Month: September 2011
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Ruby: String#split on empty pattern or string
RDoc Documentation [ruby-doc.org] “Funny” feature, actually only for wierdos: If pattern is a Regexp, str is divided where the pattern matches. Whenever the pattern matches a zero-length string, str is split into individual characters. If pattern contains groups, the respective matches will be returned in the array as well.
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ImageMagick for Mac OS X Lion: Install from Source / Unix
ImageMagick: Install from Source I had to choose this way, as the binary release left me with an “identify” utility, that didn’t even properly recognize a JPEG file. And fink currently doesn’t support ImageMagick for Lion. My little differences: export MAGICK_HOME=”/usr/local/ImageMagick” ./configure –prefix=$MAGICK_HOME the ldconfig command is not available on OS X resp. Lion, and apparently…
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Apple updates malware definition list to defend against PDF trojan – The H Security: News and Features
Apple updates malware definition list to defend against PDF trojan – The H Security: News and Features: Apple has added another entry to its XProtect malware signature list to defend against a new Mac trojan that masquerades as a PDF and installs a backdoor on victim’s systems
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Clojure 1.3 more Maven friendly – The H Open Source: News and Features
Clojure 1.3 more Maven friendly – The H Open Source: News and Features: The Clojure team has released version 1.3 of its dynamic programming language for the JVM; this includes new functionality, should offer better performance and supports compilation and deployment with Maven
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Advance updates for CentOS 6.1 – The H Open Source: News and Features
Advance updates for CentOS 6.1 – The H Open Source: News and Features: The CentOS project has set up a package repository for CentOS 6.0 to provide security updates and bug fixes from the as yet unreleased version 6.1
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Ruby 1.9.3 approaches with RC1 – The H Open Source: News and Features
Ruby 1.9.3 approaches with RC1 – The H Open Source: News and Features: The first release candidate for Ruby 1.9.3, which changes the open source programming language’s licence and improves loading performance, has been released for testing. Provided no serious problems are found, the final version could arrive within two weeks
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Ten years of the Lucene search engine at Apache – The H Open Source: News and Features
Ten years of the Lucene search engine at Apache – The H Open Source: News and Features: The Apache Software Foundation is celebrating ten years of the full text search engine Lucene being under its umbrella. In those ten years Lucene has become a major development power house for the Foundation
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Jaspersoft BI Suite 4.2 includes support for mobile devices – The H Open Source: News and Features
Jaspersoft BI Suite 4.2 includes support for mobile devices – The H Open Source: News and Features: Version 4.2 of the business intelligence suite brings a mobile BI iOS software development kit, as well as a BI environment with support for touch-screen devices like the iPad