# Typica

## Version 1.6.4

Copyright © 2007–2015 Neal Evan Wilson ✉    

### Special Thanks

Ongoing development of Typica is made possible through the generous financial contributions from the following:

La Cosecha Coffee Roasters

Pinnacle Coffee Roasting

Water Street Coffee Roaster

Anonymous Funders

Hardware for developing Phidgets 1048 support was provided by Phidgets, Inc.

Special thanks also to all who have sent bug reports and feature requests.

# Preview of the Next Episode

This will likely be one of the last releases in the 1.x series. Typica 1.0 was released in 2007 and I've learned a lot from developing this, using it, and having conversations with others about how they're using this. While there is the possibility of further improvements, I believe Typica has reached a point of maturity with a feature set appropriate for many coffee roasting firms.

There is a large set of features and extensions that I have avoided implementing because the changes would have been too intrusive for the code base as it currently exists, but that feature set has become too compelling for me to leave undone. I am, therefore, attempting to spend as much time as I can on the development of Typica 2.0. This removes many of the legacy considerations and modernizes the tools and techniques used. I hope that the result is a better and more broadly useful Typica that can be maintained for another several years.

While Typica is free and will continue to be made freely available complete with all source code, there are still costs associated with ongoing development and keeping the software available. Some of the costs include:

- Obtaining and maintaining hardware appropriate for building and testing new releases
- Building and maintaining test rigs for various types of data acquisition hardware
- Maintaining the ability to test on new operating system releases
- Hosting service

There is also a huge commitment of time in developing, testing, and supporting this.

Financial support to date does not come close to covering these costs, nor has it been enough that I could consider hiring people to improve the pace and quality of ongoing development. This is fine. I have no intention of halting work on the project as my work has benefitted greatly from having this software and I expect even greater benefit from the next major release. Personally I find the new feature set exciting to work on and am willing to cover funding shortfalls when I can afford to do so.

That said, if you're finding this software to be useful in your business, if you've had a good support experience, or if you'd like to help me continue to develop this software, please consider providing some financial support to:

Neal Wilson
c/o Wilson's Coffee & Tea
3306 Washington Ave.
Racine, WI 53405
USA

Another great way to help Typica right now is to reach out to your professional colleagues and let them know that you're using Typica and what you like about it.

### License Information

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONNIFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Parts of Typica are from QextSerialPort which is used under the MIT license as follows:

Copyright © 2000–2003 Wayne Roth

Copyright © 2004–2007 Stefan Sander

Copyright © 2007 Michal Policht

Copyright © 2008 Brandon Fosdick

Copyright © 2009-2010 Liam Staskawicz

Copyright © 2011 Debao Zhang

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONNIFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Typica also makes use of the Qt framework.

Public domain icons are courtesy of the Tango Desktop Project.

Entypo pictograms by Daniel Bruce — www.entypo.com

Some charts are produced with the help of d3.js which is provided with the following license:

Copyright © 2010-2014, Michael Bostock

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- The name Michael Bostock may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL MICHAEL BOSTOCK BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.