Archive for December, 2009

BlackRay 0.10.0 released

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

The BlackRay Development Team is pleased to announce the release of BlackRay 0.10.0 for Linux, Solaris and Mac OS.

SoftMethod likes to thank all external contributors for helping to make this release possible. Special thanks go to Mike Alexeev and Souvik Roy, who dedicated a lot of their spare time to the development of BlackRay.

Besides various bug fixes, BlackRay 0.10 introduces several changes to existing features as well as some new features:

  • This release introduces support for the postgres protocol. You can now useĀ  your postgreSQL JDBC/ODBC drivers to connect to BlackRay.
  • The SQL parser has undergone some heavy changes. SQL parsing is now handled on the server side.
  • Initial support for python language bindings has been added.
  • Usage of the command-line tools has been simplified.
  • The syntax of the configuration file has also changed.
  • We’ve added some more examples to demonstrate the usage of the language bindings.

For a full list of changes please have a look at the file CHANGES included in the distribution.

For installation instructions please have a look at the BlackRay documentation, available as PDF and HTML (multi- or single-page version).

The following files are included in this release:

Sources:
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_src.tar.gz (Third-party sources)
blackray_0.10.0_src.tar.gz (BlackRay sources)

Documentation:
blackray-manual.pdf (BlackRay Manual, pdf version)
blackray-manual-html (BlackRay Manual, html version)
blackray-manual-htmlsingle (BlackRay Manual, html single-page version)

Binaries (including Third-Party libraries):
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-i686.tar.gz (Linux 32-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.tar.gz (Linux 64-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_MacOS-i686.tar.gz (MacOS 32-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_SunOS-i386.tar.gz (Solaris 64-bit)

Debian packages (third-party dependencies):
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_Linux-i686.deb (Linux 32-bit)
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.deb (Linux 64-bit)

Debian packages (BlackRay):
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-i686.deb (Linux 32-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.deb (Linux 64-bit)

RPM packages (third-party dependencies):
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_Linux-i686.rpm (Linux 32-bit)
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.rpm (Linux 64-bit)

RPM packages (BlackRay):
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-i686.rpm (Linux 32-bit)
blackray_0.10.0_Linux-x86_64.rpm (Linux 64-bit)

Solaris packages (third-party):
blackray-thirdparty_0.10.0_SunOS-i386.pkg.gz (Solaris 64-bit, gzipped)

Solaris packages (BlackRay):
blackray_0.10.0_SunOS-i386.pkg.gz (Solaris 64-bit, gzipped)

Presentation from SAPO CodeBits in Lisboa online

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Our presentation at SAPO CodeBits is done, the videos will be posted on the codebits.eu website later. The presentation is again available for your viewing pleasure in OpenOffice , SWF, and PDF format.

A major focus of the presentation here is the imminent 0.10 release. While Thomas stayed in Munich fixing bugs and getting stuff up and running Souvik joined me here in Lisboa for a bit of networking, un-conferencing and chilling. With about 600 attendees and four stages in an old rope factory, the location is set up just perfect.

Also we have to say that SAPO CodeBits is an awesome conference format. The hacking contest, all night long, music and party. Plus, here things are free once you get accepted to the conference. Even Pizza, Coffee, Drinks, Chocolate and Energy Drinks – all just available. The crowd is very mixed, and the talks are all really interesting.

Here are some impressions from the CodeBits location…