Wednesday, January 27, 2010

New SlickRun Beta, New Mezer Build

SlickRun v4.0.4 beta has been released here: http://www.bayden.com/dl/sr-setup-beta.exe
The only meaningful change in this version is the addition of a new token you can use in the idle display's custom date formatting-- %wk% will be replaced with the week # of the current year.
This has been a semi-popular request over the years as such information is commonly used by a variety of professionals. Unfortunately, I think each industry may prefer slightly different behaviors, so for now I've implemented just one to try it out.

The first week of the year that includes a Monday will be treated as Week #1. If January 1st falls on a Tuesday, for instance, then Jan1-5 will be treated as Week #0. On the other hand, if January 1st falls on a Monday, then there is no "week 0" that year. Unfortunately, there's no good way for SlickRun to know about holidays, so systems that require such knowledge cannot be presently supported.

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I've also released an updated version [v2.0.5] of Mezer Tools @ (www.bayden.com/mezer). The only difference in the new build is that both Mezer and Docker.dll opt-in to DEP/ASLR. Unfortunately, because docker.dll is in constant use, the only way to update it is to uninstall Mezer, reboot, and then install the newest Mezer.