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  1. Static analysis of C# on Expert Delivery Using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are there are open source tools to do static analysis of C#? It seems like it should be pretty straightforward to check unused code, idempotent operations, etc... you'd need a lexer, a parser, an AST generator, a symbol table, and maybe some data flow analysis. Then you could crank out whatever rules you wanted.

    Seems both useful and doable, but Googling a bit only turned up commercial tools...

  2. Re:Did you consider.... on The New C Standard · · Score: 4, Informative

    > You could also consider "self-publishing"

    Right on! You can get a run of 1000 copies of a soft cover book printed by someone like BookMasters for $5K or so, even for a monster like this one. Just stick with a 4 color cover and black/white in the text. And if you can charge $40 or so for this tome, you can cover your printing costs after selling only 150 copies.

    [plug]
    That's what I'm doing with PMD Applied; seems to be working out well so far.
    [/plug]

  3. Re:How about Flash? on Getting Started with Game Development? · · Score: 2, Informative

    > ActionScript has become o very powerful language

    Right on, and with the addition of a good open source component framework, it's only getting better. MTASC + ActionStep == good times.

  4. Hey, Columba is on the PMD scoreboard... on Columba Developers Interview · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...scoreboard is here, Columba report is here. Not too bad, although there's some room for cleanup...

    Oh, and the duplicate code report is here.

  5. Jabber server on FC4 on Fedora Core 4 Reviewer Finds It Bloated · · Score: 1

    Anyone had any luck with running Jabberd on FC4? I kept getting segfaults, backtrace is here. Never did figure out what was wrong, but falling back to FC3 "fixed" it.

    Also, if anyone wants to set up Jabberd to log to PostgreSQL, I've put some notes on that here. It includes notes on using Ruby's ActiveRecord with that setup too, good times...

  6. Helixcommunity on Real Quietly Releases More Code as Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...is the largest public GForge server in the world.

    There's a picture of their server rack as of a year or so ago right here.

  7. Full release notes... on PCGen 5.8 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...are here. They weren't kidding about lots of bugs getting closed with this release!

  8. Tweak either Apache or MySQL... on Maureen O'Gara No Longer Welcome at LinuxWorld · · Score: 1, Interesting
    ...MaxClients or max_user_connections to avoid:
    Warning: mysql_connect(): User groklaw has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /public/vhost/g/groklaw/system/databases/mysql.cla ss.php on line 108
    Cannnot connect to DB server
  9. Re:Uhh... on Patents Role in US/AU Gov't Use of Open Source? · · Score: 1

    > The U.S. Government? Using Open Source
    > Software? Umm...maybe you don't
    > follow U.S. corpolitics?

    How did this get modded 'Insightful'? Not only does the U.S. government use open source software, but they sponsor it, too.

  10. Re:high costs? on The Open-Source Detector · · Score: 1

    There's a copy/paste detector that works with Java, C, PHP, and Ruby here.

    But, like some other folks have said, the hard part is keeping all the open source code handy for comparison purposes...

  11. Re:Nice to see folks getting credit... on The Linux Kernel Archives · · Score: 1

    > 80GB. Per month?

    Yup, although now with the mirrors in place the system is doing about 200 GB per month.

  12. Nice to see folks getting credit... on The Linux Kernel Archives · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...especially having dealt with something like this (on a much smaller scale) recently.

    We were having bandwidth limitations on RubyForge; it was getting up to 80 GB per month at the end of 2004. Mirroring out releases helped get usage back down to 15 GB per month. Many thanks to our mirror providers!

  13. There are a bunch of papers on Tree-SSA... on A Review of GCC 4.0 · · Score: 1

    ...on Diego's web site here.

  14. Re:OT: hello on Firefox nears 50 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    > we decided to spend our budgeted
    > documentation hours on WikiWork

    Very, very cool. I'm working on a Ruby extension on work hours too; it's pretty cool to be able to do so.

    > Now I feel guilty for reading /.

    Bill it as "networking" :-)

  15. Re:OT: hello on Firefox nears 50 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Hi MarkusQ -
    Right on! Hey, looks like you're doing a lot on the ROR wiki; good times!

  16. Over on... on Firefox nears 50 Million Downloads · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ...RubyForge it's mostly Mozilla/Firefox too:
    gforge=> select browser, count(browser) from activity_log group by browser;
    browser | count
    ---------+--------
    OPERA | 240
    OTHER | 167539
    MOZILLA | 251311
    IE | 73724
  17. Re:AOP has its uses (without going to production!) on Aspect-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    Go Brian! +1 Informative!

    See you at the NovaJUG mtg on Tuesday, if you're going to it...

  18. I wonder if they're seeing any patent issues... on Reports from the MySQL Users Conference · · Score: 1

    ...after all, the recent PostgreSQL 8.0.2 release included a cache management algorithm replacement due to a patent.

  19. To avert a flamewar... on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...please note that Dianne Feinstein, a prominent Democrat, is a co-sponsor.

  20. Re:Really poor job on Turing's Original Test Played First Time Ever · · Score: 1

    > How could anybody be fooled by this?

    [sarcasm]
    You fool! You'll never get a PhD in computer science with this attitude! As penance, you must write a long, rambling essay about "consciousness" and "what is thinking, really" and "semantic content".
    [/sarcasm]

  21. Re:Help me out here... on Turing's Original Test Played First Time Ever · · Score: 1

    > Still the same 'turn the question around
    > on the asker' type of engines.

    Right, and in this case there seems to be an additional smoke screen of "at what point is the guy pretending he's a girl replaced by a bot".

    But what does that really add (except obfuscation) to the basic problem of getting a computer program to simulate intelligence?

  22. Re:Are we in the deep south here? on What Makes a Good Design Document? · · Score: 1

    > we are still developing systems based
    > on 19th organizational princples.

    Sir, I salute you. Great post. If only you had posted earlier so that more folks could have seen this...

  23. Document the choices on What Makes a Good Design Document? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't document every function and class. That's useless; let Doxygen or Javadoc do that.

    Instead, document why you chose PostgreSQL over [foo]. Why you chose to roll your own templating system. Why you fork off jobs in a separate process rather than doing them in one process. Why you wrote this particular thingy as a C extension.

    Documenting that stuff will be helpful to folks down the road when requirements/environments/whatever changes and they wonder why things were done this way in the first place.

  24. "What is software design?" on What Makes a Good Design Document? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the classic article by Jack Reeves.

  25. Re:Bricolage is mentioned... on Small but Mighty:The Bricolage Story · · Score: 1

    Argh, yeah, I was bummed too. Ah well...