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gradle-download-task 1.2

29 November 2014

The new version is now available on the Gradle plugin portal and can be added to your build through Gradle’s new plugin mechanism. Apart from that, compatibility with all latest Gradle versions has been ensured.

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bson4jackson 2.4 has just been released!

6 July 2014

The latest release of bson4jackson now supports Jackson 2.4. Also, more deserializers have been added and a few minor bugs have been fixed. The update is recommended for all users.

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gradle-download-task: download files with progress

22 March 2014

The new gradle-download-task plugin adds a download task to Gradle that is able to fetch a file from a server and display progress information. It also offers many other useful features.

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Command line tool for citations and bibliographies

25 October 2013

Version 0.6 of citeproc-java introduces a command line tool that can be used to generate citations and bibliographies without setting up a complete development environment.

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Generating citations and bibliographies with CSL and citeproc-java

16 September 2013

I’m thrilled to announce the first release of citeproc-java, a library to generate citations and bibliographies. It is similar to BibTeX but uses CSL under the hood and is therefore much more flexible.

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bson4jackson 2.2 has just been released!

9 May 2013

The latest release 2.2 of bson4jackson, which has just been released, now supports Jackson 2.2. Thanks to contributions from the community, dependencies have also been updated.

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Spamihilator website now Open Source

2 May 2013

I’ve just published the website of my popular anti-spam freeware Spamihilator as open source. The website is built with the static site generator Jekyll. If you want to contribute, send me a pull request on GitHub.

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5 anti-spam measures for phpBB 3.0

30 March 2013

Discussion boards powered by phpBB are regularly targeted by spammers. Version 3 has introduced an improved Captcha but there are more possibilities to reduce spam. In this article, I present five useful and effective measures.

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