June, 14, 2007 archives

i finally dealt with the layout problems on blog-la-sphere that showed up with internet explorer, so the blogroll no longer stomps all over the posts and photos.

next i need to re-write the “about” page so that people can learn what the heck is going on, and how the photos and posts are chosen for the front page. (summary: not by human hands.)

i think the layout i planned worked better in my head than in implementation, so i’ll probably re-think it sooner rather than later. but at least there’s always fresh content up there, as opposed to the blog i rarely updated.

it’s another month, so time for another connector/odbc release.

there’s already three bug fixes that have been committed to the repository for the next release, and the changes to support building on windows x64 should land soon.

we’re down to about 130 open bugs, about 20 less than the last release. some of those were newly fixed, and some were closed because they duplicated earlier problems that had already been fixed. this release does close another bug that is nearly three years old.

one of the things i hope to get fixed for the next release is being able to specify the default character set for the connection. you can’t do this now, so when developers try to use a different default character set like big5, problems show up in how parameters are escaped. this shouldn’t be hard to do, but it will involve adding another widget to our gui configuration, which i haven’t really had to do very much with up until now.