Pain and Glory from the Trenches of the IT World

I read today a blog article about the greatly-increased complexity of ECMAScript 4, relative to earlier versions. Indeed, the number of features is quite staggering. And the first thing it made me think of was C++.

C is a relatively small language. That’s understandable, considering it was initially developed for system-level programming on computers with rather minimal resources. Soon enough, Stroustrup and others developed C++, adding a variety of higher-level constructs to C. Over time, C++ has grown to be a rather complex beast.

GIMP 2.4 was recently released. Although I do very little image manipulation, GIMP is one of the more widely used open source applications, thus I like to keep up to date with its developments.

One of the first things I went to check out after reading of the release was the screenshots section of their web page. I have to say, it was a very disappointing experience.

Kubuntu 7.10 RC was announced as available several days ago. I installed it immediately, and I have to say, I’m very impressed! Although it’s still just a release candidate, it has all of the necessary ingredients: stability, responsiveness, innovation and coherency.

While other articles will no doubt focus on the many benefits that Kubuntu 7.10 will bring, I’d like to look forward into the future. Namely, this is because of the upcoming release of KDE 4, which is currently planned for December 11, 2007.

About a month ago, I considered the factors that were holding back one open source project with much potential, Parrot. Today I will do the same for another open source project: .