Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/01
Because of a very busy project, I hadn’t watch the Icecast.org homepage for a while.
Well, this year they in fact did release some new versions that you’d think are purely maintenance releases but do have new stuff:
libShout 2.3.0 added WebM support, which is great, because it is a license free video format formerly known as VP-8 by On2/Google.
libShout 2.3.1 added Opus support, which is cool, because last month, IETF published it as a standard for use on the internet: RFC 6716 – Definition of the Opus Audio Codec.
Icecast 2.3.3 fixed quite a bit of security fixes, had some general bugfixes, allows for sources to be authenticated via URL (just like listeners can), and added support for VLCT playlists (that have much more meta information than M3U or PLS playlists).
(Hopefully Windows binaries get added soon).
Icecast 2.4 beta adds WebM and Opus support and a few bugfixes. Needs thorough testing though.
Ices 2.0.2 streams audio to Icecast, now supports RoarAudio and fixes a few bugs.
–jeroen
via: Icecast.org.
Posted in Media Streaming, Power User | Tagged: audio codec, bugs, google, internet rfc, listeners, m3u, maintenance releases, opus, playlists, pls, security fixes, software, streams, technology, webm | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/30
Last week, Adobe launched the monospaced Open Source font [Wayback] Source Code Pro designed by [Wayback] Paul D. Hunt.
It is a follow-up of the (also designed by Paul) [Wayback] Source Sans Pro family of Open Source Fonts which got released early last month.
I did a quick look to see if it would get the same number of vertical lines as Lucida Console does at 8 points.
- Lucida Console: 50 lines
- Source Code Pro: 40 lines
Too bad, as the general font design is awesome.
One big missing thing is italic/oblique, which is often used in code editors. Hopefully a future version will include those.
For embedding source code examples in documentation, it is very legible, so I will keep it installed on my system.
You can try Source Code Pro yourself as well: it is available [Wayback] on SourceForge – that also hosts [Wayback] Open@Adobe – [Wayback] on GitHub, where you can fork it, as well as [Wayback] on Google Web Fonts, [Wayback] on typekit, and [Wayback] on WebINK.
–jeroen
via: [Wayback] Announcing Source Code Pro « Typblography.
Posted in Adobe Source Code Pro, Font, Lucida Console, Power User, Programmers Font, Typography | Tagged: adobe font, design, documentation, editors, font design, fonts, google, open source, software, sourceforge, technology, vertical lines, web fonts | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/29
If I read Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate my conclusion is that anything signed by the Adobe Code Signing Certificate since 2012-07-10 potentially can be malware.
As a precaution, I will manually revoke the certificate on all my systems (that’ll take a while!). If anyone knows how to automate that process, please post a comment showing how to.
Hitching on a trusted certificate of a big software company comes close to the ultimate hack: trojaning signed malware in the distribution of an OS vendor.
–jeroen
via: Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate « Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog.
Posted in *nix, Adobe, Android Devices, Apple, HTC, HTC Sensation, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Opinions, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: adobe software, conclusion, engineering team, precaution, secure software, software, software company, software engineering, technology, ultimate hack | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/28
There are three RAD Studio / Delphi XE3 hotfixes on the Delphi Registered User Downloads page.
Hotfix 3 is for the Professional edition only.
The others are for all editions.
This Hotfix addresses an issue in using SQLite driver on the Professional edition.
Available only to registered users of Professional edition of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE
1MB; Download
This Hotfix addresses a regression with using the GestureManager in a FireMonkey application.
Available only to registered users of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE
60MB; Download
This Hotfix addresses an issue with ShowMessage in a FireMonkey application on certain locales on Mac OS X.
Available only to registered users of Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3, RAD Studio XE3, and Embarcadero All-Access XE
12.1MB; Download
–jeroen
via: Delphi Registered User Downloads.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: c builder, computer, Delphi, download delphi, embarcadero, hotfixes, mac os x, professional edition, regression, software, technology | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/27
Cool: learned something new here:
About the path names of files being in the .dproj as well as in the .dpr:
@Jeroen – Looks like msbuild might need those entries, otherwise they’re possibly redundant, AFAICT… In any case, there is not much editing involved, just delete ‘dccreference’ entries and then a ‘save all’ in the IDE regenerates them. – Sertac Akyuz
–jeroen
via: refactoring – How to reorganize the folder structure of my units in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: computer, Delphi, folder structure, ide, path names, stack overflow, technology | 14 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/24
Remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide on bitsavers.org in http://bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/8086.
