Archive for the Category: Open Source

‘Restore the Link’ Wins at Western Engineering First-Year Design Showcase

April 16, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Some of you may remember my son, Tyler Lacroix, as a speaker at MQTC v2.0.1.3 for the ‘MQ Telemetry Transport Programming’ session. He is now in first year engineering at the University of Western. Tyler’s group (Dana Zagar, Eric Robinson, Kaylin Haill and Tyler) entered the Engineering First-Year Design Showcase along with nearly 500 students […]

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SQLite v3.8.9 Released

April 8, 2015 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.8.9. http://www.sqlite.org/news.html SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 37.0 Released

April 1, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v37.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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New Open Source Project called ‘Round Robin Messaging’

April 1, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce a new open source project called: Round Robin Messaging (RRM). RRM is a MQ application that will move messages from a single input queue to ‘n’ output queues (‘n’ can be up to 99) in a round robin fashion. There are 2 reasons people may be interested in RRM: […]

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New: Universal File Mover v1.2.0

March 27, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is pleased to announce the release of Universal File Mover v1.2.0. It is a free open source project. Universal File Mover is more than a simple tool to manage the transfer of files. It allows the user to combine business processes into a workflow. The user combines a series of Action commands to create […]

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Java and MQ issues with UFM and MQ v7.5.0.3

March 25, 2015 Roger Lacroix

The last 3-4 weeks have been an interesting and painful, ‘beat your head against the wall’ type of developer nightmare. A customer was getting some very strange behavior with Universal File Mover (UFM) setting the Correlation Id of a message when running as a Windows service. When UFM is watching a directory for files to […]

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Mozilla Firefox 36.0 Released

February 24, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v36.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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New Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Released

February 2, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Raspberry Pi Foundation has just released a new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. http://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/ Specifications: A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU 1GB RAM 4 USB ports 40 GPIO pins Full HDMI port Ethernet port Combined 3.5mm audio jack and composite videov Camera interface (CSI) Display interface (DSI) Micro SD card slot VideoCore IV 3D graphics […]

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LibreOffice 4.4 Released

January 30, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Document Foundation has just released LibreOffice v4.4.0. http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/29/libreoffice-4-4-the-most-beautiful-libreoffice-ever/ LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download and install for free. There is a large base of satisfied LibreOffice users worldwide, and it’s available in more than 30 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux […]

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SQLite v3.8.8 Released

January 16, 2015 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.8.8. http://www.sqlite.org/news.html SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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