Tag Archive for 'release'

New Google App Engine Helper for Django released

Published on August 11, 2008 in App Engine and Python. 0 Comments

A new version of the Google App Engine Helper for Django has been released.

Release notes (Wed 6 August 2008) follow:

This is the last version of the Google App Engine Helper for Django that will
support Django 0.96. Future development of the helper will be targetted for the
upcoming 1.0 release of Django.

  • Improved SDK detection on Windows by looking at both the PATH variable that
    may be set by the installer and using the win32api module (if available) to
    look for the SDK in the default Program Files location.
  • Replaced the startapp command with a version that installs an App Engine

    Compatible application skeleton. Patch contributed by Andi Albrecht.

  • Changed the default runserver port to 8000 to match standard Django
    behaviour. Path contributed by Waldemar Kornewald
  • Email server settings from the Django settings file are provided to the App
    Engine Mail API. Patch contributed by Waldemar Kornewald
  • Added support for the Django memcache cache backend. Patch contributed by
    Jonca Rafal.
  • Added support for the Django session middle with db and cache backends for
    Django 1.0alpha only. Patches contributed by Jonca Rafal and Waldemar
    Kornewald
  • Moved the Django compatible login_required decorator to the standard Django
    location. Patch contributed by Andi Albrecht
  • Replaced the Django ModelForm class with the App Engine ModelForm class
  • Added a repr implementation for the BaseModel class
  • Many minor improvements to increase robustness and avoid errors if portions
    of Django are not present.

Via App Engine Guy/Mattias Johansson.

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5

Published on March 31, 2008 in General. 2 Comments

I just upgraded the blog from Wordpress 2.5 RC1 to the release version. Do let me know if you notice anything weird.

iPhone 1.1.3 firmware jailbroken, to be released next month

Published on January 19, 2008 in Apple. 14 Comments

I just read on Digg that the 1.1.3 firmware for the iPhone has been jailbroken. The team that did it, however, is not releasing it until Apple's iPhone SDK is out so that Apple doesn't patch it.

This means you have to wait until sometime in February before you can run 1.1.3 on a hacked iPhone.

Update: Marcus clarified in the comments that the firmware has been jailbroken and that this is not an unlock. So you can run homebrew apps on it but you won't be able to make phone calls, etc., with the 1.1.3 firmware until the phone is unlocked. (Thanks, Marcus!)

The video here shows the 1.1.3 firmware in use on a jailbroken iPhone.

I'm still on the initial firmware on my hacked iPhone. It was just too much trouble to upgrade/rehack/risk bricking the phone/etc. I will probably upgrade to this when it's released, though, since the first version of the firmware really does suck big time.

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