e-ball Awards 2009

2009-09-26 19:05:27 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We are confident that to stimulate the development of software, it's necessary reward programs, not developers.

That's why we are going organize the "e-ball awards" together with www.ecomstation.com site

Submit your nominations within following categories:

• Best eComStation Application
• Best WorkPlace Shell Application
• Best eComStation Utility
• Best eComStation Widget
• Best eComStation Driver
• Best eComStation Developer Tool
• Best eComStation Game
• Best eComStation Scientific Computing Solution
• Best eComStation Student Product
• Best Technical Article for eComStation Developers

Post your nominations via web-form (Send the name of program, category, homepage, why is it best?)

ATTENTION: We talk about programs created (or updated significantly) during 2009.

eCo Labs - more tasks

2009-09-22 04:38:51 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software is obligated to fulfil the obligations and deliver improved shareware products. One of the methods - create additional modules and utilities to enforce main projects.

eCo Labs is a fund to attract new developers to eComStation. We are trying to share the income with standalone developers; stimulate the development of new PM-controls and libraries. Moreover, we are going update the portal for developers and enrich it with links and libraries.

eCo Labs - more tasks

2009-08-24 12:17:26 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

No more new tasks. We improved technical tasks for existing offerings.

for european developers: Here is the list of programs which you can improve

eCo Software is obligated to fulfil the obligations and deliver improved shareware products. One of the methods - create additional modules and utilities to enforce main projects.

eCo Labs is a fund to attract new developers to eComStation. We are trying to share the income with standalone developers; stimulate the development of new PM-controls and libraries. Moreover, we are going update the portal for developers and enrich it with links and libraries.

DevCon: Discuss ACPI with the developers of the driver

2009-08-17 22:21:08 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

New generation of eComStation operating system uses ACPI sub-system. The development of ACPI drivers continues by the plan (it is updated every month). The users need full functionality today. To accelerate the development it's necessary attract the developers with rich experience.

What is ACPI (for young users)?

Whatsnew:

• Intel published ACPI 4.0 standard (June 16, 2009)
• ACPI Exec -- ACPI debugger. It allows access to a large quantity of acpi internal state data without the need to resort to printf debuggeing.
• We are going publish FAQ for ACPI developers
• Many tickets are not processed you can join the research of specific problems.

We invite interested developers to discuss and participate in development of ACPI:

• you can subscribe to acpi-dev@ development mailing list (confirm your experience)
• discuss ACPI in os2ddprog
• Common questions may be discussed in the forum

Send us your contact information via web-form

Information for standalone developers is published in DevCon. You can send technical questions.

eCo Labs - more tasks

2009-07-21 02:26:45 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

You can implement some projects planned by eCo Labs.

New tasks for russian developers (for example, make small utility for DVD Toys, create null-image of burned CD and use it later when searching a file)

Here is the list of programs which you can improve

eCo Software is obligated to fulfil the obligations and deliver improved shareware products. One of the methods - create additional modules and utilities to enforce main projects.

eCo Labs is a fund to attract new developers to eComStation. We are trying to share the income with standalone developers; stimulate the development of new PM-controls and libraries. Moreover, we are going update the portal for developers and enrich it with links and libraries.

Hey, student! Share your home works

2009-07-21 02:24:50 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The school year is over, the students can share home work programs, utilities and lab-works with other students. Let's collect all this materials at the homepage of students and engineers.

You can select the tasks for the next year, continue the development of math programs (Solver), 3D-viewers, etc.

Whatsnew:

• new section related to 3D
• searching programs with implemented AI algorithms (compiled for eComStation)

eCo Labs - removed unnecessary tasks

2009-07-05 15:23:05 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Here is the list of programs which you can improve

eCo Software is obligated to fulfil the obligations and deliver improved shareware products. One of the methods - create additional modules and utilities to enforce main projects.

eCo Labs is a fund to attract new developers to eComStation. We are trying to share the income with standalone developers; stimulate the development of new PM-controls and libraries. Moreover, we are going update the portal for developers and enrich it with links and libraries.

Mozilla developers wanted!

2009-06-26 22:27:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [os2voice, Christian Hennecke ]

The existing developers who are working on the Mozilla line of products for OS/2 and eComStation, i.e., Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, are looking for help.

According to Peter Weilbacher, they no longer have the resources to follow all the changes done to the Mozilla code on OS/2. This has already been a problem for FF 3.5 (and the reason why @font-face doesn't work) and will be even more true for the version after that. In addition, Peter hasn't had a stable OS/2 enviroment over the last months, which has made building and development hard.

