Wednesday, December 29, 2010

spss developer centrel

Developer Central has been around for almost five years, but Developer Central have never had the flexibility and tools to organize and deliver all the content in the way that would best serve the community of developers and users of SPSS Statistics and other SPSS products. With the new site (The SPSS Community if you are not already there) we have better tools and more control over the site organization. So Developer Central hope that users will find it more useful and easier to use. It has many downloads, forums, links to other resources, and this blog. It's also more of a two-way street, since anyone (who joins the community) can post comments about items and add their own content. (You need to send me an email with a link to the content in order to get it connected.)
Aim to broaden the content to include material for products other than SPSS Statistics, too. Right now, most of the content is for Statistics with some items for Data Collection, but we want that to grow. There is a new forum specifically for suggestions about this community. You can find the forums from the link in the community overview. Besides the SPSS Community, DeveloperWorks hosts gazillions of items for other IBM technologies, so explore those, too. Well, maybe not all the gazillions, but bound to find interesting things as you wander around the site.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

AMD developer central latest news

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What’s New in ATI Stream SDK v2.3
AMD recently released version 2.3 of the ATI Stream SDK with the following new features:Improved OpenCL™ runtime performance,Improved kernel launch times, Improved PCIe transfer times,Enabled DRMDMA for the ATI Radeon 5000 Series and AMD Radeon 6800 GPUs that are specified in the Supported Devices,Increased size of staging buffers,Enhanced Binary Image Format (BIF),Support for UVD video hardware component through OpenCL (Windows® 7),Support for AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 and HD 6800 Series graphics,Support for AMD E-Series and C-Series platforms,Support for OpenCL math libraries: FFT and BLAS-3.
In conjunction, the ATI Stream Profiler v2.1 and Stream KernelAnalyzer (SKA) v1.7 were released with a number of enhancements to help make programming with the SDK even easier.
Calling all software development innovators in general purpose GPU (GPGPU), data parallel and heterogeneous computing. On June 13-16, 2011 AMD will host the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS) in Bellevue, Washington. The AFDS conference board has issued a call for presentation proposals, inviting creators of next-generation software to share research and development work through presentations based on the latest technical papers or reports.

AFDS will be a great venue for developers, academics and innovative entrepreneurs to network with others engaged in related work, collectively defining the future course of heterogeneous computing. And delivering a presentation offers you the perfect opportunity to advocate programming paradigms or gain support for industry standards.

Attendees will be invited to participate in interactive sessions and hands-on labs to learn more about award-winning AMD Fusion APUs, GPUs, and advanced parallel processing programmability, as well as programming methodologies using industry standards such as OpenCL™, OpenGL™ and Microsoft DirectCompute.

The AMD Fusion APU is a unique and ideal development platform based on industry-standard APIs and programming languages, combining sequential style programming on the most widely used processor technology, the x86 architecture, with parallel programming on the GPU architecture. APUs are expected to enable users to experience things that were not possible previously, including advancements in user interfaces, video and image processing, Internet applications, and gaming – ushering in an era of intensely visual and more humanistic computing.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

mozzila for developers to fix bugs

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Software Developers can help Mozilla by fixing bugs, adding new features, writing tests, updating documentation, making Mozilla technology smaller and faster, and making Mozilla development easier for others.
* How to write code for Mozilla
* Other ways to get involved
* Documentation for developers

For Testers

Mozilla's products are what they are because of the help of people just like you who use them day to day, reporting bugs and helping us improve quality. To get involved, read about how you can help to test Mozilla.
Nightly Builds: The Bleeding Edge Created most weekdays from the previous day's work, these builds may or may not work. Use them to verify that a bug you're tracking has been fixed.
Mozilla developers make nightly builds for testing only. Mozilla developers writes code and post the results right away so people can join Mozilla's testing process and report bugs. You will find bugs, and lots of them. Mozilla might crash on startup. It might delete all your files and cause your computer to burst into flames. Don't bother downloading nightly builds if you're unwilling to put up with problems.

How To Get In Touch With Mozilla Developers:
You can find many Mozilla (and Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, SeaMonkey, etc.) developers on IRC. You can talk with them in real time by logging on mozilla.org's chat server, irc.mozilla.org with an IRC client. Mozilla suite and SeaMonkey come bundled with a chat client, ChatZilla, which is available for Firefox as an extension.

Mozilla also host developer forums, which are available through both mailing list and newsgroup interfaces.