Ada World - News And Events

Introduction:
The Ada World News & Events is where you'll find the latest and greatest about what happened and where in Ada World project. Whether it's a website update, a new survey added to a project or a new development project, You'll know about it, right here, live, in the news.
In The News:
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, July 15th, 2006 Website News New Link and product Added to the Commercial Websites Page in my Commercial Links page, I just added a link there to headway software and their Headway Review product, it is an excellent complexity management tool for Ada projects. Take a look at it, you won't regret it.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 Ada Industry News Ada UK Conference, 2006 Announcing: Ada Conference UK 2006 When: Tuesday 28 March, 2006 Where: Manchester UK (The Lowry Hotel) This event revives the traditional Ada Conference in the UK, in a most timely fashion with the arrival of Ada 2005. It offers: plenary presentations from John Barnes and Robert Dewar track 1 - a series of technical talks track 2 - vendor presentations featuring product technical roles 17 exhibitor stands Further details and full programme available at The official Ada UK Conference 2006 website or contact Joan Atkinson for more details.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 Ada Industry News ADACORE BRINGS ADA TO ALTIVEC SUPPORT FOR LEADING WEAPONS COMPANY NEW YORK, October 3, 2005 - AdaCore, the leader in Ada solutions, today announced GNAT Pro Ada development tool suite support for Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.'s high-performance AltiVec(tm) instruction set. The ability to access AltiVec instructions from Ada was initiated by MBDA, a world leading, global missile systems company. MBDA wanted to combine the potential power of AltiVec with the 'formality' of Ada. By adopting Ada, the programming language best suited for safety-critical, high-reliability applications, MBDA is supporting its own stated priority to "deliver the highest product reliability while developing innovative customized solutions." "Using Ada with AltiVec gives MBDA the ability to reliably extract the maximum performance from the smallest number of processors," said Rod White, Technologist, MBDA, at the recent Ada-Europe conference in June 2005. "The result is lower system costs and reduced power consumption, plus Ada's rigorous structuring ensures long-term code maintainability." MBDA was attracted to Ada as a "strongly typed" programming language, a characteristic that is key to application reliability and security. AltiVec access from Ada allows MBDA to concentrate on operations, letting Ada datatypes solve data alignment issues, and achieving very low overheads. MBDA's choice of AdaCore to bring Ada to AltiVec is consistent with the company's strategy "to pursue and reinforce the development of strong, mutually beneficial links with industry leaders worldwide." "Missile systems clearly require a high-integrity, safety-critical programming language," said AdaCore President, Robert Dewar. "Ada's uncompromising emphasis on sound software engineering, structure, and formality lets MBDA exploit the advanced performance of AltiVec while still ensuring the absolute reliability and integrity of the weapons systems." About AltiVec AltiVec technology expands the capabilities of PowerPC microprocessors by providing excellent general-purpose processing performance, while concurrently addressing high-bandwidth data processing and algorithmic-intensive computations. Using Ada to access the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data - sometimes referred to as vector processing) AltiVec instruction set allows programmers to capitalize on the parallel processing features increasingly common on modern processors. AltiVec adds 162 "vector" instructions to versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's G4 and IBM's G5 processors. Pricing and Availability AdaCore's newly released integrated development environment (IDE), called the GNAT Programming Studio (GPS), will be included as part of the AdaCore solution for AltiVec. Pricing for GNAT Pro subscriptions starts at $14,000. AdaCore's solution for AltiVec is available today. About AdaCore Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial, open-source software solutions for Ada, a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where reliability, efficiency and safety are absolutely critical. AdaCore's flagship product is GNAT Pro, the commercial-grade open-source Ada development environment, which comes with expert online support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has customers worldwide; see http://www.adacore.com/customers.php for more information. Use of Ada and GNAT Pro continues to grow in high-integrity and safety-critical applications, including commercial and defense aircraft avionics, air traffic control, railroad systems, financial services and medical devices. AdaCore has North American headquarters in New York and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com About MBDA With an annual turnover exceeding 3 billion euros, a forward order book of over 13 billion euros, and over 70 customers world wides, MBDA is a world leading, global missile systems company. MBDA currently has 45 missile system and countermeasure programs in operational service and has proven its ability as prime contractor to head major multi-national projects. MBDA is jointly owned by BAE Systems, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), and Finmeccanica. AltiVec is a trademark of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 Project News Tom Moran Offers his Scout Project Tom Moran has create a very useful project that specifically deals with geographics conversions and imports/exports to popular programs such as World Wind and Google Earth. It can also install a World Wind path, delete one, or import data from one for modification or conversion. This project can be found in my Application Projects section.