Development

I am planning to have a commit storm on GridDistribute’s source tree. This will happen in the following steps:

Today FreeBSD has upgraded CVS in their source tree, from 1.11.5 to 1.11.15, which addresses numerous security issues.

It’s so common to provide information feeds through RSS feed and today Ceri has committed FreeBSD’s RSS transform.

I don’t use Access for serious applications, and the biggest problem with it is performance concerns. It does not support concurrent accesses, and hence we will have a big trouble if our server is heavily loaded.

This is really insteresting one. With an “advertised” shell link, Windows Installer will automatically executed to install on demand.

Today I was consulted with the above question. In a C# program, we don’t have a “MyBase” keyword, however, we have a __base __keyword. A c-tor is a special case, in C#, the syntax is more like C++.

junsu has pointed out that gcc has the ablity to do profile, record the data and optimize the generated code according to the data. The nearest compiler guru I can visit is Prof. Husheng LIAO (sorry, the link here is not available to the Internet at the time writing, but this is hopefully to be changed soon) who recently concentrate his research in optimization for the Java Language Compiling process.

Further information will be available here soon.

Today, I saw CSDN announced their RSS 2.0 Feed (UPDATE: weber said that was announced a couple of weeks before), and I rushed into implementing one for Frontfree Technology Network.

RSS Feed is an important feature for modern websites, which permits visitors to “subscribe” the feeds, and syndicate the contents with other websites.

Today I have committed several major changes to existing Frontfree Website System 2.0. This is a “major” change because it is the first time we have utilized Apache’s rewrite technology on reverse proxying, which, in other words, is an important change that the reverse proxying technology is going much more mature than it was first taken place.

From the ChangeLog in XFree86 repository, ticket 511 indicates:

511. Encoding file updates (After X-TT Project):

• Removed jisx0208.1983-0.enc and added ‘ALIAS jisx0208.1983-0’ to
  jisx0208.1990-0.enc.
• Added Windows ucs2 cmap(3,1) to jisx0208.1990-0.enc and
  jisx0201.1976-0.enc.
• Added files for GB18030-0 and GB18030-1 (James Su).

Many efforts is ongoing to support the mandatory standard. I am happy to see these progresses, but unfortunatelly it seems that no font vendors are willing to release at least one of their fonts, and it seems unhopeful to see one in the future.