The Eclipse SDK 4.0 had been released on July 28th, 2010 just two days ago. The goals for this release are to be the next generation platform for building eclipse-based tools and rich client desktop application. This new release makes it easier for developers to develop and assemble applications and tools based on the Eclipse platform.

This article will show you how to install Eclipse SDK 4.0 on Linux, in this I use Slackware 13.1.

First of all, I assume you already installed the Java Development Kit (JDK) in your system. If not you can follow my previous article on how to install JDK on Linux.

1. Download Eclipse SDK 4.0

Go to Eclipse Release Build: 4.0 download page. Select the Linux Platform, in this I use x86/GTK 2 Platform. Then click the (http) link in the download column, you will be redirected to a mirror site nearest to you.

2. Extract the file using tar tool

Once the file has been downloaded successfully, extract or untar using the tar tool as follow:

tar zxf eclipse-SDK-4.0-linux-gtk.tar.gz

3. Change to eclipse directory

After extracting the file, an eclipse directory should be created in your current working directory. Go to the eclipse directory.

cd eclipse

4. Run eclipse

Now it is the time to run the Eclipse SDK 4.0

./eclipse

That’s it. Below is the screenshot of Eclipse SDK 4.0 running on Linux Slackware 13.1

Eclipse SDK 4.0 Screenshot (click to enlarge)

I just downloaded the latest Zend Framework 1.10.6 to test creating web applications using Zend Framework. I have also already installed Netbeans 6.9 for writing Java and PHP codes. The operating system I use is Linux Slackware 13.1.

At the beginning, creating Zend projects are fine, meaning without encountered any warning/error messages. But after adding the Zend Framework to the Netbeans IDE, I could not create Zend web project. The error messages warned me that “PHP Warning:  include_once(NetBeansCommandsProvider.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/to/zend/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 146″

This is already reported and discussed in the Netbeans bugzilla. It seems to be zend’s bug. The .zf.ini file, located in your $HOME directory, generated by zend tools has a wrong configuration. If you check the content of the .zf.ini file, there is incorrect in ‘php.includepath’ which should be ‘php.include_path’.

To solve this, just open the .zf.ini file and change the ‘php.includepath’ to be ‘php.include_path’. That’s it. Now try to create a new project using zf.sh/zf.php in command line interface. The new project should be created without any errors.

$ php bin/zf.php create project testproject
Creating project at /path/to/zend/testproject
Note: This command created a web project, for more information setting up your VHOST, please see docs/README

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The Samsung Epic 4G also known as Samsung Galaxy S Pro for Sprint is arriving in the next few weeks. It is expected to be released on August 2010, should be a few weeks from now.

The device will run Android 2.1 (Eclair) but upgradable to Android 2.2 (Froyo), has 16MB colors super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, TouchWiz 3.0 UI, ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor, WIFI b/g/n and the WIMAX support.

In addition to WiMAX, the Samsung WiMAX phone will support existing Sprint’s 3G network, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1. The Epic 4G will be able to share its 4G or 3G Wireless Data connection with five other devices over Wi-Fi.

Another great features it will come with a suite of communication, entertainment, and productivity applications. Many of these will use Google services like YouTube and Gmail, but users will also be able to get their business mail through Microsoft Exchange.

Below is a hand-on look at the Samsung Galaxy S and the Galaxy S Pro. Thanks to Intomobile.com. Enjoy!!

Nearly three weeks after announcing the second release candidates, the FreeBSD Engineering Team has announced that the FreeBSD 8.1 Final Release is available to download.

This is the second release of the 8-stable branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduce many new features.

Below are some of its highlights:

• zfsloader added
• zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14
• NFSv4 ACL support in UFS and ZFS; support added to cp(1), find(1), getfacl(1), mv(1), and setfacl(1) utilities
• UltraSPARC IV/IV+, SPARC64 V support
• SMP support in PowerPC G5
• BIND 9.6.2-P2
• sendmail updated to 8.14.4
• OpenSSH updated to 5.4p1
• GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.5

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list.

About FreeBSD

FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD’s code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive security features, and world class performance and is used by some of the world’s busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

Firefox 3.6, the latest stable release of Mozilla Firefox browser, just got updated to version 3.6.8. It is just three days after the release of Firefox 3.6.7 on Tuesday, July 20th still in this week.