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 Ada Industry News ADACORE BRINGS ADA TO ALTIVEC SUPPORT FOR LEADING WEAPONS COMPANY NEW YORK, October 3, 2005 - AdaCore, the leader in Ada solutions, today announced GNAT Pro Ada development tool suite support for Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.'s high-performance AltiVec(tm) instruction set. The ability to access AltiVec instructions from Ada was initiated by MBDA, a world leading, global missile systems company. MBDA wanted to combine the potential power of AltiVec with the 'formality' of Ada. By adopting Ada, the programming language best suited for safety-critical, high-reliability applications, MBDA is supporting its own stated priority to "deliver the highest product reliability while developing innovative customized solutions." "Using Ada with AltiVec gives MBDA the ability to reliably extract the maximum performance from the smallest number of processors," said Rod White, Technologist, MBDA, at the recent Ada-Europe conference in June 2005. "The result is lower system costs and reduced power consumption, plus Ada's rigorous structuring ensures long-term code maintainability." MBDA was attracted to Ada as a "strongly typed" programming language, a characteristic that is key to application reliability and security. AltiVec access from Ada allows MBDA to concentrate on operations, letting Ada datatypes solve data alignment issues, and achieving very low overheads. MBDA's choice of AdaCore to bring Ada to AltiVec is consistent with the company's strategy "to pursue and reinforce the development of strong, mutually beneficial links with industry leaders worldwide." "Missile systems clearly require a high-integrity, safety-critical programming language," said AdaCore President, Robert Dewar. "Ada's uncompromising emphasis on sound software engineering, structure, and formality lets MBDA exploit the advanced performance of AltiVec while still ensuring the absolute reliability and integrity of the weapons systems." About AltiVec AltiVec technology expands the capabilities of PowerPC microprocessors by providing excellent general-purpose processing performance, while concurrently addressing high-bandwidth data processing and algorithmic-intensive computations. Using Ada to access the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data - sometimes referred to as vector processing) AltiVec instruction set allows programmers to capitalize on the parallel processing features increasingly common on modern processors. AltiVec adds 162 "vector" instructions to versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's G4 and IBM's G5 processors. Pricing and Availability AdaCore's newly released integrated development environment (IDE), called the GNAT Programming Studio (GPS), will be included as part of the AdaCore solution for AltiVec. Pricing for GNAT Pro subscriptions starts at $14,000. AdaCore's solution for AltiVec is available today. About AdaCore Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial, open-source software solutions for Ada, a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where reliability, efficiency and safety are absolutely critical. AdaCore's flagship product is GNAT Pro, the commercial-grade open-source Ada development environment, which comes with expert online support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has customers worldwide; see http://www.adacore.com/customers.php for more information. Use of Ada and GNAT Pro continues to grow in high-integrity and safety-critical applications, including commercial and defense aircraft avionics, air traffic control, railroad systems, financial services and medical devices. AdaCore has North American headquarters in New York and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com About MBDA With an annual turnover exceeding 3 billion euros, a forward order book of over 13 billion euros, and over 70 customers world wides, MBDA is a world leading, global missile systems company. MBDA currently has 45 missile system and countermeasure programs in operational service and has proven its ability as prime contractor to head major multi-national projects. MBDA is jointly owned by BAE Systems, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), and Finmeccanica. AltiVec is a trademark of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 Ada Industry News AdaCore announces the immediate availability of the GNAT GPL 2005 Edition. AdaCore is pleased to announce the release of the GNAT GPL 2005 Edition to provide Free Software developers, that is developers that distribute their work under the GPL (GNU General Public License), the latest and most advanced Ada 2005 software development environment. As many of you know, the Ada programming language is undergoing a revision, called Ada 2005. Many of the new features in the revision are available in the GNAT GPL 2005 Edition, notably: New language level features: Abstract interface types to provide multiple inheritance Task, protected and synchronized interfaces Limited-with and