Monthly Archives: April 2006

Flock “Cardinal” coming soon

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flock-cereal-box.jpgFor Flock community members reporting bugs against Flock 0.5.14 , I have started letting them know that the next major release is almost ready.

This release will be the first general beta of Flock. I am very excited!

If you are technically savvy and want to give it a try, go to http://tinderbox.flock.com to check the build status, and click on Download Continuous Test Builds your OS download of the most recent milestone. If you have tried the previous versions, the technology previews, you may be surprised by how much Flock has improved.

Look for the next release of Flock in the cereal asle in May.

20060510 Update: the milestone builds will now upgrade to the next one when it is available.

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You know you are in trouble when …

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(20:41:22) lloyd: RobinSlomkowski: go to bed ;-)

(20:42:24) RobinSlomkowski: lloyd: thanks for the advice! I am in the lost zone, I only slept two hours this morning

(20:42:41) RobinSlomkowski: I think it was two hours it was more than 1 windows build cycle

(20:44:05) lloyd: LOL

(20:44:24) lloyd: you know you are in trouble when you start measuring your sleep in mswin builds

(20:45:54) senatorhatty: lloyd in space you need to measure time differently. Win builds are as good a measure as any

(20:46:05) lloyd: LOL

(20:46:46) senatorhatty: when you need smaller time measures you end up with MicrowinBuilds and NanoWinBuilds

Julia was sitting beside me and asked what I was laughing about.

Ubuntu desktop OS next release is now in beta

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Powered by UbuntuUbuntu, the operating system for everyone

Today, the Ubuntu team reached an important milestone for their next version. It is now in beta, and in two months will be ready for everyone. There are no announcements with shiny — help me out here people!

Ubuntu is a desktop operating system like Windows XP and Mac OS X. What makes it special is it costs nothing, and anyone who wants to get look under the hood.

This release is special because you can both run it from a CD, and if you like it, you can install from that CD. You are automatically notified when there are security updates, and you will never be charged.
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Thank the weekend Flock!

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Flock Bug Hunting

This weekend, a lot of bugs have been updated, and not by staff members of the Flock team. I am ecstatics. Volunteer contribution says to me that Flock matters!

Brent Ozar has lit up the testing by reporting and verifying 17 bugs this weekend! Not to be outdone, Jon Homan did 14 bugs. New to the Flock testing community is Dinesh Cyanam who did 11 bugs. One bug is different from the next, but my guess is that these efforts each represents at least a day’s work.

Jeongkyu Kim has a bit different approach. Since the beginning of the month he has done a bug every couple of days.

Thank you Flock testing team!

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Blog editor is feature complete

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Flock blog editor for CardinalErwan writes in an email to me, ‘I think we can consider the blog module as "feature complete", and start the testing. If you’re OK, I’ll write a blog post to describe the changes and ask everyone to test on their platform and report bugs.’

So while I wait for the sun to reach Japan again, and for Erwan to write that blog post, I have updated the continuous testing builds status page for Cardinal.

Update 2006-04-22: blogging is back in development as we change blogging engines for usability and performance reasons.

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Michael Arrington and Techcrunch

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TechCrunch BBQ: Riya Launch Party

If you you go out on the Web tonight, you will be in for no surprise, Michael Arrington will have written up…

a thorough review of the latest web product, service, or project.

For some reason, every other search I did this weekend, Michael’s Techcrunch was in the top five results. One reason is that what Michael writes is very relevant to my work and passions, and evidently many others.

I have had the great pleasure of meeting this incredible person multiple times.

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Flockstars testing Flock

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Flock Bug Hunting

If only I could write as fast as I think. No, writing is not the main problem. It is describing my thoughts in a concise way.

Describing incorrect behavior (symptoms) of software in a concise way is what reporting a bug is. Bug hunting is not easy.

Testing for the next release of Flock ("Cardinal") has started. Flock is lucky to have some amazing bug hunters!

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