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AntLR article at Javalobby

Thanks to Matt Schmidt of JavaLobby, my entry on writing a constraints language with AntLR has been republished at JavaLobby at his request!

IzPack 3.9.0-preview1 is available

The first preview release of IzPack 3.9.0 is now available for testing!

It can be downloaded from:

• ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/izpack/IzPack-install-3.9.0-preview1.jar
• ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/izpack/IzPack-install-reg-3.9.0-preview1.jar

We are actively looking for people to test this preview and report issues so that 3.9.0 is of a good quality. The current changes lists is the following:

• Fix for ComboBox in SearchField of UserInputPanel returning java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException if no options added.(Fabrice Mirabile, thanks to Oliver Kiddle)
• Fix for the header of the window runs the message into the filename (Fabrice Mirabile, thanks to Oliver Kiddle)
• Added TroubleShooting for ShellLink.dll missing in help (DocBook and XHTML) (Fabrice Mirabile).
• Swing threading fixes (Julien Ponge).
• Some fixes adviced by IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 code inspector (Julien Ponge).
• Spanish langpack update (Cesar Martinez Izquierdo).
• New Polish langpack (Fabrice Mirabile, thanks to Radek)
• Fixed the createPWD.sh (Fabrice Mirabile, thanks to Radek)

IzPack website back on track … as a wiki

The IzPack website is back on track after many issues with PHP. Ironically, I have installed a PHP application called Dokuwiki which is great for the job. The good news is that the IzPack web pages will be editable by volunteers and developers of the IzPack project. Expect some good content to be added soon. People willing to get an account can contact me by email. For the moment the content is essentially the one from the previous pages. If you are willing to help on the content, I'd be interested to see the tips that are on the BerliOS wiki to be moved here.

You have also probably noticed that the web pages at IzForge.com now have Google Ads. I don't expect to become rich with it: I simply hope that it will help me to pay the bill for the izforge.com hosting. Indeed, I haven't received many donations through PayPal for IzPack, although many companies create installers for their lucrative softwares with IzPack...

I hate PHP, my website content is unavailable

The main pages at IzForge.com used to be generated and cached through XSLT. The a**ho*** that develop PHP managed to break the whole XSLT support in PHP5, and hence my pages cannot be generated anymore. I have tried to adapt to the new XSL module, but somehow many things don't work anymore, like using external entities in XML documents. The contents will thus be unavailable until I switch to a static pages system which will be more reliable than this crap of PHP that many people use only to factor common pieces of pages content.

Don't expect me to write a single line of PHP code anymore, although I will still deploy good PHP applications like DotClear or DokuWiki.