If you have good C and C++ skills, you are welcome to join the team. Please be aware that Mozilla apps are rather complex, so contributing calls for a longer commitment and some dedication. If you are willing to follow through with this, please use the mozilla.dev.ports.os2 news group to contact the existing developers. The group is available at news.mozilla.org and many other news servers.

DevCon: Discuss ACPI with the developers of the driver

2009-06-18 19:36:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

New generation of eComStation operating system uses ACPI sub-system. The development of ACPI drivers continues by the plan (it is updated every month). The users need full functionality today. To accelerate the development it's necessary attract the developers with rich experience.

We invite interested developers to discuss ACPI:

• you can subscribe to acpi-dev@ development mailing list (confirm your experience)
• discuss ACPI in os2ddprog
• Common questions may be discussed in the forum

Send us your contact information via web-form

Information for standalone developers is published in DevCon.

What is ACPI (for young users)?

Library of REXX scripts for eComStation

2009-05-26 00:10:21 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation becomes stronger if collect 100-200 modern useful REXX scripts.

Let's collect REXX scripts on DevCon site

Week of sci-tech labs hardware

2009-05-14 13:23:38 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The next week is dedicated to collection of info about devices used in sci-tech labs. Our database contains 4 records, Post new reports using the web-form

This information is important for students, engineers and developers of solutions. Inform us if you need support of new devices.

Homepage of students and engineers using eComStation

DevCon: The site for developers is updated

2009-05-04 03:46:57 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

DevCon site: http://ecomstation.ru/developer

The toolkit will be updated, new runtime should be tested (libraries used by many modern eComStation applications)

How to reanimate old program? Replace some modules to new libraries. For example, use LANGE for multi-language support

Updated new PM control elements (Guidelines: Additional control elements):

• Vivid listbox
• Movie stripe
• AboutDlg

SysInfo: SysInfo/VIO, new library to provide actual system information for developers

Whatsnew:

• More books (Catalogue of books)
• Warpin presentations (Warpin)
• More advices how to design applications (Guidelines: Application)
• Refreshed links to compilers (Compilers)
• How to success on eComStation market
• Guidelines (new: Entry field, Group box, ..)
• Fonts
• Internet libraries are updated
• New section: Vocabulary for translators
• What is dpi and how to design dialogs (Guidelines: Dialog window)

We need your feedback:

• Let's build the map of system components (Components)
• send us useful links
• share useful libraries with other developers
• how to design PM applications?

You can sponsor DevCon project or buy the subscription: Support DevCon (DevCon budget)

eCo Labs - more tasks for May holidays

2009-04-30 03:09:33 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software is obligated to fulfil the obligations, deliver improved shareware products. One of the methods - create additional modules and utilities to enforce main projects.

eCo Labs is a fund to attract new developers to eComStation. We are trying to share the income with standalone developers; stimulate the development of new PM-controls and libraries. Moreover, we are going update the portal for developers and enrich it with links and libraries.

To improve quality of eCo Software products, to accumulate templates for new software we published more than 80 tasks.

eCo Labs - more and more tasks

2009-04-18 20:51:40 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software is obligated to fulfil the obligations, deliver improved shareware products. One of the methods - create additional modules and utilities to enforce main projects.

eCo Labs is a fund to attract new developers to eComStation. We are trying to share the income with standalone developers; stimulate the development of new PM-controls and libraries. Moreover, we are going update the portal for developers and enrich it with links and libraries.

To improve quality of eCo Software products, to accumulate templates for new software we published more than 80 tasks.

eCo Shop news

2009-04-11 17:10:34 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software offered SSD (Solid State Disk) with eComStation pre-installed to users in Russia. Let's see if users need such product..

Other eCS resellers

Moreover, eCo Shop allows to register at coming conferences (Developers Workshop, Warpstock USA, Warpstock Europe)

eComStation + students, sci-tech labs

2009-03-30 12:31:26 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The site http://ecomstation.ru/student is aimed to collect information for students and engineers.

You can publish links:

• source code of your self-made math programs,
• essay related to eComStation and OS/2
• links to sites related to algorithms
• links related to computational geometry
• theory of games

Find more information on DevCon site, share your libraries with other students:

• For students - publish libraries
• For engineers - how to program USB and PCI devices in eComStation