programming news http://turin.nss.udel.edu/programming/ News and announcements en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:15:35 -0500 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:15:35 -0500 dropbox feed goes online Wouldn't it be great if you could automagically find out when something new is going on with dropbox? A technology like that would be insanely great, wouldn't it? Thankfully, an RSS feed can serve that purpose...which has inexorably led you...here. Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Frey Dropbox wiki is ready to roll! At long last I put together a wiki site for Dropbox! Users who register on the wiki can add discussion items on some of the pages, so hopefully all of you with suggestions and tips can be heard. http://turin.nss.udel.edu/wiki/dropbox/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:05:00 -0400 Frey Dropbox 2.2.1 available One or two minor bug fixes. http://turin.nss.udel.edu/wiki/dropbox/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:28:00 -0400 Frey ncutil feed goes online Wouldn't it be great if you could automagically find out when something new is going on with ncutil? A technology like that would be insanely great, wouldn't it? Thankfully, an RSS feed can serve that purpose...which has inexorably led you...here. Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Frey ncutil 3.3 beta for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 I've posted an early beta of the newest release of ncutil on the site for those who would like to give it a try. Version 3.3 is updated to include the following 10.5-specific items: - Per-service Windows SMB preference entity - Deprecation of NetInfo preference entities This version also now makes use of the readline library for its CLI -- which means you now get a command history, arrow-key history navigation, and tab-completion of commands (sweet!) Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Frey ncutil 3.3 beta for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (update) I've posted an updated beta that includes two new commands: "version-num" and "os-variant." The "version-num" command prints a concise version number, where the "version" command continues to print a more verbose (and somewhat changed) versioning blurb. The "os-variant" command merely displays whether this ncutil was compiled against Foundation.framework or the libobjc Object root class. Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:28:00 -0500 Frey ncutil 3.3 beta for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (update 2) Another updated beta package posted. This one includes a fix for a long-standing issue with removing services/locations from the command line (rather than from the ncutil CLI). Special thanks to Justin Elliot for gdb stack traces; they helped with diagnosing this nasty bug. Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:54:00 -0500 Frey ncutil 3.3 beta for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (update 3) Version 3.3.18b posted; this version quashes a nasty little behavior: the CFString printing function, NCPrint(), was actually writing NUL characters to the output stream! Stupid thinking on my part when I first wrote that function (4 years ago?) so pretty much every version has had that behavior. That's how it goes: the silliest brain farts seem to hide in your code the longest! Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:10:00 -0500 Frey ncutil 3.1.3 update for Darwin posted Turns out the Darwin-oriented releases in the 3.1.x series were linked against Foundation and AppKit thanks to XCode's having added a special rule to link against them by default. A user caught this problem when he actually tried to use 3.1.2 under pure Darwin -- since I'd been testing on a Mac OS X box the dependencies were available and I never caught this problem. I fixed this issue and added a 3.1.3 release for Darwin. Tue, 26 May 2009 10:11:00 -0500 Frey tubegen feed goes online Wouldn't it be great if you could automagically find out when something new is going on with tubegen? A technology like that would be insanely great, wouldn't it? Thankfully, an RSS feed can serve that purpose...which has inexorably led you...here. Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Frey minor bug fix Two inline functions in Source/TubeGen.cpp had no explicit return type but returned a char*. On some architectures, the returned pointer would get mangled as it was cast down on return from the funtion, leading to a segfault when using the "status" command. Specifying the return type on these two functions fixed the issue. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0500 Frey