Private-with clauses Prevention of accidental overloading when overriding Object.operation notation General use of anonymous access subtypes Limited aggregates Access to constant parameters and null-excluding access subtypes Unchecked_Unions for interfacing with C Nested type extensions Support for 16-bit and 32-bit characters New standard libraries: Container library Complete definition of string subprograms (fixed, bounded, unbounded) Directory operations The GNAT GPL 2005 Edition, which is available free of charge from http://libre.adacore.com/, is licensed for Free Software development under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Implementation of the new Ada 2005 features is also available in GNAT Pro, which is licensed for all types of software development. For more information visit the following links: Ada 2005: http://www.adacore.com/ada_2005.php/ GNAT GPL 2005 Edition: http://libre.adacore.com/ GNAT Pro: http://www.adacore.com/gnatpro_summary.php/
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, August 8th, 2005 Website News New General Information Related Link Available In my General Information Related Links section. I've added a link to Peter Kitson's selection of Ada95 related free reading material in the forms of books and references. As a quick side note, the work in the new website design is progressing quite well too, if all goes as expected (and if time permits) the new layout should be in place in a couple of weeks to a month.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Sunday, April 17th, 2005 Website News Ada World Is Gonna Get A New Look Some of you might have noticed that it's been a little while since my last update. Indeed, I've been busy rethinking the layout of my website. As some of you might have noticed on comp.lang.ada me and David have been talking about Ada World's new role to the Ada Community and I wanted the new look to reflect that, dare I say, to perfection (or as close to it as I can get). Therefore, I've been thinking and trying out different layouts for the new websites. Many things are planned for the new website Some of it will have the same information, other parts will change dramatically to reflect the new role. In other words, this designing effort, and life has been keeping me busy for quite a while now. Today, I know exactly what I want to do with Ada World and I have a pretty good idea on how to present to you, the visitor. So Work will officially begin today with the new layout of the website. I will be keeping you up to date on the progress here until the new layout is ready to replace the current contents of the website. Until then, don't dispare, I'm still here, still alive and kicking as they say.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, January 22nd, 2005 Project News New Project added to the Binding Project Section This project can be found in my Binding Projects section. Aurele Vitali has created a binding to the Open A.L. (Audio Library) project. A great project for all audio adepts, definitaly worth the look. OpenALAda is currently at version 1.0.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, November 17th, 2004 Website News Correction made to the Commercial Links AdaCore Technologies, until quite recently, had two websites. They have now merged these two websites to now have one website for the two sister companies. You can go have a look at there new website by click on their name in this news announcement or by visiting the Commercial Websites section of my related links.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, November 17th, 2004 Website News New Link Added to the Commercial Websites Page In my Commercial Links page, I added a link to Aonix, makers of ObjectAda and many other software development tools. A very worthy addition to my list of commercial websites. Likewise, in my Ada Download Links page, I added a direct link to Aonix download section.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 Website News New Link Added to the Commercial Websites Page in my Commercial Links page, I added a link to ARTiSAN, the makers of Real-Time Studio Professional and Ada Synchronizer. The combination of these two tools is fast becoming a standard. Have a look, you won't be dissapointed.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 Website News New Advocacy Campaign launched by AdaCore Technologies AdaCore Technologies just launched an Ada advocacy campaign called Ada Answers It features videos interviews with companies that are using Ada along with many information and resource to help spread the word about the success of Ada in the corporate world. Definitaly worth the mouse click to get there. This is located in my Ada Advocacy page under the reference links section.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, October 9th, 2004 Project News Three Application Projects added. The first is DTraq, a data logging and review debugging tool, quite useful in it's specific domain. Next we have Bachar, a project to create a new microkernel for AdaOS. Finally Nick Roberts created ECLAT Experimental Compiler Library And Tools, a complete Ada 2005 compiler written in Ada 2005. Find out more about these projects at our Application Projects section.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, September 17th, 2004 Project News Two Application Projects added. First we have Stéphane Rochebrune's A.I.D.E. project which stands for Ada Instant Development Environment. The title says all and it's definitaly worth your mouse clicks. A not so new project but one, I think, derserves to be mentionned and added is R.A.P.I.D., also in the Application Projects section, which stands for Rapid Ada Portable Interface Design.