Saturday, September 04, 2004

Athene Desktop Edition 4.1. Athene is a desktop system for Linux that uses its own graphics drivers for high speed access to your graphics card. Because the Athene desktop and its applications have direct access to the graphics hardware, they have a significant speed advantage over conventional X applications. Athene is also backwards compatible with your existing X11 software. It features a highly responsive interface, scalable icons, translucency, alpha blending, Unicode support, and Windows compatibility. [freshmeat.net] 9:15:25 PM

PHPEclipse 1.1.0. PHP Eclipse adds PHP support to the Eclipse IDE Framework. [freshmeat.net] 9:07:47 PM

Mapping Hurricane Frances Online. Using open mapping standards over the Internet, I describe how I added a track of Hurricane Frances to my own web mapping site. All are served up by Apache, MapServer and a handful of external sites feeding data to my maps. The joys of interoperability. [O'Reilly Weblogs] 8:55:07 AM