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Bearing to Yerushalayim and Zmanim Map 3.0

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍11 Sep 2011 - י״ב אלול תשע״א | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The Bearing to Yerushalayim and Zmanim Map was recently updated to version 3.0. This new release adds a number of new features to the Zmanim Map version 2.0 update released in March 2010. The main change was updating the Google Map API version from the deprecated v2 to v3. This change increases performance and adds [...]

KosherJava Zmanim API Released Under the LGPL License

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍09 May 2011 - ה׳ אייר תשע״א | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

Until this point the KosherJava Zmanim API has been released under the GPL V2.0 open source license. This had the effect of forcing any application written using the library to release it’s source code under the same license. Being that the Zmanim API is a library, the LGPL is a more appropriate license. The LGPL [...]

Zmanim API Now in a Public SVN Server

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍23 Mar 2011 - י״ז אדר ב' תשע״א | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

Thanks to Jay Gindin, the Zmanim API source code is now in a publicly available SVN server. The Google Code project can be found at code.google.com/p/kosherjava. This will have a number of benefits to the project. It will more easily allow users to find the code, ensure that they have the latest code, track changes, [...]

Zmanim API 1.2.1 Released

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍30 May 2010 - י״ז סיון תש״ע | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The Zmanim API 1.2.1 was released today. Changed in this release were the addition of a few very early Tzais zmanim, and the removal of references to the GregorianCalendar in favor of the base Calendar class to ease Noah Blumenthal’s use of the Zmanim API in a zmanim application for the BlackBerry. This change has [...]

Bearing to Yerushalayim and Zmanim Map 2.0

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍14 Mar 2010 - כ״ח אדר תש״ע | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The availability of the Bearing to Yerushalayim and Zmanim Map was originally announced on December 30, 2007. At the time there were a number of bugs related to the Google Map API. These bugs were reported to Google and eventually fixed. Since that time, the only change was a minor JavaScript fix for IE. The [...]

Zmanim API 1.2 Released

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍24 Jan 2010 - ט׳ שבט תש״ע | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The Zmanim API 1.2 was released today. The only change in this release is the removal of elevation as a factor in the calculation of all zmanim besides sunrise and sunset. Updated JavaDocs now reflect these changes. Please see the Elevation Now Only Impacts Sunrise and Sunset Calculations in the Zmanim API post for additional [...]

Plans for a Zmanim API FAQ

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍05 Nov 2009 - י״ח חשון תש״ע | Filed under: Site News, Zmanim

Questions communicated to me via the contact page far exceed the number of comments in the blog. In the hope of clarifying the most common questions related to the Zmanim API and to a lesser degree other parts of this site, I plan on a series of FAQ posts that will hopefully cut down on [...]

Zmanim Calendar Generator Can Now Output Fewer Zmanim

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍18 May 2009 - כ״ד אייר תשס״ט | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

After numerous requests, the Zmanim Calendar Generator can now output a less extensive list of zmanim. While the “full” calendar option (the default) generates an Excel spreadsheet with 108 columns of zmanim, the “standard” output generates a spreadsheet with 15 columns containing the most commonly used zmanim. The exact list of what constitutes commonly used [...]

Zmanim API 1.1 Released

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍27 Mar 2009 - ב׳ ניסן תשס״ט | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The Zmanim API 1.1 was released early this morning. Information about what changed in this release can be seen in previous posts about various beta and patch releases. A last minute change involved the removal of the misheyakir calculations commonly used by the Syrian community. The removal was due to the various different minhagim used, [...]

Zmanim API 1.1 Beta 3 Released

Posted by KosherJava on ‍‍25 Feb 2009 - א׳ אדר תשס״ט | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The third beta release of the Zmanim API 1.1 is now available on the download page. The main change in this release is the addition of zmanim based on the psak of Chacham Yosef Harari-Raful of Yeshivat Ateret Torah. These zmanim were requested by members of the Syrian Community. Other changes in this release include [...]

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