MacGDBp 1.4.1 has been released; this is a maintenance update that fixes a few bugs. I meant to get this release out a few weeks ago, but I’ve been travelling recently and didn’t have the time.
You can download MacGDBp 1.4.1 from this page. Please file any new issues in the bug tracker.
Tracking Info:
Current SHA1: 7fde123
Version: 1.4.1.91.97
Last Release Build: 2011-04-29 00:33:16
After a slight delay trying to track down some bugs, I’ve decided to push MacGDBp 1.4 to stable distribution. While this release is not quite perfect and there are a few known issues (listed on the project page), I was tired of blocking the release on relatively minor bugs. This release has been a year in the making, and it makes significant improvements over the 1.3 branch. To find out more about what went into making this new version, check out some of the older posts on the blog.
You can download MacGDBp 1.4 from this page. Please file any new issues in the bug tracker.
Update: A minor bug had to be fixed with the released package. I’ve pushed a new binary and the few people who have downloaded the update will be prompted to update again.
Tracking Info:
Current SHA1: 4ce0d31 d746f73e
Version: 1.4.0.85 .83
Last Release Build: 2011-02-26 14:21:17 2011-02-26 12:29:16
I’m happy to announce MacGDBp 1.4 Beta 2. It’s been nearly a month since the first beta was released and more than 200 people have tested Beta 1. I haven’t received any critical bug reports, which means that the internals are stable enough to ship. Beta 2 is the Release Candidate; barring any significant issues, this will be promoted to Stable in a month or less.
This release has a couple of bug fixes and adds two small enhancements:
You can download MacGDBp 1.4 Beta 2 from this page. Please file any new issues in the bug tracker.
Tracking Info:
Current SHA1: 5cfd0db
Version: 1.4.0.74 ß2
Last Release Build: 2011-01-14 23:48:03
I’m happy to announce the first beta of MacGDBp 1.4. This release represents nearly a year’s worth of work rewriting the entire internal structure of the application. As mentioned previously, MacGDBp 1.4 now communicates to the backend in an asynchronous manner. Not only does this change increase the robustness of the program, it should no longer beachball while waiting for responses from Xdebug. Because it took such a long time to stabilize this branch, there is very little in the way of new features for this release: almost all the work for this release was done for making the network changes and increasing stability.
One new point to be aware of is that the concept of “reconnect” is gone in this version. Instead, the debugger is now either attached to the backend or is detached. When attached, MacGDBp will start debugging any connections from Xdebug. When detached, MacGDBp will send the “detach” command immediately after receiving any new connections, aborting the debug.
There is one known issue:
You can download MacGDBp 1.4 Beta 1 from this page. Please try out this new version and file any new issues in the bug tracker.
Tracking Info:
Current SHA1: 1ffc93e
Version: 1.4.0.61 ß1
Last Release Build: 2010-12-18 14:18:34
It’s been more than two years since the Dashboard widget RGB Converter received an update. This widget, which was first released in 2005, has been downloaded more than 12,000 times! The system WebKit update that occurred with Safari 5.0 introduced a layout bug.
I had been wanting to redesign the widget with the new “wheel” appearance for a while, but doing so with just HTML and CSS seemed very difficult. The primary issue is drawing the slices of the circle, which I don’t think is possible with CSS. With version 3.0, the widget is drawn primarily using the HTML5 <canvas> tag, which made this possible:
Find out more on the product page. I hope you enjoy this update!
P.S. The source code is now also available through a public git repository.