March 2011
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Mar 24th
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Mar 22nd
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Forward Compatibility and Regressions
Some of you might recall a post in which I hoped to have a new version of Typica out last week. While it’s available now (go get it) it was released later than I had hoped. There’s a good reason for this, and I hope you’ll agree that delaying the release was the right decision. I recently switched to a laptop running Windows 7 as my primary computer after several years on a Mac....
Mar 22nd
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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
– Plato (The Republic)
Mar 17th
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Mar 10th
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Update on Typica Development
I had previously warned that I would be releasing a new version of Typica to take advantage of performance improvements provided by the recently released Qt 4.7.2, but I didn’t want to put that out without some bug fixes and new features. Here are some of the things that I can confirm will be in the next release. Bugs Fixed Midnight roasting bug fixed: Previously there was a bug which...
Mar 9th
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Mar 8th
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Mar 7th
Mar 6th
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“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re...”
– Woody Allen
Mar 5th
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Mar 4th
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Tweaks
Recently the people behind Qt released version 4.7.2 of that framework. I decided that I’d take a look at that and see how Typica behaves with that on Windows 7. After using that at the roaster today, I was unable to find any regressions (though I did not test every feature) but I did find that loading a target roast profile happens much faster than the most recent release version. Since...
Mar 3rd