OpenOffice released its new 3.0 version of the software suite on Monday. The 3.0 version of OpenOffice makes it more extensible for users, allowing them to add third-party features from an OpenOffice.org repository. The Writer application can now handle the editing of multiple pages at the same time. Calc application supports larger spreadsheets. 3.0 also [...]
Google, Inc. announced on Wednesday the availability of Google Map Maker in RP.
Google Product Marketing Manager for Asia Pacific Jason Chuck said “Google Map Maker is a tool based on Google Maps where users can interface to solve key problems.”
The release of mrepo 0.8.6, with RHEL 4.7’s RHN/up2date code, has been announced by Dag Wieërs.
Some of the highlights include:
Support for RHEL5 and CentOS-5.
Added YaST Online Update support.
Added fuseiso support (root access no longer needed).
Added unionfs support to merge ISOs to a single tree.
Faster relinking of repositories.
Caching of directory indexes to prevent regenerating repositories.
Proxy-support for [...]
After almost a year of changes and improvements, the release of Solar version 1.0.0alpha2 has been announced. You can read more about 1.0.0alpha2 on Solar’s blog.
Lorenzo Alberton shares his thoughts on Zend Framework testing. He includes codes to emulate HTTP Calls. He used HTTP stub class instead to detach the models from the web services.
One of the unit testing best practices suggests to break dependencies, so you can test each component separately. The first problem that arises when you want [...]