Microsoft released a blog editor (ref, ref)
2006-08-16 Update Don Dodge has a good review of it.
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Blogged with Flock
This week
* Interview Quality Assurance Engineers and Software Test Automation Engineer applicants
* More focus on Flock support issues and infrastructure
* Follow up with people that have volunteered their time
* Continue work on getting submissions to Flock’s extensions catalog handed in a timely manner and other infrastructure issues
* Flock 0.7.3 release scheduled for mid week
Last week
* Work on extensions catalog
* Testing of Flock 0.7.3 in development
* Considering QA applicants resumes
* Lost more than a day to a hard disk failure, and the replacement disk also being bad
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Blogged with Flock
I never was mentioned in the pathetic Flock Sucks blog during its life as one of WordPress.com‘s most popular blogs. Today, I had my first snarking by the silver standard [1] of valley snark, Valleywag:
About three weeks ago we released Flock beta 1. Some friends have asked me what “Flock beta 1″ means.
I worked with Daryl today on getting the Flocktails extension into Flock’s extension catalog. I apologize for my team in not getting this in the catalog for launch of Flock Beta 1 with an extension catalog that supports voting and user submissions. We wanted to.
This is a great extension and will be more useful as Microformats are adopted — they are being adopted with an accelerating rate it seems. I am excited to use an extension that uses the Flock’s topbar. This was reported by Factoryjoe when Flocktails was first made available. It now has a home in Flock’s extension catalog, and microformats are at home on more sites, for example Flickr, Upcoming.org and Yahoo! Local.
Wow, we have come a long way! The product has had fantastic evolution in the four months since our last major release. I now have the most fun and productive web experience I have ever had.
Milestone 11 is here:
MSWin, MacOS Universal, Linux
* If you are running a recent milestone build, you should have already been informed of an update.
The milestone build is the best way to stay up to date. Our testing team tests to make sure that Flock is working well. Download the milestone build and you will stay up to date with additional fixes right through to the release.
The first beta of Flock should be available within the next couple of weeks. We do not know exactly when, because we are still testing and making sure it will match our and your expectations of experience and quality.
We are a small team and you have made a huge contribution to getting us here! Flock is yours, and the open source code ensures that.
Our team has grown, and we continue to hire leaders in our fields. We are still going to break rules and take risks, but I think we have reached a critical mass of experience in our team that will mean our next release cycle will have significantly more opportunity for collaboration and contribution.
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It is the time in a release cycle when I take a first pass of making sure the people that have made Flock happen are in the credits for this release.
For 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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(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.
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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