Engine Updates

CookieCat 2012.01.26 (???)
new source code only engine by Steven J Edwards
Pascal source
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31633927/CookieCat/CookieCat.pas (Pascal source)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31633927/CookieCat/ReadMe (readme file)

Chess News

Bihasa 3.1 (WB)
variant engine for playing Capablanca and Gothic Chess on a 10x8 board size
by Deuterium author Ferdinand Mosca
- fixed analyze command
- added SEE-static exchange evaluator for move ordering and prunning
- modify pawn piece square tables
- increase evaluation scores for archbishop and chancellor that are close to opp king
- modify king attack combination evaluation scores
- improved time control handling
- "there could be some strength improvement"
http://sites.google.com/site/deuteriumengine/downloads-1

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- update PGN programs: gameNum, gameSplit, tagList
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Asterisk homepage down for 84 days
BBChess homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
ChessAlex homepage is down for 37 days
Dann Corbit homepage down for 213 days
Junior homepages down today (no response in 60 seconds)

Wiki Changes
Nothing new today

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Warnings:
- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

Ext JS 4.1 Beta 2
free version of the open source cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications
- this is a *beta* release
http://www.sencha.com/ (homepage)
http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/ (info)
http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/download/ (download)

GPartEd Live 0.11.0-10
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

Lunascape 6.6.0 for Windows
free browser with all 3 major rendering engines: IE(Trident)+Firefox(Gecko)+Chrome/Safari(Webkit)
developers can preview web pages side-by-side using the 3 different rendering engines
http://www.lunascape.tv/

Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 RC 1
free, open source Python IDE plugin supporting CPython and IronPython; NumPy & SciPy;
parallel & clustering support; debugging; profiling; more
- this is a *release candidate*
http://pytools.codeplex.com/

Vala/Genie 0.15.1
Vala language resembles C# and Genie language resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala/Genie
this is the *developmental* branch (beta)
- support arrays with nullable elements
- add <doc> support to .gir reader and writer
- switch clutter-gtk-1.0 bindings to .gir
- switch gio-2.0 bindings to .gir
- add cogl-pango-1.0 bindings
- add gdl-3.0 bindings
- add libnl-3.0 bindings
- add packagekit-glib2 bindings
- add xtst bindings
- many bug fixes and binding updates
http://www.mail-archive.com/vala-list@gnome.org/msg08120.html (announcement)
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)

Meaning of Colors

Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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