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, September 4th, 2004 Website News New General Information Link added if you take a look at the General Information Links page, you'll notice the last link added, AdaBasis is a repository of Ada Source Code, mostly free, organized in an intelligent way. Looking for something specific you just might find it there.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, September 4th, 2004 Project News New project added to the Bindings section Konad has developed a set of extensions for the GWindows binding. It provides many addition functionality and features not found in GWindows itself. Definitaly worth a look in my book.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, August 31st, 2004 Project News New project added to the Applications section Take a look at the applications section. I've added the Bauhaus, software architecture, software reengineering and program understanding project. I think, as is stated on the website, that existing code base and new large scale projects can benefit from this application.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, July 13th, 2004 Website News New link added to the General Information websites Have a look at that section of the website, a new link to a wiki website dedicated to the Ada programming language has been added. I found it quite informative as it covers more than one subject related to the programming language.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, June 11th, 2004 Website News The C.L.A.I. is no more. The C.L.A.I. (Comp.Lang.Ada Issues) is no more. I've decided to concentrate the efforts on the other parts of my website instead which need work as well. The C.L.A.I. has been online for a good few months now and wasn't really being used although some people did join in. I will think of something to put there instead, have no worries about that.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, June 9th, 2004 Website News File added in the Free Books Section and New Links In the Learning Center, under the Free Books section I added a PDF about the implementation of a sporadic Server Scheduler in Ada. I learned alot from that paper and I wanted to share it with you. With the author's permission, the file is hosted right here on my website. I also added a couple of links to my General Information section which I believe you'll find quite interesting as well.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, May 22nd, 2004 Project News Project added to the Internet Projects In the Ada Internet Projects section I added the AdaGIO project. I found this project as a result of my everyday searches and couldn't help but add it on as soon as I noticed it. As I said before any Internet projects for Ada is definitaly worth mentionning.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, May 18th, 2004 Project News Project added to the project listing Have a look at the Ada Library Projects section You'll notice a new addition. Martin Dowie's implementation of the Ada 0Y proposals for Ada 95. Indeed Martin has started implementing the new proposed standard for the GNAT 3.15p and ObjectAda Compiler suites. A very interesting project very well worth the mouse click.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, May 12th, 2004 Website News A link Added and project location corrected I've added a website, In my Ada in Other Languages section, that was submitted to me by the webmaster of the website. Have a look at Ada Russia. It's a Russian website that features some pretty good contents for the russian speaking Ada community. As well E.W.S. (Embedded Web Server) has changed location and is now hosted on sourceforge. I've made proper adjustments to the Internet Projects section.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Sunday, April 11th, 2004 Project News 2 New Binding Projects Added As stated, take a look at the Bindings Projects page, you'll notice the two additions. The first, GLADE for GNAT (Not to be confused with the User Interface builder of the same name) This is an up to date implementation of Ada's Annex E. The second project is Florist for GNAT an up to date POSIX interface. Both created by Martin Krischik.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, April 7th, 2004 Website News New Other Languages Website Added Here's one for the German speaking/reading members of the Ada community. Take a look at Ada Deutschland. From what I saw, it seems to have alot of ada information hence a good Ada quality website.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, March 16th, 2004 Website News New General Information Related Link I've been busy keeping my links updated these past weeks as you might have noticed, today I add another General Information website. Have a look at the CBEL list of Ada programming language links. Quite exhaustive and well presented.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, March 12th, 2004 Project News Brand new development project, by Martin Krischik. Indeed, a new project has been created called ASIS for GNAT. It's goal, to provide an up to date implementation of A.S.I.S. (Ada Semantic Interface Specification) for GNAT based on GCC 3.5. A very interesting project worth looking at and following up with. Look for it in my Binding Projects page.