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Well I have just posted a patch to the wxWidgets Trac system, as far as I know the first time that PortableApps.com has submitted a patch to an upstream project, and long may it continue! If you are interested the patch is here and it implements the setting of directory timestamps on Windows. Nothing fancy, but hopefully a solid start for PortableApps.com helping other projects.

So I have been thinking recently about how to deal with Toucan development in the future, specifically with regards to when to release new versions. Currently there is quite a long time between releases, which is fine if you aren’t affected by any bugs and are just looking forward to new features, but is a nuisance if you are affected by a bug. In the table below you can see the time between releases of Toucan so far:

As you may have noticed, we get a lot of talk from users here on PortableApps.com wondering why they get this box popping up when they plug their USB drives into the computer. The users simply expect the menu to come up without having to do anything else. As they say, if U3 can do it, why can't we?

The reason behind autorun being disabled is an extremely valid one: security. Some users argue that simply autorunning a piece of software can't do anything bad to their system. Well, let's take a look at a type of virus that has been around for quite a while: the boot sector virus.

And when the time of its dissolution draws near that it must die, it builds itself a nest of frankincense, and myrrh, and other spices, into which [...] it enters and dies. But as the flesh decays a certain kind of worm is produced, which, being nourished by the juices of the dead bird, brings forth feathers. Then, when it has acquired strength, it takes up that nest in which are the bones of its parent, and bearing these it passes from the land of Arabia into Egypt, to the city called Heliopolis.

Here's the code I used for PNotes/ATPad.

They set the language through a file name, not using the environmental variables or using international language codes.

GetAppLanguage:
                ReadEnvStr $APPLANGUAGE "PortableApps.comLanguageCode"

                  StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE de Deutsch
                  StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE en_us English
                  StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE es_la Spanish
                  StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE it Italian
                  StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE jp Japanese
                  StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE pl Polski

Ok guys I know I promised a bug fix release of DVDStyler Portable but due to windows giving the Blue screen of death on boot up I had to install linux, Now because I am on linux I can still do releases as with the help of wine I can do my work more over I do have access to VirtualBox so I can emulate Windows xp/Vista with no problems. So please be patient and I'll get it done asap cheers and have fun

Well, to night I released the Dev Test 1 on Texter Portable. No really big changes but I did update the launcher code a little and I have also added all the PAF compatibility stuff to make it look nice. Take a look and tell me what you think.

Texter Portable

hey guys,

I've been a little busy with school work and also a Notepad2 Modification project where I added a new Lexer into the project for AutoHotKey Syntax Highlighting and also reintroduced syntax Highlighting to the project again, also I added support for Code Folding like what scite has.
Hopefully sometime today or tomorrow I'll release a bug fix for the DVDStyler Portable launcher where it created a directory (it must of been new as of 1.7 of DVDStyler)

Ok after two nights of programming and a night of frantic asking for help from John and Patrick the first release of Texter Portable. I learned something new about this release, how to make post-install code on the installer. Because there is just so much that needs to be copied the installer moves the files during the install. Thanks @ John for helping out there.

Hey Guys this is my first Blog!!!

Ok I hope you guys like it.
I will probably just use this so to update what I am currently working on Texter Portable

I just finished the first draft of it and will be running the preliminary tests on it tonight. I hope to have it released by Wednesday and have it out as an Alpha, then move into the Development Test by Friday.