LinuxProgramming Weekend Roundup — May 6, 2001

LinuxProgramming Links for May 6, 2001
Compiled by Michael
Hall

Here’s a rundown of all the release information, articles, and
tutorials for the weekend from LinuxProgramming. Your chance to
catch up on all the latest news from LProg in one place.

Today’s Links:

• Libraries
• Articles and Tutorials

Libraries:

• GNOME: New release of GTK+ libraries (1.3.5)
  
  http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-05-001-06-LT

  “This is a an unstable preview release and should not be used in
  production. Only minimal testing has been done, and we expect that
  significant bugs and portability problems remain at this point.”
  This announcement covers GTK+, GLib, Pango, and ATK.

• GNOME: Release of a new set of XML/XSLT libraries
  
  http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-04-001-06-LT

  “Speed wise I have made clear progresses, testing with a
  non-trivial example (the XML version of the XML specification on a
  700Mzh box) libxml2 consume 8MB/s using SAX, 3MB/s with DOM build
  and 1.5MB/s for DOM + validation. The XSLT implementation is now as
  fast or even faster than Microsoft implementation depending on the
  testcases.”

Articles and Tutorials:

• IBM developerWorks: Zope for the Perl/CGI programmer
  
  http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-06-001-06-LT-PL-ZP

  “This article is aimed at Perl/CGI programmers who are ready to
  take Zope for a spin. There’s plenty in the way of comparison and
  contrast between the two, and some conclusions about which might be
  best depending on your situation.

• IBM developerWorks: Cultured Perl: One-liners 101
  
  http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-06-002-06-ID-PL

  Nothing stirs envy in the breast more than a talkback raconteur
  with a handy one-liner in Perl that solves a problem addressed by
  much larger shell scripts or full-blown applications. This tutorial
  introduces some one-liner basics through use of file-renaming
  operations and other tasks you may be used to performing in the
  shell.

• KDE.org: Tutorial: Extending the KDE Panel
  
  http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-06-003-06-ID-CP

  Aspiring KDE programmers may be interested in this tutorial by none
  other than Matthias Elter. Over the course of this guide to writing
  applets for kicker, he provides code snippets, tips, and plenty of
  useful information on the way to writing a KDE version of the
  venerable “15 pieces” game.