According to the release note this release fixes a single stability issue affecting some pages containing plugins. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release to prevent the stability issue mentioned before.

To upgrade to the latest version, just click Help > Check for Upadates… directly from you Mozilla Firefox browser.

Firefox 3.6.8

Eclipse is a powerful and robust integrated development environment (IDE). For many people it is the ‘de facto’ IDE to code Java, C/C++, Javascript, PHP and et cetera.

This article shows you how to install PHP Plugin or PHP Development Tools (PDT) into Eclipse aka Galileo.

1. Run Eclipse then click Help > Install New Software…

2. In the Install Available Software window, select the Galileo update in the ‘Work with’ field.

Install PDT Eclipse (click to enlarge)

Scroll down to find ‘Programming Language’ category name and expand it. Then check/select the ‘PHP Development Tools (PDT) SDK Feature’

3. Click ‘Next >’ and then just accept the terms of the license agreements, and click Finish button.

4. Wait for a couple of minutes to let the installation process install the PHP plugin.

PDT Installation Process (click to enlarge)

5. Once the installation has completed, it is better to restart the Eclipse.

Now you are ready to write PHP codes using Eclipse.

Write PHP Codes in Eclipse (click to enlarge)

There is a great news. According to T-Mobile USA official Twitter account, its first HSPA+ capable smartphone will be unveiled later this summer. The smartphone device will use HTC Vanguard aka HTC Vision.

In real-world testing, the HSPA+ network can offer an average download speed of nearly 3 Mbps and upload speed of almost 1.3 Mbps. By reaching this speed rate value, it will be faster than Sprint’s Wimax network which is advertised as being 4G.

For you that want to take a look at the HTC Vision, here is the video. Thanks TheLayue. Enjoy!!

The PHP Development Team just announced today the availability of PHP 5.3.3 and PHP 5.2.14. The PHP 5.3.3 comes on improving the stability and security of the 5.3.x branch with more than 100 bug fixes, some of which are security related so all users are highly encouraged to upgrade to this release.

According to the release announcement, PHP 5.3.3 change the backward compatibility. It stated that methods with the same name as the last element of a namespaced class name will no longer be treated as constructor. This change doesn’t affect non-namespaced classes.

Below are the security enhancements and fixes in PHP 5.3.3:

• Rewrote var_export() to use smart_str rather than output buffering, prevents data disclosure if a fatal error occurs (CVE-2010-2531).
• Fixed a possible resource destruction issues in shm_put_var().
• Fixed a possible information leak because of interruption of XOR operator.
• Fixed a possible memory corruption because of unexpected call-time pass by refernce and following memory clobbering through callbacks.
• Fixed a possible memory corruption in ArrayObject::uasort().
• Fixed a possible memory corruption in parse_str().
• Fixed a possible memory corruption in pack().
• Fixed a possible memory corruption in substr_replace().
• Fixed a possible memory corruption in addcslashes().
• Fixed a possible stack exhaustion inside fnmatch().
• Fixed a possible dechunking filter buffer overflow.
• Fixed a possible arbitrary memory access inside sqlite extension.
• Fixed string format validation inside phar extension.
• Fixed handling of session variable serialization on certain prefix characters.
• Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when processing invalid XML-RPC requests (Fixes CVE-2010-0397, bug #51288).
• Fixed SplObjectStorage unserialization problems (CVE-2010-2225).
• Fixed possible buffer overflows in mysqlnd_list_fields, mysqlnd_change_user.
• Fixed possible buffer overflows when handling error packets in mysqlnd.

Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.3 include:

• Upgraded bundled sqlite to version 3.6.23.1.
• Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 8.02.
• Added FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) SAPI.
• Added stream filter support to mcrypt extension.
• Added full_special_chars filter to ext/filter.
• Fixed a possible crash because of recursive GC invocation.
• Fixed bug #52238 (Crash when an Exception occured in iterator_to_array).
• Fixed bug #52041 (Memory leak when writing on uninitialized variable returned from function).
• Fixed bug #52060 (Memory leak when passing a closure to method_exists()).
• Fixed bug #52001 (Memory allocation problems after using variable variables).
• Fixed bug #51723 (Content-length header is limited to 32bit integer with Apache2 on Windows).
• Fixed bug #48930 (__COMPILER_HALT_OFFSET__ incorrect in PHP >= 5.3).

