Some various news about anyInventory, an open source inventory application I’ve been working on:

Version 1.5 was released today, with the addition of some of the label features promised in the documentation. Bug fixes are in there too, as always.

A new developer has joined anyInventory: Drew Hearle. Drew’s post on Slashdot was the inspiration for anyInventory, and now he’ll be contributing to it as well. Funny how life works, isn’t it?

Features planned for 1.6 include an improved search page, better remote file support, and timed alerts. So don’t touch that dial!

[This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]

anyInventory, an open source inventory system that I’m working on is progressing nicely. It was ranked in the 99.21 percentile for activity in SourceForge the other day, and version 1.4 was released to rave reviews (well, my own rave reviews, but that still counts). Some issues with invalid zip files were resolved by offering a tar of the source files as well.

It is now the third result when you search SourceForge for “inventory,” right behind “Inventory” and “inventory”, which is up from being on the third page of results just a week ago. If you’d like to help develop or test anyinventory, or you are having problems installing, contact chris@efinke.com.

[This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]

An upgrade to anyInventory has been released. The ability to limit your search to a category and its subcategories was added, and lots of comments were added to the code for those interested in developing. You can download anyInventory here.

[This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]

The inventory system I wrote about in my last post has come to some fruition: anyInventory 1.0 has been released. It’s only been in development for a week, but it’s got some nice features. You can play around with a test version here: http://anyinventory.sf.net/aI/

[This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]

I’ve been working on a Web-based inventory application called anyInventory for the last week or so that was inspired by this Slashdot thread. It has gotten to the point where I could release version 0.1 (or whatever). If you’d like to help test it out or would be willing to read through the help and documentation files and comment on them, e-mail me at chris@efinke.com. I’ll be releasing it officially in a few days.

[This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]

Toby Web Mail 0.5.1 was released today with fresh, Germanic goodness. Sven Kierdorf contributed a German translation, which is the only difference between this release and 0.5. Gesundheit!

Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead.

This release features one major improvement and one major featurea addition: the improvement is that support has been added for multipart messages that contain multipart sections within a section (commonly generated by Outlook for forwarded messages); the feature is the addition of thread arcs and thread navigation for e-mail conversations. You can read more about thread arcs at http://www.research.ibm.com/remail/threadarcs.html

Additionally, the WYSIWYG editor htmlArea that is used for composing HTML messages has been upgraded and included with this version of Toby.

Watch the homepage for more announcements: http://toby.sourceforge.net/

[This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]

Yesterday, Toby Web Mail 0.4.2 was released. Improvements in this version are mostly centered on the upgrade and install scripts. Also, a big fix to the email_message class – data was being lost from e-mails due to incorrect parsing. That has been fixed, so be sure to upgrade!

Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead.

I’ve released another Toby version, 0.4.1 this time. What changes have I made? Well, I’ll tell you what changes I’ve made: improved HTML message support, improved multipart message support, interface improvements (including section headers and collapsable sections) and a whole lotta extra love. Doesn’t that make you just want to download it?

Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead.

I came across a little flier the other day touting the University of Minnesota statistics on student drinking. While reading it, I felt as if the writer of said flier was trying a little too hard to make negative statistics sound posisitive. You be the judge:

• "Nearly 75% of all college students drink moderately, infrequently, or not at all."

So let me get this straight: you’re saying that only 25% of the student population are binge-drinking alcoholics? Considering what the average college student would classify as “moderate drinking,” this scares me a little.

• "Most students consume approximately less than one alcoholic drink per hour."

Hmmm… 24 hours in a day, 24 cans in a case. I’ll admit, this one was worded poorly, making it sounds as if these students are in a perpetual alcohol-induced haze, but the author probably meant to say "When drinking, ..." Either way, the word "most" shouldn’t appear in any statistics. Also, neither should "nearly" (see above).

• "95% of students usually of always employed one or more of the following protective behaviors[...]:"
• Ok, good so far.
• Determine in advance not to exceed a set number of drinks.
• “Dude, I am so totally not going to drink more than 100 cans of beer tonight!”
• Eat either before or while they drank.
• Is this really a "protective behavior"? Eating while you drink? I know that it slows the absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream, but how many students really thought "You know, in order to slow the absorption of alcohol into my bloodstream, I should really start throwing back a few of these pretzels."?

The worst part is, 5% of all drinking students didn’t do any of these. That means, out of 20 typical drinking students, there’s one among them that is not alternating non-alcoholic drinks with alcoholic drinks, determining a set amount of drinks not to exceed, eating before or during drinking, having a friend let them know they’ve had enough, pacing drinks to less than one an hour, avoiding drinking games, or drinking an alcoholic look-alike (whatever that is). This person would have to be spending the entire time playing a drinking game alone while avoiding food.

[This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]