Contour / News: Recent posts

The ability to define remote webservers to submit catch data to is now integrated. This allows boats to send catch reports directly to secure onshore data centers. Get the latest code from CVS and set the webserver address in the Preferences dialog.

Source release including Mozilla/Apache/PHP data entry to PostgreSQL back-end, GPS integration, autoconf, tons of new features as well as performance and stability fixes.

With the new autoconf code installation, trying out Contour is as easy as getting the source from cvs and typing ./configure; make!

With no release in a while, cvs has been updated to include the latest stable work with Mozilla's Gecko technology working with Apache/PHP for data entry chores. This framework looks to a future where many distributed parties in a variety of fisheries are collaborating through port 80!

Binary release for Linux only includes GPS support, lots of speed-ups, bug fixes, memory leak plugs and the like.

Contour now supports all NMEA-standard GPS units. Many thanks to the creators and supporters of the gpsd project.

I've added a <a href="http://contour.sourceforge.net/vision.php">case study</a> to the web-site that helps to get a feel for the "Big Picture" (tm).

Download the binary release of Contour to try it out on your Linux system. If you want the source code, grab it out of CVS as I haven't had a chance to make a source tarball yet.