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To make Linux applications usable worldwide -- with no inequity between Western dialects and languages around the world -- you must be able to input, store, retrieve, and render any language, no matter how complex. The multilingualization library, or m17n, provides a single solution for all languages on UNIX-like platforms.

Explore technical issues in video playback, and see how a blend of hardware and software achieves good performance at a reasonable cost. Learn how to show movies on a scriptable, network connected appliance. Also, Lewin Edwards reveals that MP3 does not mean MPEG-3, which alone is worth the price of admission.

Learn to create an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) client-side slide show that's animated using "Ken Burns Effects." Here, you discover how to build XML data sources for Ajax, request XML data from the client, and then dynamically create and animate HTML elements with that XML.

Hybrid SoCs employing PA technology-based software interfacing to highly customized hardware state machines can help designers unlock the power of application-specific hardware acceleration. Continuing the SoC drawer series, this article provides an overview of on-chip debug hardware and software tools to make SoC design, implementation, and test easier.

Version control systems or source configuration systems (SCM) is one of the most important tools you probably didn't learn in school, mainly because without one an accident is inevitable. In this article get an overview of SCM, including its benefits and architecture, CVS, Subversion, Arch, Git, and a compare and contrast of new approaches to earlier methods.

Even casual Ajax developers will notice the x in Ajax, and realize that it stands for XML. In this article, you'll see how servers can send XML in response to a request. XML is one of the most popular data formats in any programming medium, and offers real advantages for server responses in asynchronous applications.

Using a trusted context in an application can improve security by placing accountability at the middle-tier, reducing over granting of privileges, and auditing of end-user's activities. Learn how to implement trusted context on DB2 in a command line interface (CLI), XA, or Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)-based application.

Writing logically repeatable tests is especially tricky when testing Web applications that incorporate a servlet container. Now you can write logically repeatable system tests every time with the introduction of Cargo, an open source framework that automates container management in generic fashion.

Make data synchronization easier with the new JFace data binding application programming interface (API). In Part 1 of the “Understanding JFace data binding in Eclipse” series, learn the basic API components and the pros and cons of data binding. In Part 2 dive in deeper to learn the core components of the JFace data binding API and more advanced topics such as tables, converters, and validation.

The POWER5 processor is a 64-bit workhorse used in a variety of settings. Part 1 of this Assembly language for Power Architecture series is an introduction to assembly language concepts and the PowerPC instruction set. The series as a whole will introduce assembly language in general, specifically language programming for the POWER5.

Imagine a computer formed from a mixture of technologies ranging from relays to fluidic logic. Now imagine being able to create your own single masterpiece of such a computer, in the technology of your choice, using the Internet to run it in conjunction with other portions of the system created around the world! In Part 1 of the HRRG series learn the creation of just such a computing engine and how you can be involved.

Much of today’s enterprise-level software on Unix is large, multi-threaded, and multi-process, so porting it to Linux presents challenges. In this article, look at a real-world port of enterprise-level software to Linux as a checklist and for advice.

Create secure server applications with OpenSSL; its documentation makes it look intimidating, but it's actually rather simple. In Part 3 of this three-part series learn how to build a secure server app by building on the concepts from Part 1 for creating a basic secure client, and by going in depth in Part 2 about digital certificates.

As an MP3 and MPEG player, the Hauppauge MediaMVP lets you play digital media through your television set. It is the smallest, and on of the least expensive, non-handheld Linux systems out there. Go inside this tightly purposed embedded device, exemplifying compact Linux implementation on minimal hardware.

In its simplest form, WMQ is provides reliable messages exchange between two end points. When Informix applications use WMQ, you write custom code, manage multiple connections, and route data through your application. Now you can simplify MQing with Informix Dynamic Server V10 UC3. It has built-in support for interaction between Informix and WMQ using SQL callable functions with two-phase commit support.

The OpenPower program offers free remote access to servers running 64-bit Linux on POWER5 processors. In Part 1 of the series, learn the process of getting access to a system and compiling applications for it, focusing on issues unique to "guest" software development without root privileges. In Part 2, he reviews code and data portability issues providing concrete examples to answer why porting is even hard. In Part 3 look at types of issues involved with portability from one architecture to another and contrast APIs with hardware interfaces.

This article provides step-by-step instructions for configuring connectivity to remote DB2 instances using DB2 Enterprise Stage. In addition, the authors compare the performance of DB2 API Stage with DB2 Enterprise Stage running in the same environment.

[Anyone running DB2? - dcparris]

The wxWidgets toolkit contains powerful, cross-platform tools for graphical user interface (GUI) development. In addition to its native C++, several languages offer wrappers for use with the toolkit. Learn how to use the wxWidgets toolkit to create elegant and highly useful GUIs in your programming language of choice.

In this tutorial (the fourth in a series of nine tutorials on exam 102 topics), Ian Shields introduces you to Linux documentation. Learn how to use and manage local documentation, find documentation on the Internet, and use automated logon messages to notify users of system events.

Groovy's concise syntax frees developers from typical Java constructs that are required for code compilation but don't facilitate expressing what a program is really trying to accomplish. In this revival of the Practically Groovy series, focus on the important aspects of coding as Groovy developer J. Scott Hickey walks you through a series of comparisons between the exciting language normal Java code and the same Groovy code.