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Sections: Main page Linux in the news Security Kernel Distributions Development Commerce Announcements Back page All in one big page See also: last week's Development page.	Development tools Java An Interactive Development Environment for Java has been occasionally requested on the java-linux mailing list. The usual answer has been emacs or xemacs with jde. One other free alternative, though, is AnyJ, currently at version 0.97 but reputed to be "the most promising IDE I've seen for Java", according to this note from Riyad Kalla. Other not-necessarily-free options mentioned included JBuilder, and WipeOut. Perl The fourth annual Obfuscated Perl Contest has been announced. "You were born into this. From the first day they swaddled you in scarlet silk blankets, put one of their own into the crib and stole you crying away into the black stillness of the forest, you have been in a school of previously unknown purpose. " Perl.com has a new look and feel. An introduction to the new site covers the new features and changes, including the promise of easier navigation, better searches, the new Perl Marketplace and a host of new features for the home page. Python Oliver Andrich, who has long put together an extensive RPM-based distribution of Python and related packages, has announced the creation of a mailing list for the discussion of the use of Python on Linux systems. He is clearly looking for some help with the Python packages, and we hope that he gets it. A new Italian Python Group has been formed. Here is their website. Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh	July 29, 1999

	Development projects Linux Graphic Applications get a good look in this LinuxWorld article by Joe Barr. CompuPic, gPhoto and blender are the applications he takes a look at this time, covering a range of product types, free, freeware and commercial. The upshot is basically good news for Linux, which is gaining a wide variety of useful tools. Here are some of his comments on each product: CompuPic: "The thing that impresses me most about CompuPic for Linux is its speed. " gPhoto: "And, speaking of beta, I got two e-mails this past week alerting me to the fact that gPhoto now has beta code for my digital camera, the Minolta Dimage. Keep in mind that the Minolta Dimage is one of my favorite toys. My dependence on Windows software to download images from it was one of the things that kept me dual-booting for so long. So you can imagine my excitement when I heard the news." blender: "Don't take my failings as a graphic artist or my lack of skill with Blender as negatives. Blender is very, very popular with the graphic artists who use it." The Berlin Consortium proudly announced Berlin 0.1.0, an experimental windowing system which makes heavy use of CORBA for transparent interprocess control. The Game ToolChest (GTC) project has been announced by SEUL. It plans to develop an LGPL library to support 3D game development. In fact, gtc-0.2 is available for download. Ganymede 0.99.5 has been announced. "This release includes more stability and refinement improvments than any single Ganymede release in quite a long time. This release feels a lot more like a 1.0 release than any other so far. Ganymede is a Java-based network directory management system, released under the GPL. Gnome Here is lastweek's GNOME summary by Havoc Pennington. It contains some updated information on several packages, including Gnomba, the new Gnome Samba browser, the GnomeHack game, and GConf ("This is like the Windows "registry," only without the bad parts. :-)" In addition, you'll find a report from the GNOME booth at the IBM Solutions '99 by Peter Teichman. The third edition of the Gnomish Bi-Weekly News is also out, hosted by LinuxPower. KDE Navindra Umanee's KDE development reports for last week and this week are both available. Java for KDE is a big topic this week, along with the current release schedule for KDE 1.1.2, which appears to be about four weeks out. Midgard The Midgard Weekly Summary for July 28th is available. It contains a report from their first IRC meeting, a pointer to tutorial on debugging Midgard, and updates on binary packages for Red Hat and Debian systems. Wine The latest Wine Weekly News is for July 20th is available. Zope The Zope Weekly News for July 28th is now available. The big news this week, of course, was the release of Zope 2.0 beta 1, which is available for download. Also new this week, though, is a total makeover for the Zope website. Check it out! The first release of the Zope XML Document module has been announced. This is a slick-looking tool which allows the use of XML objects within Zope. Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh
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