News Item: : News updates and Wise script bug 150584 to be fixed in next fix pack
(Category: New releases)
Posted by dglenn
Saturday 03 February 2007 - 18:09:07
The Wisescript bug we reported in this post is finally going to be addressed. After talking to Annette K at Wise who mailed Mike Grueber on the issue Mike told her it would be fixed in the next release. This particular bug has kept my customer from moving to Wise 7 due to multiple legacy scripts that utilize the very functionality that was broken.
Today was also a clean up day for the web site. It has been upgraded to a newer version that should help eliminate some of the spambot entries that had caused us to close down the forums and comments. We also cleared out several thousand entries that had accumulated slowing down the site response.
With the release of Vista, we have not been able to get it up and running on a virtual machine yet so we have not begun testing the Hotfix Installer utility. We anticpate having to rewrite it in C# in order to optimize it for Vista. This may take several months. Not because it is overly complex, simply because we are so busy with our primary customer we don't have much time to work on things not related directly to their account. We thought momentarily about charging for this version because we had never anticipated the use or amount of support we would find ourselves giving on free code. Although the downloads from this site are not that high they have exceeded 20,000 at the Novell site where it was posted first. From the number of postcards recieved we have about 7,000 installations worldwide ranging from small companies to the DOE, Army and Air Force here in the USA along with hundreds of EDU sites. Shocking really since we never anticipated such use. Nonetheless we are not going to begin charging for it. It would make us a minor one trick shop and we don't want to be caught up having to support it full time. There are far too many other interesting projects happening to interest us. Money after all is nice, but it only goes so far.
We should be able to begin finding more time to go back to adding more links. The site has been somewhat dormant due to the work load and the fact it was never meant to be active in the sense there would be a new post or new something each day. It is merely a respository for code we wanted to share with others and so it remains in that basic role.
We will be adding a generic visual posting verifier sometime soon so comments and requests for support can be posted again. You can still use the contact information posted on the left main menu to contact us. It is still the prefered method for reaching us.
Have a great 2007 and we look forward to sharing more code this spring.
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(Category: New releases)
Posted by dglenn
Saturday 03 February 2007 - 18:09:07
The Wisescript bug we reported in this post is finally going to be addressed. After talking to Annette K at Wise who mailed Mike Grueber on the issue Mike told her it would be fixed in the next release. This particular bug has kept my customer from moving to Wise 7 due to multiple legacy scripts that utilize the very functionality that was broken.
Today was also a clean up day for the web site. It has been upgraded to a newer version that should help eliminate some of the spambot entries that had caused us to close down the forums and comments. We also cleared out several thousand entries that had accumulated slowing down the site response.
With the release of Vista, we have not been able to get it up and running on a virtual machine yet so we have not begun testing the Hotfix Installer utility. We anticpate having to rewrite it in C# in order to optimize it for Vista. This may take several months. Not because it is overly complex, simply because we are so busy with our primary customer we don't have much time to work on things not related directly to their account. We thought momentarily about charging for this version because we had never anticipated the use or amount of support we would find ourselves giving on free code. Although the downloads from this site are not that high they have exceeded 20,000 at the Novell site where it was posted first. From the number of postcards recieved we have about 7,000 installations worldwide ranging from small companies to the DOE, Army and Air Force here in the USA along with hundreds of EDU sites. Shocking really since we never anticipated such use. Nonetheless we are not going to begin charging for it. It would make us a minor one trick shop and we don't want to be caught up having to support it full time. There are far too many other interesting projects happening to interest us. Money after all is nice, but it only goes so far.
We should be able to begin finding more time to go back to adding more links. The site has been somewhat dormant due to the work load and the fact it was never meant to be active in the sense there would be a new post or new something each day. It is merely a respository for code we wanted to share with others and so it remains in that basic role.
We will be adding a generic visual posting verifier sometime soon so comments and requests for support can be posted again. You can still use the contact information posted on the left main menu to contact us. It is still the prefered method for reaching us.
Have a great 2007 and we look forward to sharing more code this spring.
This news item is from FORUM Information Systems, LLC
( http://foruminfosystems.com/news.php?extend.30 )