Wow! This one caught me off guard. I can certainly expect something like this from a software company that is fighting against the big fish in the pond, but I did not expect something like this in the computer chip market. I wonder if this has anything to do with Apple's decision to use Intel for their product line going forward?
Read the CNET News.com article for more information.
Eclipse.org released the latest version of the Eclipse development environment at JavaOne yesterday. Much of the excitement regarding Eclipse 3.1 centered on the Rich Client Platform upon which you can build very professional looking applications.
The Rich Client Platform has been greatly enhanced in this version of Eclipse. The system has improved performance, expanded tool support, bettery support for Java Web Start (JNLP), and Visual Editor support.
For more information and a podcast on the launch, check out this story on Between the Lines.
I am not sure what exactly happened today at Blogger, but my mother emailed me asking about my blog and why the Blogroll was gone. I took a look and the template had reverted to the default and lost my changes at some point in the past 36 hours. It is fixed now.
Eclipse.org has also released the first release candidate for the CDT (C/C++ Development Tools) Project. This is an excellent plugin development environment for Eclipse that gives full C/C++ development and debugging capabilities. CDT 3.0 RC0 runs under Eclipse 3.1 M7 and later.
Eclipse.org has released the Eclipse 3.1 RC3 development environment for all platforms. The environment seems to be getting quicker and more stable with each RC release at this point.
God took one of his children home tonight. My father's sister, Lillian Parker, was taken to be with God tonight. She had a really bad heart attack Saturday and was put in the hospital.
My parents went to see her earlier today. My mother said that she looked quite bad with only about 20% functionality in her heart. My father called just a little while ago to give me the news and said that he knew it was just a matter of time earlier today, because she seemed to be just holding on... just like her mother did so many years ago when I was young.
My aunt was a life long member of Harmony Baptist Church in a small, unincorporated area of Blount county in Alabama. She always laughed and smiled when I saw her. Her laugh was always infectious. She was definitely a special lady.
Please pray for my family in this time of mourning, but please do not shed a tear, for she is in no longer suffering and she is much happier than we could ever be, because she is laughing and singing with her mother, Jesus, and having a wonderful fellowship with God, The Father!
I recently started playing around with C++, partly because I wanted to work with a cross-platform language other than Java that I could use on my Windows based laptop and my PowerPC Mac. I have been a developer for 16+ years, but working with C++ has me feeling like I am a new programmer again.
I have been struggling with virtual methods, abstract classes, and templates. I am currently stuck on a situation where I have a pure abstract class defined that I want to use in a collection to represent one of three different derived classes, but I seem to be getting some compile errors where I use it.
At least I am not getting paid like a new developer again. I would go hungry. :)
