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Status update, June 2012

I have been quiet a while. This is mostly because I have been busy IRL (like always).

However, there are some things which I have done lately:

  • Most notably I ported GNAT to Debian armhf. It is available from Debian armhf repositories already, but you can still fetch my original …
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Ahven 2.2 released

This (2.2) is long overdue bug fix release for Ahven. Ahven.XML_Runner had same bug as Ahven.Text_Runner and this release fixes it. Now your XML test result files should have skipped tests correctly reported. Another bigger change is API documentation generator change from Adabrowse to Sphinx.

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Building custom Arduino LCD shield to be used with AVR-Ada

Using 16x2 LCD display for text output purposes is sometimes more convenient than serial communication via UART/USB.

But if you do the wiring on the breadboard you get quite a mess:

So, I wanted to create a shield for Arduino to make the LCD usage easier.

AVR-Ada includes library …

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Year 2011 summary

When it comes to Ada and its community, last year (2011) was pretty interesting to me. Here is a small summary what I managed to do:

  • I did three Ahven releases (1.9, 2.0, and 2.1). I had hoped to do yet another (2.2), but didn't find …
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New year coming, new blogging engine also

Like others, I am slowly converting all my documentation into reStructuredText. I did it earlier for documentation of Ahven and now I changed my blog to it also.

For blogging, I decided to use Pelican, which generates static blog pages from a set of reStructuredText files.

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