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A stream of streamings
I’m a last.fm fan. I love its ability to not only stream music without needing a dedicated client installed (yes a flash application I think suits a purpose) and I think it’s ability to provide music I might also like is amazingly nice. I’m a “random it all” kind of guy when I listen to [...]
Saying lib out loud
Not being a native English speaker, I’ve always pronounced libcurl with a ‘lib’ part as if it was part of ‘liberty’, and ‘curl’ with a K sound and ending with ‘earl’. I don’t know of any Swedes who would not pronounce ‘lib’ like that, but when speaking Swedish we’re of course highly influenced by other [...]
The first 100 companies
During a rather long time I’ve been “collecting” companies I know run (or ran) and use curl and libcurl in “commercial” situations. As of this moment, this list broke the magic 100 amount.
If you know of other companies, let me know!
Some stats on curl development
Counting curl 6.0 and up to curl 7.19.3 we’ve done 78 releases during the 9.4 years it took.
In this time, we’ve mentioned 1259 bugfixes and 389 notable changes.
This makes one bugfix done every 2.7 days. One release done every 43rd day with an average of 16 bugfixes done in each. The longest interval ever between [...]
curl 7.19.3
I just now sent away the announcement of curl and libcurl 7.19.3. With some 30 bugfixes and only two actual changes I hope this will again be a solid release that’ll be appreciated and used all over.
The changes are:
CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE
Linux distros consolidate crypto libs
For a while already, the Fedora distribution has fought battles, done lots of work and pushed for a consolidation of all packages that use crypto libs to complete go with Mozilla’s NSS.
Now it seems to be OpenSUSE’s turn. The discussion I link to here doesn’t make any definite conclusions but they seem to lean towards [...]
FLOSS Weekly #51 on curl
Late Wednesday evening (middle European time zone) on January 7th 2009 I was up doing a live recording of the podcast show FLOSS Weekly with Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz. This recording is now available for download as episode #51.
We chatted a bit about curl and libcurl and I think I did a decent job [...]
IETF http-state group created
Over at the IETF another group was just created named http-state (with an associated mailing list) with the specific goal:
Ultimately, the purpose of this group is to create an updated HTTP State Management Mechanism RFC (aka cookies) that will
A new year with new fun
I had a great and relaxing winter/Christmas holiday and hence my silence here.
I’m now back up to speed, with a podcast interview done yesterday (I’ll post another entry when it gets available), I do some funded development on libcurl and libssh2 in the background while I’m spending my days at my client’s place working on [...]
More libcurl adoption
Some recent news showing libcurl possibly widening its user-base:
Eugene V. Lyubimkin posted a suggestion that libcurl should be used by the upcoming APT release for all ftp and http accesses!
Mr Johansen at Sun told us libcurl is being