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Software Comparisons on Wikipedia | |
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Date: 15/4/2009 | Many years ago I noticed that there was a page on Wikipedia comparing all the email clients. So of course I added Scribe to it. A while later someone removed it and caused a cascade of issues, starting with the de-listing of the Scribe Wikipedia page and then the de-listing of Scribe in Google results. Fun eh. Anyway the comparison pages are really useful for picking a software from a particular category.
However there doesn't seem to be a way to find all the comparison pages easily. So I'm going to keep a little list of them here, partly for my own reference and partly so that others can benefit too: Software comparisons:
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Linux/Mac port update | |
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Date: 9/4/2009 | This last week has been very productive. I have got both the Mac and Linux ports to a point of usability. Currently the Linux port is good enough for me to valgrind Scribe again, so it's running well enough to use on the v2 code base. This is a good thing, because v2 Scribe NEEDS valgrinding. It's still in that it all mostly works but every now and again it blows up and crashes stage. That said I've fixed one issue that would cause all the email to download again, even through it's been marked read (That gets annoying pretty quick).
I've got one more show stopper to fix before I release the next build. Basically when sending the worker thread doesn't wait for the GUI thread to finish processing the items in the queue and it crashes. The threading architecture in Scribe is a little old hat, I knew a lot less about threading when I wrote it. But the cost of a serious re-write of the threading is scaring me, so I'm just fixing the issues in the current source. Also I'm still facing a huge number of memory leaks to sort out. That work is progressing in parallel to the feature work. It's really important because I'm seeing very large virtual memory footprints over time with Scribe v2. So I'm moving a lot of code bit by bit over to various auto pointer or ref counted classes. However ever now and then the heap gets corrupted enough to assert when free'ing some object, hence I'm spending a lot of time getting the Linux port up to scratch so I can valgrind it when I need to. So basically I'm at that point now. Yay! |
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Update | |
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Date: 7/4/2009 | Things are looking a lot better for the Lgi ports than 2 weeks ago. I've got the Mac port back to a point where all my apps start and run ok. The issue with the native scrollbars crashing hasn't been resolved but at least I haven't gone backwards.
The Linux port of Lgi is making good progress as well, most of the drawing issues have been fixed, the fallout from the refactoring has been fixed and the apps are starting to work more than fail. Still there are still a few days of little bugs to sort out, like minor painting bugs, missed clicks and layout events, spurious warnings and the like. So... I'm hoping to start doing tri-platform releases by mid year. |
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Update | |
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Date: 30/3/2009 | Been a while since I posted something here, so I'll update on a bunch of stuff thats happening.
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Registering Visual C++ 2008 | |
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Date: 16/3/2009 | So you need to register Visual C++ 2008?
*sigh* Well, you can sign up for a MS Live ID and go through the loopholes. One thing to note is that you can use any bogas email address you like, they DON'T ACTUALLY CHECK IT! Which is nice I guess. Or alternatively, just use this key: PG1G5VXHH5NTG1 |
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Google Adwords | |
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Date: 11/3/2009 | I've gone and removed all the Google ads off this site. It was fun for a while, but now I don't get paid for it anymore so they're gone. The return on Adwords has gone from very decent to non existent, with zero changes on my part. Maybe I could frig with it for bit to improve it somewhat, but no I have better things to do with my time. |
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