An anonymous submitter writes: "Warsaw University has won the 2003 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest with nine of ten problems solved. Second to fifth place are Moscow State University, St Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, Comenius University, Tsinghua University. You can view the problems online, as well as the final standings. Congratulations to all!"

An anonymous reader writes "After lots of heated debate regarding Gnutella2, (first story and more recent story), the specifications have finally been released. There is a mirror here. Let the debates begin."

linugen writes "According to this European Union website, the .eu regulation has finally been accepted. The new ".eu" domain name will complement the existing family of country-code or national Top Level Domains in the EU as well as the "generic" Top Level Domains such as '.com', '.org' and '.info'. Individual users will be able to continue to use these existing domains, but will now have the additional option of a single, European Union domain name as well. Looks like something's finally happening."

thirty-seven writes "The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest world finals are being held today, at 8:30am local time in Beverly Hills. But before the "real" contest started, the teams got to have some fun competing in the Java Challenge, where the teams write Java programs that directly compete against each other in a simulated environment. Although it was a big secret ahead of time, a pdf on the site now reveals that this year's Challenge was writing a program to drive a race car in a simulated demolition derby. No official results have been released yet, but according to their coach, the University of Waterloo team came in third overall after a slow start."

An anonymous reader submits: "internetnews is reporting that JBoss has started distributing compensation in the form of profit-sharing and options to developers that worked on the application server. The article can be found here. I can't find the announcement on the JBoss site but it can be found on any number of release wires like newsalert."

slashusrslashbin writes "CNet is reporting that Microsoft has broken with a key Web Services standard effort. Apparently the W3C 'is not the only vehicle in which to impact and evaluate a set of technologies.' Evaluating them in a massive monopoly is probably just as good..."

Massive Interactive writes "We have released an Open Source Interactive Television application framework (called Radon). From the site: 'Radon provides an easy to use wrapper API that simplifies the process of developing applications with OpenTV's SDK. It includes a debugging framework that makes discovering bugs in your code extremely easy and provides an ultra-lightweight COM like gadget and service interface that means that modular additions can be made to the framework.' Full details available at http://radon.set-top.net."

kid writes "There's an interesting interview with Dr. Marc Tremblay at Ace's Hardware. Dr. Tremblay is a distinguished engineer at Sun and the co-architect of the UltraSPARC processor. He is currently working on a processor that is claimed to deliver 30 times the performance of current CPUs utilizing an agressive multi-core/multi-threaded architecture. He talks about upcoming highly multithreaded CPUs from Sun as well as a wide range of problems facing today's CPU designers, from branch mispredictions to DRAM latency/bandwidth and power dissipation, and the ways in which he is working on solving them."

bookemdano writes "Intel announces first stacked processor for their XScale line. No core speed increases but the smaller sizes helps with power, overall unit size, and adding additional pieces like WiFi and color screens to smart phones and MP3 players. But speed increases are in the future."

An anonymous reader submits: "Dave Thomas of "Pragmmatic Programer" fame presents the first in a series of slides based on presentations about how programmers can maintain job security in this time of increased competition, cost cutting, outsourcing, etc. He makes several excellent points about things many programmer may not think about such as the dangers of over-reliance on one company or sector, the importance of diversity of knowledge, the fact that foreign programmers CAN produce quality code, and the fact that time does NOT necesserily equal value (the Everquest Syndrome) when it comes to software engineering. There is a lecture that goes along with the slides, but a great deal can be learned from the slides alone. Worth the read..."

Alex M writes "The GBAX.COM 2003 Coding Competition Winners were announced today. This was a competition was to develop a Game Boy Advance game or an emulator. The winner was Sean Reid with a fun and addictive game called Wonkie Guy. This game plus the other winners can be downloaded from results page. The results page also includes screenshots of each game." I just got my GameBoy Advance SP yesterday - what a freakin' great little system. I'm going to try this game out...

RadioheadKid writes "DevEdge has an interview with ESPN associate art director Mike Davidson. In the interview Davison talks about the decision to switch to a standards-based, non-table layout. The interview touches on the process he went through to make that decision and the rewards in both bandwidth savings and browser compatibility. An interesting read for those who have not switched to a standards-based, non-table layout. (hint, hint)"

An anonymous reader writes "Here is an interesting interview with Tom Anthony, describing why Ambrosia Software are porting their Mac games to the PC market. Do you think their games can really sell after being ported? I thought shareware was dead, but all their games are still using shareware as well."

orangerobot writes "A new article on XML.com summarizes some of the response from the XML-DEV mailing list to Tim Bray's recent comments about his frustrations with XML. The overall feedback is mixed but several parsing packages are mentioned that satisfy some of Bray's complaints about the difficulty of using DOM and SAX-based APIs. The packages include Pyxie, XML::Filter::Dispatcher and XML::Essex."

Tonetheman writes "Here is a neat link that will let you take a 3D tour of the linux kernel source code tree. The MPEG shows how the differeny parts of the source tree are linked... sort of if you have a good imagination. Cool stuff though!"

GNUpowerSoul asks: "I have been working for several years on a large open source library. Ever since we made our first public release three years ago, we have found that the majority of our users seem to have no experience whatsoever with open source ideas and conventions. We have had to dumb down our documentation considerably (to the point where we have multiple pages to describe in excruciating detail the usual 'configure; make; make install' step). Has anyone else had experience in how to deal with a user community who doesn't understand the 'normal' practices for open source projects?"

nellardo writes "The book C++ Templates: The Complete Guide, by Vandevoorde and Josuttis, Addison-Wesley 2003, is an authoritative treatment of exactly what it claims: the template mechanism of C++. If you are a C++ programmer, you should have this book on your shelf. If you aren't a C++ programmer, move along -- this book is highly specific to C++, and won't be much help in understanding the template mechanisms of other languages. Of course, if you aren't a C++ programmer, you probably wouldn't even give this book a second glance in the first place." Read on for the rest of Brook's review.

DivideByZero writes "Turns out that Danger, Inc. has finally gotten around to making the SDK (Sign up here) available for the Hiptop (Released in the US as the T-Mobile Sidekick) - free of charge . The Hiptop/Sidekick has been mentioned previously on Slashdot.)"

joshmccormack writes "According to c|net's news.com Sun has finally responded to JBoss Group's request for J2EE compliance testing. Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist stated in the article he thinks JBoss Group is bluffing, that their code won't pass the tests, and that some of the code is just copied from Sun."

We got some excellent questions for Scott Trappe, the code quality expert who runs Reasoning. In return, he gave us some excellent thoughts on how to improve code quality, along with some insight about how he reached his now-famous "Linux TCP/IP stack is better than most proprietary TCP/IP stacks" conclusion.