News (January 2013)

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

http://www.edm2.com

You can read this monthly update at: [[1]]

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:

• Easing the Windows to OS/2 Migration Path Using Common Functions by Jeff English (September 1994)
• Migrating Windows Applications to OS/2: Making it Work by Jeff English (November 1993)
• Bento Technology by Kirk Searls (March 1994)
• Initializers and Destructors in SOM by Scott H. Danforth (March 1994)
• Borland C++ for OS/2 Means Business by Michael Hyman (August 1993)
• Tapping into the OS/2 Multimedia Structures with REXX by Armin Schwarz (January 2004)

Books and Tutorials

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

• Object-Oriented Programming Using SOM and DSOM by Christina Lau - to Chapter 4

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.

• A Diary of a Programmer's Vacation in Florida by Randell S. Flint (January 1995)
• Countdown to PowerPC
• Delivering the OS/2 API Commitment
• OS/2 for the PowerPC: The Development Environment
• Writing OpenDoc Part Handlers: Hello World by Robert L. Tycast (January 1995)
• On the Road with Object REXX by Mike Baryla (January 1995)
• The Enhanced Workplace Shell Programming Interface in OS/2 Warp Version 3 by Cathy Bloomfield (January 1995)
• Workplace Shell and DSOM: Together at Last by Eric Osmann (January 1995)
• Migrating Your Source Code to OS/2 Warp by Ingrid Rodriguez (January 1995)
• OS/2 for the PowerPC: Development Tools Coming Online Fast!
• Using the OS/2 Workplace Shell and DirectToSOM C++ by Robert Warren (January 1995)
• DDTT: A New API Test Tool by Vince Rapp (January 1995)
• Personalize Your OS/2 Warp Boot Screen by [[Allen Wynn and Joe Polimeni (January 1995)
• Extend Your Programs with REXX by Monte Copeland (January 1995)
• Monitoring Display Driver Interface Calls by Mike Cooper (January 1995)
• The Merging of Object-Oriented and Distributed Systems by Rob High (January 1995)
• Q's and A's - January 1995
• Tips and Techniques - January 1995
• Workplace:Advancing the State of the Art by Miles Barel and Jeri Dube (September 1994)
• What's in it for me? - Workplace (September 1994)
• DIVEing into OS/2 Games! by Darren Dobkin (September 1994)
• OS/2 Enters the DSP Age by Linden deCarmo (September 1994)
• The Long Road by Sheila Harnett (September 1994)
• Fonts R Us! by Kelvin R. Lawrence (September 1994)
• Going the Extra Yard by Yvonne Nonte Stoetzel and Gregg Mason (September 1994)
• What's New for Programmers in LAN Server 4.0 by Tom Herrick(September 1994)
• Using the CTOI Tool by Amy Conner (September 1994)
• Getting the Bugs Out with IPMD by Patrick Gerstle (September 1994)
• Extra Extra!! by Michelle Harr and Tina Lemire (September 1994)
• Is That Valid? by Matt Smith (September 1994)
• New and Improved:The GRE22 Printer Device Driver Model by Michael R. Cooper and Monte Copeland (September 1994)
• A Sample GRE22 Hardcopy Driver (September 1994)
• Making Your OS/2 Device Driver APM-Aware by Frank J. Schroeder (September 1994)
• More Cool Stuff (September 1994)
• Tips - September 1994 (September 1994)
• Q's and A's - September 1994 (September 1994)
• The Road to Hyperwise! by Cathy Longenberger (September 1994)
• Creating Animation for MMPM/2 by Darren Dobkin (Jun 1994)
• Open Scripting Architecture: Scripting for the Masses by Robert Tycast (Jun 1994)
• OpenDoc Glossary
• Insights -- It's Renewal Time
• Writing Object Oriented Multimedia I/O Procedures by Ron Jones (Jun 1994)
• What Is the Future of OS/2 Multimedia? by Brad Noe (Jun 1994)
• Snapshot of the PSP LAN Systems API Strategy by Kim Wilkens (Jun 1994)
• An Introduction to Universal Language Support by Lisa Abbott (Jun 1994)
• Internationalization Glossary
• The OS/2 Debug Kernel by Charlie Schmitt and Monte Copeland (Jun 1994)
• Creating CID-Enabled Installations by Andrei Malacinski, Ken Greenlee, and Ernie Lovenhouse (Jun 1994)
• A Closer Look at Software Installer
• Filling You In: Areas, Paths, and Clipping by Kelvin R. Lawrence (Jun 1994)
• Ready! Set! Build! by Yvonne Nonte Stoetzel and Gregg Mason (Jun 1994)
• Communication Between OS/2 and WIN-OS/2 - Part 3 by David Kenner
• Sharing the Parallel Port by Frank J. Schroeder (Jun 1994)
• Q's and A's - Jun 1994
• Tips 'N Techniques - Jun 1994
• SMART Review by Ingrid Rodriguez (March 1994)
• 10 Tips to Effective Multimedia Programs by Linden deCarmo (March 1994)
• OpenDoc Technology: Basic Concepts by Robert Tycast (March 1994)
• Initializers and Destructors in SOM by Scott H. Danforth (March 1994)
• Workplace OS/2: Just Good Old OS/2… For the PowerPC! by Scott Winters and Jeri Dube (March 1994)
• Workplace OS/2 and OS/2 32-Bit API Strategy by Ken Borgendale and Arnold Bramnick (March 1994)
• KwikINF (Quick Information Access into Online References) by Paul Brightly (November 1993)
• DDK Notes - Nov 1993 by Judith A. Courter (November 1993)
• DDK Q's and A's - Nov 1993 (November 1993)
• Tips 'N Techniques - Nov 1993 (November 1993)
• Communication between OS/2 and Windows Processes by David Kenner (November 1993)
• The Five Phases of the Porting Process (November 1993)
• Maximizing the Audio Support in OS/2 2.1 by Linden deCarmo (November 1993)
• Snap! Crack! Bang! With OS/2 2.1 Multimedia Support (Part 2) by Gary G. Allran (November 1993)
• The OS/2 Graphics Subsystem in the Workplace OS Family by Kelvin R. Lawrence (November 1993)
• Modifying Your PM Programs for Pen for OS/2 by Vera Dulaney and Kevin Lee (November 1993)
• Side by Side Comparison - OpenDoc vs. OLE2 (November 1993)
• OpenDoc: An Idea Whose Time has Come! by Robert Tycast (November 1993)
• IBM Device Driver Source Kit for OS/2 by Judith A. Courter (August 1993)
• Graphics Interface Kit/2 Brings Ease to Creating GUIs (August 1993)
• Graphics Interface Kit/2 and The Developer Connection for OS/2 by Seth Eilbott (August 1993)
• Creating Multithreaded Applications with WATCOM VX-REXX by Brian Vink (August 1993)
• Multithreading Presentation Manager Applications by Monte Copeland (August 1993)
• Information on how to create WPS objects using REXX by Michael Lamb (1992)

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.