Franz Tech Corner News
October, 2014
In this issue
AllegroCache v3.0 Now Available!
New features in v3.0
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- SMP Optimized -- perform simultaneous operations on index btrees
- Compressed Indexes -- reduces database size by up to 50%
- Regex Cursors -- efficiently match string values against regular expressions
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Read the press release here
Read the AllegroCache product page here
Tech Corner Article: Mac OS X 10.10 Update Guidelines
Please review the Tech Corner Articles for guidelines on updating
Allegro CL for Yosemite.
Allegro CL 9.0 users simply need to update, as described here in the 9.0 Installation Guide (updating the
GTK Framework is automatic once the update has be done in 9.0).
Allegro CL 8.2, The new Yosemite operating system breaks Allegro CL
8.2 (so it will not start at all) and also breaks the previously
distributed version of the GTK Framework.
Free Express v9.0, If you are currently running Allegro CL 9.0
Express, you should update prior to installing Mac OS X 10.10. If you
have already installed Mac OS X 10.10, please follow instructions in
the article. You can also download the recently updated Express
version.
Read the Tech Corner articles here, and here
Tech Corner Article: New Allegro CL Express For All Platforms Updated
An updated version of Allegro 9.0 Express (our free version of
Allegro CL 9.0) is now available. It has all updates and patches as
of October 15, 2014, including all updates necessary to run on MacOS X
10.10.
Express users should download the new
version starting from here
Gruff v5.5 - Now Available
New Features include:
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The new command "File | Export Displayed Data As | GML (Graph Modeling
Language)" exports the displayed triples along with some graphical
information to a GML file, which could then be loaded into other
software such as Cytoscape or Gephi to explore the layout algorithms
and stylistic options of other graph viewing tools.
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"Link | Display Paths Between Two Nodes" will now find
paths between every pair of nodes in the group of highlighted nodes
when there are highlighted nodes and no selected node. The path
lengths are then limited by the new option "Visual Graph Options |
Finding Paths Between Nodes | Maximum Path Length for Highlighted
Group".
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The new user option "Global Options | Include All Predicates as
Choices" causes "Global Options | Select Current Predicates" to list
all of the predicates that are in the store as choices, rather than
listing only the predicate of triples of the nodes that have been
browsed so far.
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The user option "Global Options | Miscellaneous | Display Graph-Part
Reification" now saves its value separately for each store, so that
you can turn it on only for stores that contain graph-part reification
triples (since searching for them takes significant time). If you
have turned this option on, then you will need to turn it on again for
the stores that need it.
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When browsing the DBPedia SPARQL endpoint, the graphical query view
now has a second example, which illustrates nested grouper boxes for
UNION and OPTIONAL groups.
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The new command "Global Options | Miscellaneous | Remove Old Stores
from Options File" allows you to clean out no-longer-used stores from
your options file, in case it has grown very large.
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In the "Global Options | Namespace Abbreviations" dialog, you can now
temporarily comment out some of the mappings by placing a
hash/pound/scratch character (#) at the start of the line.
See the full list of new features and improvements in
the release notes.
AllegroGraph 4.14 Now Available
New features include:
- Redesigned Query Interface for AGWebView. The interface has
enhanced functionality and includes a CANCEL button to easily allow
user to cancel uncompleted queries. See notes in the WebView
Documentation
- AGWebView's SPARQL query user interface now supports query log
viewing, query plan inspection and reports additional details about
query execution such as query time and warnings
- Enhanced auditing and end user security capabilities
See the full list of new features and
improvements in the release notes.
Harold Cohen receives the ACM "Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art"
The Distinguished Artist Award is awarded annually to an artist who
has created a substantial and important body of work that
significantly advances aesthetic content in the field of digital art.
See here for information on the ACM SIGGRAPH Awards.
See here for information on Aaron, the Digital Artist.
YouTube - The Allegro CL and AllegroGraph Channels
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Certification enroll in our LIVE Program which offers developers an
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Lisp Programming Series Level I: Basic Lisp Essentials - November 5, 12, and 19
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December 4, 11, and 18
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