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I heard from someone who downloaded Bookcase 0.4 and had problems compiling it. He’s using GCC 2.95.3 and apparently it has a couple problems.
First, in the bookcase/src/bcunititem.h file, near the end of the file, GCC was complaining about casting the const char* to a
Here are the patches: bcunititem.h.diff and bookcasedoc.cpp.diff
Oh, the things one learns…
It’s such a cool feeling to upload new versions. I submitted the results to the KDE apps repository and to freshmeat.net. The respective project pages are at Bookcase at apps.kde.com and Bookcase at freshmeat
Bookcase 0.4 is released. I fixed a few bugs, added a toolbar with a combobox for selecting which property to group the books by, and improveed the printing layout a bit.
I’ve learned more about XSLT than I ever wanted to know. You can’t use a parameter in the key() function, which limited me since I wanted to pass in the parameter from Bookcase. So I went a different route, much more inefficient, of doing two different sorts in the XSLT file. I also took advantage of the EXSLT extensions in libxslt which means at least version 1.0.19 is now required.
This is very cool. Time Magazine named our 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers as one of the Best Inventions of 2002.
One of the joys of open-source development is getting feedback and patches from users. One of such users sent me a very nice email about his having found Bookcase to be a useful app. This makes me happy. Said user is also Italian, and he sent a long an Italian translation. Now, http://i18n.kde.org has lots of information for translators, and lots of information for developers building translation files, but not much about how I integrate the po file into my app. Autoconf seems to pick it up automatically, but I’ve not figured out how to test it. I’ve tried:
% KDE_LANG=it bookcase
% LANG=it bookcase
% LC_MESSAGES=it bookcase
% LC_ALL=it bookcase
and nothing seems to work…hmmm…
Orbital dynamics are very cool. I wanted to specialize in astrodynamics in school, but with all the computational tools being developed, my advisor recommended that I stick to something more broad. But in any case, next year, Mars will be closer to the Earth than it has been in 73,000 years. Not coincidentally, we also launch our Mars Exploration Rovers next year, although we launch before periapsis.
After voting tonight, I fixed a few bugs in my templates. I had a wrong filename for my RDF file, as well as a typo for one of my Snowy River images.
Furthermore, based on an idea I got from a Spamcop mailing list, I redirect all requests for favicon.ico to a non-existant file at microsoft.com.
I worked a little on my Snowy River Pages and added some more scans of the Snowy River Arena Spectacular. I also fixed some validation issues.