Linux Journal | December 2012 | Issue 224 - ACM Digital Library

NEW PRODUCTSCharles Babbage’s On thePrinciples and Development ofthe Calculator and Other SeminalWritings (Dover Publications)Eighteenth-century British “Renaissance man” Charles Babbagedeveloped the idea of a programmable computer and articulatedthe principles on which all modern computing machines arebased. To keep Babbage’s seminal ideas from disappearing, DoverPublications is updating the 1961 release of On the Principlesand Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings,a compilation of his writings and those of several of his contemporaries. The writingsilluminate the work that eventually led to the development of the calculator. Interestingly,Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2 from the late 1800s was able to compute the values ofpolynomial functions with results up to 31 digits. The ideas found in Babbage’s writingsare essential reading for anyone interested in the history of computing technology.http://store.doverpublications.comPerforce’s Git FusionGit is great, but now it’s got more with help from Perforce’s GitFusion. With Git Fusion, developers who use Git can continue to usetheir preferred tools, but they now have flexible new capabilitiesfor customization, reuse and sharing of projects. Teams can use Gitrepositories and their components in new ways, combining them andcreating new repositories by selectively reusing elements from other Gitor Perforce code lines. Git Fusion also extends Perforce’s enterpriseversion management capabilities to Git repositories, bringing addedIP security and defensibility, scalability, compliance and visibility todisconnected projects. Perforce and Git Fusion are free for up to 20 users.http://www.perforce.comPlease send information about releases of Linux-related products to newproducts@linuxjournal.com orNew Products c/o Linux Journal, PO Box 980985, Houston, TX 77098. Submissions are edited for length and content.WWW.LINUXJOURNAL.COM / DECEMBER 2012 / 59