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Diving into WebKit

Blog post by stippi on Tue, 2010-02-23 19:11

First of all, I want to thank Haiku, Inc. for giving me the opportunity to concentrate fully for a while on the WebKit port and browser! This is an awesome chance that I intend to make full use of.

At the moment, I have mixed feelings. Not about writing blogs. Not about working on WebKit. But about using the new WebKit browser to write the blog entry, haha! I've seen it crash, although in the last days, it has become pretty stable. After we upgraded to a newer WebKit version as the basis for the port, the frequent random crashes have almost disappeared and I saw only one crash in three days. Compared to one every few minutes before.

Lesson 6: More Loops and Conditions

Blog post by darkwyrm on Sat, 2010-02-20 01:25

Here marks the beginning of the second unit in my series, "Learning to Program With Haiku." Lesson #6 expands on our knowledge of loops and decision-making constructs. Good luck! Learning to Program With Haiku, Lesson 6.

Lesson 5: Arrays, Strings, and Pointers

Blog post by darkwyrm on Sat, 2010-02-13 02:44

It's that time again, continuing in the journey from No Code to Know Code. This lesson marks the end of the first unit and is somewhere around halfway from complete neophyte to writing -- and understanding -- our first program for Haiku which uses windows and buttons. Learning to Program with Haiku, Lesson 5.

Mini report and pictures from FOSDEM 2010

Blog post by aldeck on Mon, 2010-02-08 15:21

Just came back from FOSDEM 2010, i don't have much to say, since it was quite a flash journey for me, i left home Sunday at 7:30AM and got back at 7:30PM. I originally planned to go on both days but this year Haiku didn't have its own stand, instead Haiku was present Sunday in the Alt-OS (ie: not Linux nor BSD) DevRoom in the form of several talks by François Revol, Olivier Coursière and Niels Reedijk. The Alt-OS DevRoom was a (~50 people capacity) class room, that François entirely managed and organized, he invited other projects to give talks and scheduled the talks.

Using malloc_debug to Find Memory Related Bugs

Blog post by mmlr on Mon, 2010-02-08 01:17

There's plenty of ways to introduce subtle bugs into your code that give you a hard time finding and fixing. In this post I'd like to introduce you to malloc_debug, a heap implementation with added debug helpers, and outline how it can be used to find some of these problems.

Lesson 4: If, For, And, Not, Or

Blog post by darkwyrm on Fri, 2010-02-05 23:34

Hey, that rhymes even! :P Lesson 4 is now out. Decision-making and repeating instructions are on the agenda for this one, expanding the repetoire of basic skills for writing code. Learning to Program With Haiku, Lesson 4.

Programming Lesson 3

Blog post by darkwyrm on Sat, 2010-01-30 01:32

Continued (mis)adventures in programming for all of the curious into the insights of being a codemonkey. In this lesson, we examine the different types of data we can use, a more in-depth look at how to print to the screen, and more! Learning to Program With Haiku, Lesson 3.pdf All previous lessons have received some minor revisions and code is now colored for better readability.

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