News (2014)

EDM/2 Wiki Updates - Next

EDM/2 is the premier site to find OS/2 and eComStation software development information.

Here are some news about the site.

Non-EDM/2 Republished Articles

There are several OS/2 and eComStation programming articles floating around. When the authors authorize to republish their articles under the Creative Commons license, it can be included on the wiki and the most important thing of all, there are clear rules to create derivative works.

The re-published articles on the EDM/2 wiki are:

• Building Dynamic Web Sites by Chris Wenham
  • Part I (May 2, 1998)
  • Part II (May 16, 1998)
  • Part III (August 16, 1998)
  • Part IV (September 16, 1998)
  • Part V (February 16, 1999)

EDM/2 Republished Articles

Since we are changing to a Wiki format, republishing permission allowing derivative work for the articles has to be requested. There had been good response from part of the Authors that I was able to contact. Several authors (all that I was able to contact) accepted that his articles were republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license to me migrated to wiki site.

The old EDM/2 articles that were re-published are:

• The Help Manager and Online Documentation by Larry Salomon Jr. (October 1993)
• Using OS/2 as a Platform for a Web Server by Jeff Hasz (February 1997)
• Building a CD Player by Stephane Bessette
  • Building a CD Player - Part 1 (September 1997)
  • Building a CD Player - Part 2 (October 1997)
  • Building a CD Player - Part 3 (November 1997)
  • Building a CD Player - Part 4 (December 1997)
• Programming the OS/2 File Dialog in C++ by Stephane Bessette (November 1997)
• Safe Document Handling by Stephane Bessette (December 1997)
• OS/2 v4.0 Notebooks by Stephane Bessette (March 1998)

Books and Tutorials

Some tutorials and Books that had been authorized to be republished on the wiki:

• The V C++ GUI Framework User Guide
• REXX Tips & Tricks by Bernd Schemmer‎ (NOT READY)
• A flat model device driver for OS/2 by Steve Mastrianni (NOT READY)
• REXX Reference Summary Handbook by Richard K. Goran (NOT READY)
• Object-Oriented Programming Using SOM and DSOM by Christina Lau (NOT READY)

Links

There is also some non-Creative Commons development related articles/publications that the EDM/2 wiki links to.

This month it had been included the following links.

• OS/2 Overview - (presentation) by Patrick Caldwell, Matt Kerster, Mike Roe, Mike Storck (Fall 2006)
• OS/2 Overview - (presentation)by Dario Berini, Derek Cole, Drew Hayes, Leigh Johann, Matt Kesler (Fall 2005)
• OS/2 Overview - (presentation) By Keith Ancowitz, Brian Henderson, James Mauss, Danielle Miller and Kyle Nevins (Fall 2003)
• OS/2 Overview - (presentation) By Chris Algire, Jon Depner, Jason Shifflet, Daniel Kvitko, Ryan Slominski (Fall 2003)
• OS/2 Overview - (presentation) By Chris Ashworth, Cameron Davis, John Weatherley (Fall 2003)
• OS/2 Overview - (presentation) By Chris Axford, Chris Evans, Elizabeth McGinnis, Erik Swensson (Fall 2002)
• OS/2 Overview - (presentation) By Matthew Liberati, Stephanie Engel, Kevin Koo, Kyu Oh (Fall 2002)
• OS/2 Overview - (presentation) By Shawn Ortiz, John McAveney, Andrew Bates, Paul Graf, Kevin Tougher (Fall 2001)
• The Warp Boot Sequence by BlackSheep

Extra updates

Also lately updated:

• Tools Articles
• Tools
  • Standarized the Tools pages on the wiki:
  • Added more tools for OS/2-eCS:
  • LesTecIO
  • REXXIO
  • MAID‎
  • Tcl/Tk
  • xLISP
  • newLISP
  • ISE Eiffel
  • SmallEiffel

I want to thank all the authors that allowed their articles and documentation to be published on the EDM/2 wiki.

Please visit: http://www.edm2.com

Help is always welcome, contact me if you want to help me with the wiki.