Category Archives: Flock

Microsoft released a blog editor, Windows Live Writer

Microsoft released a blog editor (ref, ref)

2006-08-16 Update Don Dodge has a good review of it.

technorati tags:blog editor, blog client, windows, microsoft, microsoft live

Blogged with Flock

WIP Monday, 20060717

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 [...]

My first snarking

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:

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Flock beta 1 means?

About three weeks ago we released Flock beta 1. Some friends have asked me what “Flock beta 1″ means.

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Flocktails brings Microformats to Flock

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 [...]

Flock “Cardinal” Milestone 11, first beta of Flock is near

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 [...]

People testing Flock and much deserved credit

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.
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Flock “Cardinal” coming soon

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 [...]

You know you are in trouble when …

(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 [...]

Thank the weekend Flock!

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 [...]