Intel MCS-86 is/was the 16-bit range of x86 processors.
I used it in BASM (not only in Delphi 1 and up, it started in Turbo Pascal 6), and before that in MASM, NASM, and TASM.
–jeroen
Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, History, Software Development, x86 | Tagged: assembly language, computer, Delphi, delphi 1, intel, intel 8086, intel assembly, intel mcs, language reference guide, nasm, pc computing, pdf, technology, turbo pascal 6, x86 processors | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/24
Posted in Geeky, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, LifeHacker, Opinions, Power User | Tagged: Apple, google, iOS6, Maps, technology | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/23
Frank Borland is back. You can meet him at Micro Focus now – they acquired Borland a while ago – where he relates to things from the past:
Frank Borland first appeared in advertisements and on the cover of the SideKick manual in 1984. Later on, Frank appeared in the first version of the Turbo Tutor manual.
He is talking about powerful and affordable, has Facebook as well as presence on LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+.
But I when I look at the MicroFocus product portfolio, I don’t see any that are both affordable and powerful.
Todays software days are different than 30 years ago, but I do agree with a couple of the points he made:
- Keep it open
- Don’t make it big, make it better
- Focus on the user experience
- Listen to the community
I don’t think you necessarily need to meet these two though:
- Meet every platform need
- Make it affordable
As those two tend to contradict each other.
What do you think?
–jeroen
via: » Frank’s Story Meet Frank Borland.
Posted in Agile, Delphi, Development, Opinions, Software Development, Testing, Unit Testing | Tagged: borland, business, computer, google, marketing, micro focus, product portfolio, technology, todays software, tutor, twitter | 21 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20
Summary:
- Zero day vulnerability in mshtml.dll used by Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9, and many other products.
- Resolution: Deploy EMET or stop using IE and other products using mshtml.dll until Microsoft delivers a patch.
Earlier this week a zero-day vulnerability in the mshtml.dll was made public. This DLL is used by almost all Internet Explorer versions (6-9 are vulnerable) and many other software products (almost anything from Microsoft and a lot of 3rd party software that displays a web page on Windows).
While Microsoft is building a fix that is to be released very soon now (probably tomorrow, Friday September 21st 2010), the official resolutions are not to use the mshtml.dll at all (impractical for many people), or deploy EMET (impractical too as it requires administrative privileges).
If you can, switch to a browser that uses a different layout engine than mshtml.dll (for instance browsers based on WebKit will do).
These pages are good starting points for more information:
Particularly interesting posts:
–jeroen
Posted in Internet Explorer, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: execcommand, internet explorer patch, internet explorer versions, layout engine, party software, software, software products, technology, zero day | 8 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/14
Two days ago I ran into the bug below while porting some code from Delphi 2006 to Delphi XE2, posted on StackOverflow, and got solutions in very little time.
Thanks Andreas Hausladen, David Heffernan, Ken White, Sertac Akyuz, Rudy Velthuis, for answering, providing solutions and verifying!
Note that this worked up until Delphi XE, and has been fixed in Delphi XE3 (which for this project I can’t use as the client upgraded to XE2 without SA).
Problem
- I get the error mentioned further on error when debugging an executable in Delphi XE2 update 4 under these circumstances:
- that depends on mqic.dll from WebShpere that is in C:\Program Files \IBM\WebSphere MQ\bin\mqic.dll and C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere MQ\bin is on the system path (not on the user path).
- is being debugged with an override environment variable in the Run -> Parameters -> Debugger -> Environment Block -> User overrides
- Including System Variables on the same property page is checked
This is the error (it’s a Windows DLL load error marked “System Error”).
The program can’t start because mqic.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
Solutions
–jeroen
via delphi – while debugging with Environment Variable “The program can’t start because ….dll is missing” – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: ibm websphere mq, software, stack overflow, technology | Leave a Comment »
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