CSO Compression and Decompression Tool

Introduction I have a number of backed up ISO files that were taking up quite a bit of space. I wanted to save some space and I decided to compress them. Instead of putting them into something like a ZIP archive, I decided that compressing into CSO would be the most usable option. Sadly, there is a lack of CSO compression and decompression tools that can be easily installed using something like homebrew....

November 21, 2022 · John

KDocker 5.2 Released

This isn’t a huge release but includes a very nice new feature. Lock to desktop! This will force the application to always open on same desktop (when using multiple desktop workspaces) that it was originally docked on. The default behavior is to still to open on the current desktop. The source code for this release can be found here. The kdocker . com domain has expired and is now held by a squatter that will tell you your flash player is out of date....

July 26, 2018 · John

KDocker 5.1 Released

After quite some time and a few people asking, I’ve put up a new release of KDocker. The big new feature in this release is the ability to save application settings. This way you can dock an application and you don’t have to go though and configure how KDocker interacts with it. It will automatically load the last saved settings when it sees the application. As usual this release is source code only....

February 18, 2018 · John

Sigil 0.8.7 Released

This is a very small maintenance release. It mainly updates links for the change in code location. This release can be found here. The sha256sum of the checksum file is ec03bb7b586a4963fb9ac1ac22ae72c76360915775c0af631ce8e2da341aa0eb. Also, this is the last release that will have the Mac package signed by me.

June 14, 2015 · John

KDocker 5.0 Released

I’m pleased to announce that with the help of Dave Butcher KDocker has been updated to use Qt 5! See what I did there with the version number. This release doesn’t introduce any new features. It’s so KDocker can remain useful and not become one more piece of software that you can’t use on modern distros (XMMS). With this release the ground work is laid for new features and continued development....

May 3, 2015 · John

Sigil 0.8.6 Released

This release is a maintenance release of the 0.8.x series and fixes a few critical bugs that could cause Sigil to crash. You can find binary packages here and the change log, here. Finally, the sha256 checksum for the checksum file is 732773ec4fc73ab2ba29584130833b53d96c6c1296c433d889f2cd4b55d565be. The Mac package is signed by my signing key (John Schember) and 10.9.5 is the minimum OS X version but it was built and tested on 10.10. The Windows builds were built on Windows 7....

April 12, 2015 · John

KDocker 4.9 Released

There are two big changes on the KDocker front. First I’ve released version 4.9. It still used Qt 4 and has a few bug fixes. Contributions from Dave Butcher were the main reason for the release. Also, KDocker is no longer hosted on Launchpad. It has moved to GitHub at (https://github.com/user-none/KDocker). The plan is the next release will be KDocker 5.0 and will use Qt 5 instead of Qt 4. But that is yet to be determined when....

March 6, 2015 · John

Sigil 0.8.4 Released

With only one day after the 0.8.3 release 0.8.4 is being released. My deepest apologies because this means there is a bad bug. Admittedly it will only impact a very small amount of users but it was big enough to warrant a new release. Unfortunately during refactoring of “remove all plugins” code the actual remove code was moved to the wrong place. With 0.8.3 if you say no it will still remove all plugins....

February 2, 2015 · John

Sigil 0.8.3 Released

This is a big maintenance release. One of the biggest in long time. I highly recommend upgrading because while functionality wise not much has changed a lot of work went into improving stability Most if not all of the credit goes to Kevin Hendricks (KevinH on MobileRead). He spent a lot of time fixing every memory leak, memory corruption, and crasher he could find. He spent a lot of time really getting Sigil into a state of stability it hasn’t seen before....

January 31, 2015 · John

Sigil 0.8.2 Released

This is a small bug fix release that mainly address the plugin framework. A lot of work has been done to enhance and solidify the Python integration. Finally a new validation plugin type was added so a validation plugin can pass validation results to the built in validation pane. As usual the binary and source is available on GitHub. Also, I’ve switched to generating SHA256 checksums for the distributed files instead of using MD5....

November 28, 2014 · John