Google to close Google Code open source project hosting

Software Events
Google Code will officially stop existing. The open source project hosting service will no longer be accepting new project submissions as of today nor will no longer be accepting updates to existing projects from August 24, and will be closed entirely on January 25, 2016.   The company has moved their libphonenumber project which parses phone numbers from Google Code to GitHub.    If you do have projects on GC you can export them to GitHub, SourceForge or Bitbucket. The biggest problem are the projects that are no longer being worked on or abandon by the original developers which is a common scenario for all open source project platforms—SourceForge, GitHub, Bitbucket, Microsoft's CodePlex, Google Code, and every other, is that developers get bored, busy, or feel that a piece of…
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Embarcadero, GoDaddy SSL and trust issues

Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software Events
It has been noted that the discovery for the Embarcadero client web sites such as the quality portal and the EDN have older SSL certificates that for some reason were not automatically updated by the vendor GoDaddy. Now a SSL certificate is sold to a company that provides any private information encrypted so that outside folks cannot monitor the web site and gain vital information. That being said Embarcadero should have realized the issue prior to clients viewing it and posting it on blogs (such as this). A major software vendor does not get caught with their pants down but Embarcadero has. They are a unique company that provides high class software development tools for all aspects but something simple as this which can be done by anyone at corporate…
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TMS Pack for FireMonkey v2.9 released with a new Spell check engine

Rad Studio Delphi Development
TMS Pack for FireMonkey v2.9 released with a new Spell check engine & a major update of TTMSFMXRichEditor! In this new version we've added a new TMS Spell Check engine and a major update of the TTMSFMXRichEditor. What's new & improved in v2.9: New : TMS Spell Check engine for Windows and Mac OSX: Supports ISPELL dictionaries and raw dictionary formats Includes dictionaries for many languages including: English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Italian TMS Spell Check can directly interface to TTMSFMXRichEditor or it can be used standalone Persists its dictionaries and ignore list in a database. Can be used either in a synchronous way or an asynchronous way Words can programmatically be added to the ignore list and dictionary Comes with several predefined user interface controls: TTMSFMXSpellCheckConfigDialog, TTMSFMXSpellCheckLanguageSelectDialog, TTMSFMXSpellCheckCorrectPanel,…
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Mitov Software releases the latest video – audio components for Delphi as well as other platforms

Rad Studio Delphi Development
Mitov software has a huge library that consists of video components that you can insert into your application for the end user. Viewing the latest seminar you can view it by clicking here. The products or libraries are reasonably priced for a small or large software house.    View the video to see whether this fits into your development and let Mitov know you saw this on Baron Software. Mitov Software provides you:  Acquire and process digital signals (DSP)  Develop powerful displays for complex signals  Capture, analyze and transform audio & video  Detect objects and track targets in video  Build classifiers and AI applications  Assemble gauges and meters for monitoring & control  Visual logic decision making  Timeline driven events & animation Component libraries come in 3 versions a VCL -…
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How to reset the phpBB admin password in the event you forgot nightmare.

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes
To reset your phpBB Admin password, please follow these steps: A)  Using your web hosting control panel or the every least you need to identify the MySQL database associated with your phpBB installation. You have to locate the config.php usually located in the phpBB default folder that you originally installed the application. Open the config.php with any text editor to review and locate the section that is set in red bold.  That information has the database username and password which allows you to gain access. // phpBB auto-generated configuration file // Do not change anything in this file! $dbms = 'mysql'; $dbhost = 'localhost'; $dbport = ''; $dbname = 'database_name'; $dbuser = 'database_user'; $dbpasswd = 'database_password'; $table_prefix = 'phpbb_'; $acm_type = 'file'; $load_extensions = ''; @define('PHPBB_INSTALLED', true); ?> B)  From…
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