For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available on http://php.net/migration53, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3. For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.3, see the ChangeLog.

The PHP 5.2.14 Release

The PHP 5.2.14 focuses on improving the stability and security of the 5.2.x branch with more than 60 bug fixes, some of which are security related. This release is the last 5.2.x branch marking the end of support for PHP 5.2 meaning there is no further active bug maintenance. All PHP 5.2.x users are highly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.14:

• Rewrote var_export() to use smart_str rather than output buffering, prevents data disclosure if a fatal error occurs.
• Fixed a possible interruption array leak in strrchr().(CVE-2010-2484)
• Fixed a possible interruption array leak in strchr(), strstr(), substr(), chunk_split(), strtok(), addcslashes(), str_repeat(), trim().
• Fixed a possible memory corruption in substr_replace().
• Fixed SplObjectStorage unserialization problems (CVE-2010-2225).
• Fixed a possible stack exaustion inside fnmatch().
• Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when processing invalid XML-RPC requests (Fixes CVE-2010-0397, bug #51288).
• Fixed handling of session variable serialization on certain prefix characters.
• Fixed a possible arbitrary memory access inside sqlite extension. Reported by Mateusz Kocielski.

Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.14 include:

• Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 8.02.
• Updated timezone database to version 2010.5.
• Fixed bug #52238 (Crash when an Exception occured in iterator_to_array).
• Fixed bug #52237 (Crash when passing the reference of the property of a non-object).
• Fixed bug #52041 (Memory leak when writing on uninitialized variable returned from function).
• Fixed bug #51822 (Segfault with strange __destruct() for static class variables).
• Fixed bug #51552 (debug_backtrace() causes segmentation fault and/or memory issues).
• Fixed bug #49267 (Linking fails for iconv on MacOS: “Undefined symbols: _libiconv”).

To prepare for upgrading to PHP 5.3, now that PHP 5.2′s support ended, a migration guide available onhttp://php.net/migration53, details the changes between PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3.

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.14 see the ChangeLog.

Source: The PHP Website

Windows Phone 7, the Microsoft’s next mobile operating system, is about to be expected available in the market on October 2010. Many people seems to like what they see on the Technical Preview. It looks very impressive.

I just compiled some lists of Windows Phone 7 Official Technical Preview Video you may wish to take a look.

Here are the videos. Enjoy!!

The PC-BSD Dev Team has announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running on FreeBSD 8.1 kernel.

The new release comes with a number of enhancements and improvements. The most notable changes are as follows:

• FreeBSD 8.1-Release
• KDE 4.4.5
• Numerous fixes to the installation backend
• Support for creating dedicated disk GPT partitioning
• Improved ZFS support
• Bugfixes to desktop tools / utilities

According to the release announcement, below are the full changelog of the new release:

• Updated to KDE 4.4.5
• Updated to FreeBSD 8.1
• Numerous fixes to installer, such as: Switch to “gpart” instead of fdisk for backend, Improvements to ZFS, allowing mirror / raidz setup via GUI, Encryption pass-phrase support, Use GPT partitioning when running in dedicated disk mode
• Improvements to life-preserver backup tool
• Fixed issue running downloaded python / ruby plasmoids
• Fixed nepomuk / strigi default init at first login
• Fixed issues with wifi tools in calculating signal strength
• ZFS syntax fix for installs to MBR partition
• During upgrade now install selected components properly
• Don’t use “lagg” device on systems with no wifi
• Use “async” for journaled file-systems
• Enable double-click partition editing action
• Fixed backwards numlock logic in KDE
• Added fixes to reduce kdeinit cpu usage from file polling
• Use 24 bit color depth during install by default

The download files are available in its mirrors site.

About PC-BSD

PC-BSD is a free operating system with ease of use in mind. Like any modern system, you can listen to your favorite music, watch your movies, work with office documents and install your favorite applications with a setup wizard at a click.