As you have probably been made aware by the flurry of privacy policy updates in your mailbox, GPDR is coming.
While I am not convinced GDPR will not turn into a perfect showcase for “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”, this is also a good opportunity to update BeginEnd.net to use the 64bit version of DWScript and add a few missing features.
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I have been using the feeds aggregator BeginEnd.net as more than just a news aggregator, it is also a Canary: once a new version of DWScript passes tests, it goes live there!
Latest Canary feature is for the new FastMM4 multi-threading improvements by Primož Gabrijelčič, which can be found under the Locking Improvements branch.
A few months after its launch, BeginEnd.net is now seeing about 25k queries every day for almost 500 unique visitors, and it’s time for a few polls to help me gauge things!
Non-English Blogs have been added to BeginEnd.net, not many just yet: three in Italian, one French and one Korean!
The BeginEnd.net website itself stays in English, and the posts titles & descriptions are going to be automatically-translated in English (currently through Microsoft Translator service).
Last week www.beginend.net was launched with the goal of aggregating Pascal and Delphi blogs in a mobile-friendly, secure website with a minimalist UI.
The website is Pascal-Powered: the server is Delphi-compiled DWScript Sample Web server, the server-side page generation and APIs are handled by DWS and an SQLite database, and the client-side is a SmartPascal application compiled on-the-fly to JavaScript by the server.