Thursday, June 22, 2006

Hop 1.4.0 (Default branch). Hop is a new programming language designed for the Web 2.0. It is a higher-order language for programming interactive Web applications such as Web agendas, Web galleries, music players, etc. It can be viewed as a replacement for traditional graphical toolkits and is implemented as a Web server. It features an extensive set of widgets for programming fancy GUIs and an libraries for handling database access, network connections, parsing Wiki documents, and for supporting protocols and formats such as IMAP, iCal, EXIF, ID3, and XML. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Many bugs were fixed, including some in the Hop->JavaScript compiler. This version successfully compiles to native code (on Linux platforms) and to JVM bytecode and is operational on Mac OS X. [freshmeat.net announcements (Global)] comment []2:01:27 PM

News: Music player sales drive shortage of NAND flash. The soaring popularity of MP3 music players is driving demand for NAND flash memory chips faster than suppliers can keep up, according to a Gartner study, and it could get even worse if Apple releases higher-capacity flash-based iPods. [Macworld] comment []12:21:51 AM

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