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, March 10th, 2004 Website News Reception of the Global Web Award of 2003-2004. This award I proudly show on the main page of my website when you first enter it. a good 6 weeks ago I applied for this award and today I was rewarded for my long wait with it.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuessday, March 9th, 2004 Project News New Project Update now available. Mr. Gautier de Monmollin has been busy updating his TeXCAD project. have a look in my Application Projects section to find a link to TeXCAD Updated to version 4.1. offering even more features.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuessday, March 9th, 2004 Website News New Links added to the Commercial Links section I've added a couple of links in the commercial link section. Namely you can now visit Absolute Software, Vector Software and Polyspace Technologies.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Thursday, February 12th, 2004 Website News Two Organizations Added to the related links! Have a look at the Related Links / Ada Organizations Websites section. I've just added two other organizations there, namely Ada In Sweden and Ada In Switzerland.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Thursday, February 5th, 2004 Website News Related Links section restructuring! Have a look at the Related Links section it has undergone a major restructuring in order to accomodate the ever growing list of links. The new structure isolates the different categories of links into independant groups. This will help keep the list clear. Feel free to suggest other categories and of course websites that you know of using our Feedback Form.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, January 16th, 2004 Project News A New Library Project Added! Have a look at the Ada Simple Components developed by Dmitry A. Kazakov. By this library's name alone, I would say that Simple Components are the easiest to use I've seen. Definitaly worth an extensive look.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Thursday, January 1st, 2004 Website News A new read in the Specific Ada Learning Section! In the Free books section, look for David A. Wheeler's paper on the Steelman's specification and learn how today's language measure up to them. I also fixed the links in the Tutorials section that now points to David A. Wheeler's own website for the Lovelace Tutorial.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, December 29th, 2003 Project News Two Internet Projects added! In the Internet Projects section, look for Simple Ada MUD and a project that uses AdaSockets Tom Moran developed. I think you'll find them quite interesting.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, December 19th, 2003 Project News Website Added to the Commercial Links section! I just added a link to RR Software in the commercial category. They are the makers of Janus/Ada 95, 83, and CLAW bindings. Indeed this should have been there before today. Have a look for yourself and see why.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, December 12th, 2003 Project News Websites Added to the related links section! Have a special look at the commercial category, it's where I added 3 new links to 3 Ada related websites. All offering different Ada related products and services.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 Project News An Application Project Added To Our Listings! Have a look at AVR-Ada a recent project that aims to provide an Ada compiler for the AVR 8-bit microcontroller. This Ada compiler is based on GCC GNAT technology. I think it's worth taking a look at, just because it's another Ada platform and that's important to point out.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, December 1st, 2003 Project News An Application Project Added To Our Listings! Ada Core Technologies, ACT Europe, and the PolyORB team have announced the first public release of PolyORB. This first release contains a CORBA-compliant instantiation of the PolyORB generic middleware. Have a look at it, you surely won't regret your visit.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, November 29th, 2003 Project News Three New Projects Added To Our Listings! I have added an Application, an Internet and a Library project to my listings, all three developed/maintained by Simon Wright. In my eyes they are valuable additions to the listings for all intents and purposes of Ada World's mission statement. They are definitaly worth your mouse clicks.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Thursday, November 20th, 2003 Website News New Link Added to the Related Links! I added a link DDC-I but I also reorganized the links into more groups, for the sake of clarity. When I saw DDC-I, there was no way I wasn't going to add them up.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Thursday, November 13th, 2003 Website News New Link Added to the Related Links! In the Ada Downloads section, I've just added a link to where you can get your hands of a port of GNAT for the Real-Time Linux operating system.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, November 11th, 2003 Website News New Link Added to the Related Links! In the Ada Organizations section of the Related Links, you'll find the addition of The Ada-Belgium Organization. It has, namely, Ada activities and events pertaining to the organization and pointers to Ada related information and other events.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, November 8th, 2003 Website News New Link Added to the Related Links! Peter Hermann has collected an exhaustive list of Ada related links. It would be a sin not to have it as part of the related link simply because of the value of the information within his list. Therefore, I just added it.