Ada Rocks

Some time ago I have wrote a note about Ada Server Faces which is now updated to 0.4.0 version tag.

Now ASF supports client browser preffered locale encoding settings, and major update from this version to me is that ru_RU.UTF-8 letters in ASF views also supported.

Stephen Leake updated org.debian.ada-reference-manual for draft 17 of the Ada 2012 Language Reference Manual

The news story is that Ludovic Brenta1 accepted packaging of dh-ada-library tool written by Nicolas Boulenguez2 via commit in ViewMTN: Revision [49dd1fc2..]

The tool itself can help packaging Ada libraries for uploading into Debian/Ubuntu repositories. Packaging in Debian package format can give many benefits for any Ada developer, since it provides a way to separate software package development and software package maintenance.

• 1. Ludovic Brenta is a maintainer of Ada packages in Debian since July 2003, became a full Debian Developer in 2006
• 2. Nicolas Boulenguez announced dh-ada-library 1.0

AdaCore : The GNAT Pro Company has got a new redesigned web site, very nice to see.

New article from Benjamin M. Brosgol arrived at 4/2/2012 7:24 PM EDT and named Trimming cost and size: The software side of the story:

A key to cost reduction is to prevent errors from getting into the code in the first place or, if that fails, to detect and remove the errors before the software gets fielded.

EE Times has published 3/24/2012 1:24 AM EDT an article titled Security fundamentals for embedded software written by David Kalinsky: "During embedded systems software design, you can enhance software security by keeping several fundamental ideas in mind"

Even if your device is not connected to the Internet, you need to protect it from malicious attacks. Here are some simple protections you can institute to make your system more impenetrable.

EE Times published at 3/18/2012 5:01 PM EDT a very straightaway article The education of embedded systems software engineers: failures and fixes by Robert Dewar from AdaCore