I had some time to waste this week­end so I up­loaded a new video to You­Tube. This time I covered Queen Jane by The Milk Car­ton Kids—one of my fa­vour­ite bands of all time! Joey plays this one step down but I like it bet­ter in stand­ard tun­ing and with my capo on the 3rd fret 😊. En­joy the rest of the week­end. See you next time!

I just up­loaded a new video to You­Tube: an acous­tic cover of Pas­sen­ger’s Sweet Louise. The songs I usu­ally play are rather sad and de­press­ing, so I thought I’d go for something a little hap­pier this time 😊. Have fun and let me know if you like it!

Al­though the pre­vi­ous ver­sion was re­leased only two months ago, the all new GeoR­ocket 1.3.0 comes with a large num­ber of new fea­tures, fixes, and up­dates. We par­tic­u­larly fo­cused on per­form­ance and scalab­il­ity to make this the fast­est ver­sion avail­able. We also worked on us­ab­il­ity a lot and per­formed ex­tens­ive tests on Amazon Web Ser­vices AWS with huge data­sets to fur­ther im­prove GeoR­ock­et’s sta­bil­ity and use for real-world ap­plic­a­tions.

Today, on this lucky Fri­day, the 13th, I’m very happy to an­nounce the next stable open-source ver­sion of GeoR­ocket 1.2.0. We worked hard to make this the best re­lease avail­able yet with a large num­ber of new fea­tures, fixes, and up­dates (see be­low).

It’s been a while since I pos­ted up­dates on bson4­jack­son here on this blog, so now that ver­sion 2.9.2 has just been re­leased, I figured it would be a good idea to fill you all in on what has happened in the lib­rar­y’s de­vel­op­ment lately. bson4­jack­son is an ex­ten­sion to the Jack­son JSON pro­cessor adding sup­port for BSON, a bin­ary rep­res­ent­a­tion of JSON.

The new ver­sion 3.4.0 of gradle-down­load-task, a Gradle plug­in provid­ing a Download task that dis­play pro­gress in­form­a­tion, has just been re­leased. It con­tains many new fea­tures and up­dat­ing is re­com­men­ded for all users.