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, November 8th, 2003 Website News The Ada World's C.L.A.I. Now Available! Founded on an ide from the comp.lang.ada newsgroup, This is the place to create Ada issues, debate them as in add content and value to the issues and document them so that when there's enough and/or when the time is right, these suggestions can be submitted for revisions.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Thursday, November 6th, 2003 Project News Library Project Added to the listings!! Have a look at S.A.L. (Standard Ada Library) brought to you by Stephen Leake, an outstanding library that makes excellent use of Ada Generics. Along with providing Ada structures and Datatypes it also includes advanced mathematics calculations organized into an excellent code hierarchy. You'll find it in the Library Projects section of the listing.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, November 5th, 2003 Website News New Link Added to the related Links! Found another good website of Ada related links that I just couldn't, in good conscience, not add to my listings. As you'll see when you visit Cetus-Links - Ada section it's an exhaustive and comprehensive set of links.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Sunday, November 2nd, 2003 Website News New Link Added to the related Links! This is a quick update of the related links, my focus right now is adding new things to the website, I'm trying to get information on in as you're reading this. The newly added link is in the Ada Organizations section and links to the APIWG's home page.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, October 27th, 2003 Project News Binding Project Added to the listings! With the recent talks about CORBA and Ada in the newsgroups, I did a search and found ORBit-Ada I contacted Oliver Kellogg who assured me that it is still an Active project and planned to start the upgrade to ORBit 2.0 early next year. This should be a very interesting project to follow.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, October 27th, 2003 Website News Another PDF file added to the Free Books Section! Mr. Alexander Romanovsky has written a paper entitled Implementation of Blocking Coordinated Atomic Actions Based On Forward Error Recovery. The contents are just as interesting as the title itself. A must read in my book.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, October 25th, 2003 Project News Application Project Added to the listings! Take a look at AdaBrowse, a JavaDoc like HTML generator for Ada 95 library unit specifications. AdaBrowse is a command line utility designed to Generate HTML documents from the contents of Ada Specification files. It is developed but Thomas Wolf.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, October 25th, 2003 Website News A New Link And A Book Added! A link to a placed called Programming Language - Ada, an Ada specific sub category that offers a lot of information. I also added a PDF file I found which is a collection of notes pertaining to the Ada programming language. Not official learning material but it did manage to teach me a thing or two so it was worth adding it (in the free books section of the Learning Center).
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003 Website News New Links Added! There's three of them. The first is a link to a Macintosh related Ada website. Adrian Hoe has made hsi paper, which was published in the Ada-Europe 2002 conference proceedings. Very interesting reading in my book and so I've added a link to his personal website from which you can gain access to this paper. Finally I Added a link to Ada Malaysia.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, October 20th, 2003 Website News Jeffrey Creem's Distribution Re-Activated! As you might have seen I had a distribution of GNAT designed to work on the Linux Redhat platform version 9. A few corrections were required but now everything has been corrected and the distribution can be accessed once again. As the old expression goes: "Take it while it's hot". Just go to the Related Links and from there, go down to the Ada Downloads section to download your copy.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, October 17th, 2003 Website News A New Link Added! I couldn't possibly, in all good conscience, leave Ada Core Technology present without, of course, adding a link to it's sister site Ada Core Technologies Europe so here it is.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Thursday, October 16th, 2003 Project News Two Library Projects Added To Our Listings! Charles Container Library and Mats Weber's Ada Component Library are two libraries that offer different types of containers and components. They are generalized libraries as in they offer multiple types of data structures, containers and components which gives them a very broad range of possible usage. Excellent libraries which have been well developed over time. Take the time to have a look at them, they are certainly worth it.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, October 15th, 2003 Project News Internet Project Added To Our Listings! XML4Ada95, developed by Denny Vrandecic, is a different XML Project. It is a binding to the Xerces-Package developed by the Apache Group and as such allows full validation and serialization of XML document using a D.O.M. (Document Object Model).
