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IBM Developerworks: "GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures.

Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization. This article explores many of these important extensions and shows you how they're used within the Linux kernel."

IBM developerWorks looks at several special capabilities of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) suite built into the Linux kernel.

"GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures.

Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization.

IBM Developerworks: "Paul Reiners shows how to animate images in unexpected and artistic ways using the Java™ 2D API and cellular automata.

In the process, he demonstrates implementation of an image operator in Java code and explains cyclic space, a type of 2D cellular automaton.

You can use the ideas from this article to create your own image operators and artistic programs using Java technology."

IBM Developerworks: "Each article in this "30 game scripts you can write in PHP" series will cover 10 scripts in 300 words or less (3d10 stands for "roll three 10-sided dice") simple enough for even a beginning developer, but useful enough for a seasoned game player.

The goal is to give you something you can modify to suit your needs, so you can impress your friends and players by busting out your laptop at your next gaming session."

IBM Developerworks: "This "Mastering Eclipse" series of articles teaches complete newcomers to Eclipse the ins and outs of the Eclipse IDE.

By the end of the series, you'll be on par with advanced users. In this article, learn about working with various parts of the Eclipse JDT."

IBM Developerworks: "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) and the power configuration systems built into modern computers provide a wide range of options for reducing overall power consumption.

Linux and its associated user space programs have many of the tools necessary to master your PC power consumption in a variety of contexts."

IBM Developerworks: "With PHP's object-oriented (OO) language features, if you aren't already creating your applications with OO principles in mind, these seven habits will help you get started in the transition between procedural programming and OO programming."

IBM DeveloperWorks has published a tutorial on GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 4. Written by Tim Jones, "Get to know GCC 4" describes the upgrade's new Tree SSA optimization framework and intermediate code representation, OpenMP multi-threading, and novel approaches to target and language support.

IBM Developerworks: "But GCC can't just sit still. New processor architectures continue to appear, and new research finds better ways to optimize and generate code.

So GCC moves forward and has now matured into its fourth major release. This article explores the fundamental changes in GCC version 4 to show you why--if you haven't switched yet--the time has come to use the compiler standard."

IBM Developerworks: "Administrators will tell you that with scale-out clusters any change, no matter how small, must be repeated up to hundreds of thousands of times; the laziest of admins have mastered techniques of scale-out management so that regardless of the number of nodes, the effort is the same.

In this article, the authors peer into the minds of the laziest Linux admins on Earth and divulge their secrets."