Development

一直以为自己能够调试所有的程序，因为我一直以能够不依赖IDE调试，用一组assert，printf就能改掉别人花几个礼拜也没办法track down的东西，然而今天JDK让我折服了，用Java写的程序，如果没有IDE，简直就不具备可调试性！

Rumor said that the GB18030 standardization working committee has been disbanded some weeks ago, and GB (Q) 18030-2000 standard is pending to be abandoned soon. In addition, the new identity card system developed by the Ministry of Public Security has been stuck because of Chinese coding problem.

It’s our pleasure to see GCC 3.4 import to be listed in FreeBSD 5.3-R todo list. Unfortunatelly, gmake is now a required prerequisite when building GCC 3.4, this may slow down the import progress.

It’s a common practise to choose a prime number as the hast table size. This article has analyzed Java’s implementation.

Well I finally can get this into my blog because Microsoft has publicly announced it :-) The information got from my friend has finally confirmed, and this is really exciting!!

On Thursday night, MySQL published a license exception that, the company said, permits PHP to resume its previous practice of bundling MySQL components called libraries, said Zack Urlocker, MySQL’s vice president of marketing.
– http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5173014.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

It’s the latest NetBSD stable RELEASE. This version is dedicated to Erik Reid, a NetBSD developer who contributed many MIPS related port efforts, as well as the XFree86 DRI interface, and were dead in an sailing accident in February 18, 2004.

This is really insteresting one. With an “advertised” shell link, Windows Installer will automatically executed to install on demand.

Under a more restrictive licence, the XFree86 project has finally released the long-awaited XFree86 4.4.0-RELEASE. Well, this is really a big news, however, the licence (Yes you guys may say that it is very similiar to the BSD Licence with four clause, however it is not, and more importantly, this is more like the ancient four clause one, which was replaced by a new three-caluse one, and most BSDers will prefer a two clause one like the following:

Today I was consulted with the above question. In a C# program, we don’t have a “MyBase” keyword, however, we have a __base __keyword. A c-tor is a special case, in C#, the syntax is more like C++.