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, October 15th, 2003 Project News Added An Internet Project! The project itself isn't new at all, AdaCGI, developed by David wheeler has been around for a while now. If you need a smaller internet environment than AWS but still require a basis a power, AdaCGI is the binding for you.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, October 14th, 2003 Project News Added A New Application Project! As the list of "current" projects continues to grow, here is an application project that is developed by Mr. Leonid Dulman. Have a look at V.A.D. (Visual Ada Developer) I think it's a good step in the direction of a visual aspect to Ada programming.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, October 13th, 2003 Website News Added A New Link to the Links Section! I decided to start taking care of the french speaking Ada community members and started adding links to french websites. Will I make a French side of Ada World? Only the future will tell.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, October 11th, 2003 Project News Two Projects Added to the listings! Samuel Tardieu has 2 projects that I've added to the listings. The first, AdaSockets has been added to the Internet Projects and the second, AdaERL was added to the Binding Projects section. In my book, these are definitaly worth taking the time to look at.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, October 10th, 2003 Website News A Linux RPM Now Available! Mr. Jeffrey Creem has made an RPM of the GNAT system. GNAT 5.01a (this is a GNAT based on gcc 3.2.3 but with all of the patches from the ACT CVS archive for the 5.01a version) for Redhat 9. You can download it right here, on Ada World. I've added it to the Related Links section under the Ada Downloads Label.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, October 8th, 2003 Website News New Links Added! Although I just added these links, in the new "Ada Organizations" section, some might beat me with a stick for not adding them sooner. Take a look and see what I mean. I'll wear my protective gear for the next few weeks when browsing the web.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Sunday, October 5th, 2003 Project News Application Project Added! What's the one thing most programmers hate the most and that really needs to be done the most too? Documentation, that's right. But fear not, there is a tool out there to save you alot of work. Have a look at AdaDoc, an application designed to create documentation files in many file formats based on Ada specification files. A must have for any big project, a nice to have for smaller projects and a definite time saver.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, October 1st, 2003 Website News Important Point and Reference Link added to the Advocacy Section! Some of you may know about it, others may not, but to me, it's a very important aspect of Ada95 that sets it in a class on it's own. Here I mean the Ada95 D.S.A. (Distributed System Annex) which is Ada's alternative to CORBA for distributed sytems. Read all about it in the Ada Advocacy Section and see for yourself what the Ada D.S.A. can do for your distributed system needs.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, September 29th, 2003 Project News New Internet Project Added! Have a look at this "recent" project that is ImgSvr developed by Patrice Freydiere Which is an Image Server application. Although it's a new project, it aims to offer, namely, Picture (file) sharing abilities and other Server related functionalities. It's in The Projects section under Internet Projects section. I see other fields of applications fora project such as this one.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, September 27th, 2003 Website News New Link Added! Yesterday I added a PDF file about the A# project to integrate Ada to the .NET Environment. Mr. Martin Krischik sent me the link to it's website. Many thanks to him and all other who are actively helping me make my website as good as it is.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, September 26th, 2003 Website News Two New Link and 3 New free PDF files! As the headline says I'm still researching away trying to find the best Ada information. The new links talks about Ada development on the RISC OS platform and the other one holds many interesting Ada related Papers. The new PDF Files are 3 different subjects pertaining to Ada Specifics. Therefore I added them to the Specific Ada Learnings section. All as interesting as the others, maybe make you think of other ideas for future projects. It did it for me.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003 Project News A New Binding Project Added! The Centre National de Recherche Scientifique has developed an Ada binding to Fortran's B.L.A.S. (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library and it is released under the GNU Public License. If you are working on or thinking about a mathematically oriented project this binding may be of great help to you.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003 Project News Two Projects Added! Two projects developed by Jeffrey Carter of PragmAda Software Engineering. The first is his own implementation of the Mine Detector game. The other is a PragmARCs a library of reusable components designed to save 50% of the amount of software written for an application. Definitely a must have in my book.