Slashdot: DevelopersNews for nerds, stuff that mattersSun's Java Will Be Free This Year- June 23, 2008 Ian Whyde notes that Sun is finally coming to the end of its struggle to open up Java completely. Simon Phipps, the chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems, said: "There were a couple of holdouts there. One was the area to do with raster graphics and 2D graphics. That turned out to be owned by a company that didn't want us to release that code as open source. We negotiated with them and because they've said 'yes, you can open source the code'... The only element that's left now is...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/317970966/article.pl UK Games Industry Over the Hill- June 20, 2008 Tinkle writes "A games industry campaign group has warned the UK is falling behind on coding skills because university courses are not up to scratch. But this article includes an interview with an industry coding veteran who believes a lack of creative home computing hardware (think: Atari ST) is more likely to be at the root of the skills shortage, and explains why Britain's games coders are getting a bit long-in-the-tooth."Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/316109369/article.pl Subversion 1.5.0 Released- June 19, 2008 Hyrum writes "The Subversion team is proud to announce the release of Subversion 1.5.0, a popular open source version control system. The first new feature release of Subversion in almost 2 years, 1.5.0 contains a number of new improvements and features. A detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes. Among the major new features included in this release is merge tracking—Subversion now keeps track of what changes have been merged where. Source code is available immediately,.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/315665798/article.pl IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit- June 19, 2008 emyar writes "At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology. ... This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone — The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). This means that it...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/315609293/article.pl Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing- June 18, 2008 Aeonite writes "Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing is the followup to Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames, and the second book written by members of the Game Writers' Special Interest Group of the 14,000 member strong IGDA. The book covers much of the same terrain as its predecessor, but offers a tighter focus on some specific points, covering more technical (as in technique) details rather than broader narrative theory; if the first book was a Google Map, this one would...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/314771030/article.pl |