"Google's new look" is actually "Jazz"

If you read my previous post (http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2010/04/googles-new-look.html) and found it "new" then I guess we both are late to the game. Search Engine Land already reported this new interface back in November. Thanks to the blog "Google Operating System" for the link.

I promise, next time I will only post relevant (to my blog that is) articles.

Google's new look

Sorry if this post is not relevant to my regular topics but I just couldn't resist.

Is this Google's new look? Or is this some experiment that they are running that I am seeing?

On a more related note (to my blog that is) I am currently updating a project for a fixed backend DLL for the Pantheios logger (http://www.pantheios.org) that I will upload to my Google Code project soon (i.e. at http://ossandcad.googlecode.com). Will post about that as soon as possible.

Update April 9 2010: I am currently in New Jersey and don't see the modified Google search page (that I saw from Redmond). So obviously no dramatic changes by Google. Probably just some experiment that they are running that "I" happen to be a "part" of.

CEEFIT: I miss you

I first noticed on Sep 24th that the web-site that hosts the C++ implementation of FIT (CEEFIT) was gone. I get a "DNS Error. Cannot find server" error for the URL http://ceefit.woldrich.com/. Even http://www.woldrich.com/ is no longer found, with the same error might I add.

This is not good. Indicates that the company that hosted/developed CEEFIT is gone taking some of the documentation for CEEFIT with it. While the source code for CEEFIT is still available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fit/files/, some of the implementation details that were key for me to customize various aspects of CEEFIT are no longer available. If you use any of the downloads that I provide through the "My Downloads" section, you have the necessary header files and libraries to use CEEFIT in your IntegratedTests. But you would need the original source code and documentation for any customizations.

I have emailed Dave (using an old email address I have, which unfortunately is part of the woldrich.com domain) and hope I will hear back from him. I have requested he upload the documentation for CEEFIT to sf.net and I am really, really hoping he grants wishes.

In the short term I am screwed, but fortunately there is an alternate implementation of FIT in C++ available through http://www.fitnesse.org/. I have briefly tried fitnesse and have found the requirements they place to use their library (that I learn their Wiki markup to create tests and the ability to run a HTTP server on my build machine to run the tests) quite burdensome. But if I am going to continue C++ development and want to run Integrated Tests, I guess I have no other choice. But this time, I will be careful enough to create a personal mirror of www.fitnesse.org for myself, in case this too disappears off the face of the world(wideweb).

But honestly this is one more of the reasons why I love open source. If CEEFIT was a closed source library and the company developing it, shut down, then I would definitely be screwed. Since I have the source for CEEFIT, I can continue to develop it (if I had the requisite skills, of course).

So does CEEFIT going AWOL affect you?