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, September 22nd, 2003 Project News A New Project Category and 2 Projects Added! Thanks to the wise suggestion of M. Pascal Obry, I have removed the Interface category and replaced it with an Internet Projects category. In there I have also added two projects. The first is A.W.S. (Ada Web Server) application/framework developed by Pascal Obry and Dmitriy Anisimkov. The second is XML/Ada a complete XML Stream manipulation project developed by Emmanuel Briot. Both of these are definitely worth the time to have a look.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, September 22nd, 2003 Website News 4 New Files In The Learning Center! Indeed I have added four new PDF files to the Free Books section of the learning center. Have a look see, perhaps they will hold information you may not know about.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, September 19th, 2003 Project News A new application added to the projects! Have a look at Scala a freeware editor/librarian/analysis program for exploration of musical tunings. This project is developed by Manuel Op de Coul and is currently at version 2.2. If you're into Music, Scala is worth the visit.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Thursday, September 18th, 2003 Website News Ada World Gets Its Project Forum! A new button has been added to the menu (on the left) entitled Projects' forum and is now ready. If you have a project that you wish to talk about, let me know (throught the feed back form) and it will get added here.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, September 17th, 2003 Project News Binding Project Added! Take a look at A.P.Q. Version 2.0 created by Warren W. Gay. This is a thick database binding for Linux (and very shortly for Windows as well). I'm not too familiar with APQ but off hand it looks like a great binding that can help in a lot of ways any database development projects.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, September 17th, 2003 Project News Binding Project Added! A Binding project has been added to our listings, here we have Stephen Leake's Windex, a thick binding to Windows. it's currently at version 1.06 Have a look see, it's definitaly worth looking into. In my opinion, this binding is one for the books, well written and well organized.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Monday, September 15th, 2003 Project News Two Projects Added to our Lists! The first is Michael Erdmann's GNADE application (Tools and packages) to integrate SQL and databases and provide all the tools for an Ada Development Environment to use databases. The second is a library by Gautier de Montmollin which allows 3D graphics in native Ada source code, no bindings to Open GL or Direct-X, all Ada. Take a look at these projects see what Ada is capable of.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Sunday, September 14th, 2003 Website News Ada World gets its Community! After a while of configuration and setups, The community is finally ready for action. Have a look at it and if you can think of other categories that should be there, let me know. This is your community, make of it what it needs to be. Come on and join in it's all free and all for you.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, September 13th, 2003 Project News A New Bindings Project Added! Chris is currently working on a binding to the Linux Dynamic Library Support. The project is called DLibs and you can download it's sources straight from his website. This is a new project and is currently at version 0.1. However, I see this library as a very useful binding to have to offer an alternative means of accessing other libraries Developed in Ada or bindings to other technologies.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Saturday, September 13rd, 2003 Project News Two New Projects Added! Gautier de Montmollin is currently working on 2 projects that I added. TeXCAD an application which allows the creation and alteration of pictures in the LaTeX format and UnzipAda a library who's name pretty much speaks for itself. Go right ahead and visit these projects, you won't regret your mouse clicks.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Thursday, September 4th, 2003 Project News A new Application Project Added! Indeed, another project has been added to our listings. Have a look at Cheddar a realtime scheduling simulator. If you are developing real tiem systems chances are this tool will prove valuable to your endeavours. Just go to the projects page then Application Projects and you can see it there.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003 Project News A new Library Project Added! Have a look at The Ada Terminal Emulator An excellent terminal emulation library that supports many standards terminals and offer good features while in emulation. A good addition to anyone's arsenal of libraries.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003 Website News Ada World Gets a Learning Center! An Ada website simply wouldn't be complete without a means of teaching Ada material to visitors. Therefore, I've decided to add such a features to the website. Many thanks for the people that suggested it in the Ada news groups.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Sunday, August 31st, 2003 Project News Two Projects Added to The Projects Listing! Two Ada projects have been added to our projects listing, AdaOpenGL (a binding to the Open GL) and AdaCL (A Class Library). You can find them under the Binding projects and Library Project respectively. Have a look, they're definitely worth the mouse click.
DATE: TYPE: HEADLINE: DESCRIPTION:	Friday, August 29th, 2003 Website News Ada World Goes Live! After good long hard work, Ada World's website is published and ready for visitors. There is no projects right now because the website is new so now is the time to send your projects.