Over time, XML has permeated many niches. One area where XML is used increasingly is in the configuration of graphical user interfaces, especially in elements that are persistent but should not be fixed at compile-time. In this installment, David looks at the use of XML in Mac OS X’s Aqua GUI, and in the K Desktop Environment (KDE) which is either standard or available in most modern Linux distributions.
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Mac OS X Panther includes many updated developer tools. Among them is an enhanced version of Python 2.3 with its own SWIG-based bindings to the CoreGraphics library. Creating PDFs, JPEGs, and documents in other graphical formats just became a lot easier.
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After designing a few databases for clients, you’ll likely start to see design similarities. Why not exploit those patterns to create templates for further customization? Russell Dyer demonstrates how to create and customize generic MySQL table templates.
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From How Much Information? 2003:
Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002.
interesting article on perl.com: Perl hashes make set membership easy at the cost of memory usage. A lesser-known technique, Bloom filters, trades a tunable false-positive rate for compactness — and has interesting applications for privacy concerns. Maciej Ceglowski explains the theory and practice of Bloom filters.