS lectures), and you’ll need to focus on them as they move relatively quickly, but they reward the concentration with, I think, a really good launching point for playing with Hadoop. The lectures are up on YouTube here and here, but note there is a download link so you can watch them offline.
The C++Builder Developer’s Journal have made their latest issue free and open to everyone to download. It focuses on more recent features that maybe people haven’t had time to play with, and includes articles on Datasnap 2010 by Bob Swart, Unicode migration by Josh Kelley, changing the default C++Builder directory by Curtis Krauskopf, multi-touch by ByeongCheol Nam and Ki-Tae Bae, and porting from BCB6 to CB2010 by Curtis Krauskopf
The CDJ guys put a significant amount of work into each issue, so if any of the above grab your interest please go and show your support by downloading the issue.
You can find it here http://bcbjournal.org/?loc=special or here http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/27769