State of the Co-Authoring World
News ·Friday August 17, 2007 @ 23:25 EDT (link)
2007-08-09: (Honey) Twit of the day: Silver BMW on 124th St., passed on double yellow lines, with her doing 50 in a 45 already. WA 560 MFX.
20070724: Bought co-authoring T-shirt. It arrived Friday (the 27th), from Zazzle.com; I was going to use CaféPress, but they had problems with some trademarks in the content. I have the only one, since nobody else can come to consensus on what they want it to say, or political correctness, or somesuch, gets in the way. (It says We'll Make Random Things Happen To Your Documents: Microsoft Word Co-Authoring, with Apply Updates on the back; the front has some of the co-authoring UI and the back has a picture of a lightning strike over a lake.)
20070729: Another co-authoring check-in (also on the 22nd); finally all tests have run and succeeded, matched in the baseline, or failure explained as SEP—first check-in was a few weeks ago, many internal changes; for testing, we'll allow co-authoring of files on Windows (or Samba, I suppose - any SMB/CIFS server) shares (gated by a registry key so it doesn't impede normal testing). The rendering code has been hooked up to the WAC server that I built.
20070801: Can efficiently push locks to server.
20070806: I think LaHaye/Jenkins' Glorious Appearing (in the same serious as the infamous Left Behind) should be renamed Glorious Truckloads of Cash, since they're probably raking it in hand over fist... and now prequels! We're watching the BBC Planet Earth series; astounding photography. Picked up some Guy Gavriel Kay books that I had on hold from the library (King County delivers to Duvall!) Also re-reading Weis and Hickmans' Dragonlance Chronicles, begnning with Dragons of Autumn Twilight (recommended reading order).
20070811, 12: Visited Pollocks in Pullman, saw their new land (nice ~40 acre parcel in Idaho bordering national and state forest), games (New York Chase, Stock Ticker), etc. Dog much better behaved. Had a lot of fun as always. Hope to have Uncle D. stay here when he's in town for some conferences.
20080818: Checked in latest co-authoring changes; stayed late to investigate a somewhat egregious bug (albeit with easy workarounds) that slipped through the cracks. Created a demo build which our PM installed for other Office folk to play with, which was well received.
Millennium Digital Media (MDM), our Internet provider, is having trouble keeping our connection up—there have been frequent prolonged outages over the last few days (since about Tuesday). I called them and they said they were done messing with it (funny, no outage notifications on their site), but it went down again tonight for a while.
