After 5 versions of the free version of the autoresponder I finally decided to stop working on it. The main problem is that I don't have time to develop 2 versions of the script. It's also hard to know that there's something that I could really improve but I never have time to do so. It's better for me to focus only on the professional version. I'll keep the download link for a while.
The post today is to announce "vaporgrade". I've been working on version 1.4 of the Professional version of the AR. Right now, I have 50% done from my Todo list. The plan is to fix some small bugs (don't know if people would ever notice them) and add just a small number of new features without any bugs (soooo naive). Humble goals since I only have night time to code on it. Pragmatic as hell.
This tough schedule brings to my mind that we are always striving to be more productive. Well, at least people who do programming are obsessed about it. That said let me shout: Emacs rulez!!
I mentioned in a previous blog that I was already making use of Emacs. The great thing about it is that you can learn a new keystroke or shortcut or even some elisp code everyday. Small doses for me.
Before starting real code in the morning I always try to eat a sandwich and learn something new. Emacs (and elisp) is on my top list. You learn a new function and you wonder: Ow God, how miserable my life was before!
I'm in love with Emacs. Can't go back to products like Eclipse or Komodo anymore. Right now my problem with Emacs resides in the spaces and tabs territory. It would be a piece of cake to solve it if it was not for my completely ignorance (yet!) with Emacs Lisp. All I have is a disaster that brings me shame everytime I see my .emacs file. PHP and Python modes among copy and paste code from the internet. Newbie!! Now I have to learn elisp.
Emacs? Lisp? Ain't the title about Ubuntu??
Yes it is!
Well, I'm a huge fan of Ubuntu. Can't go back to Windows anymore.
There's only one thing that pisses me off. Wireless is a nightmare. Here's the saga. Installed Ubuntu 7.04. No wireless. After reading some tutorials and hundreds of posts it finally worked! Worth mentioning that Ubuntu Forums is an awesome place. Update to Ubuntu 7.10. Wireless broken. Here I go again... forums, blogs... wireless back. Ubuntu 8.04? Guess?? Wireless broken again. Hell. Ok, this time just one blog for the rescue. Everything back to normal, then... update in the kernel plus a few more fixes and not for the first time something happened. Guess?? Again?? Wireless.
I hate to copy and paste solutions from forums. I need to understand why things are the way they are. That's why everytime the Internet on Ubuntu stops I need to re-read tips and recipes and be remembered that I'm no wireless network whiz.
I'm not lazy. I can tell you that. The problem is on my focus. I don't wanna loose my current focus and order some books about wireless on Amazon so I can have internet, so I can study elisp (and power of spaces and tabs whenever I want), so I can go back to PHP and Python.
I can only hope that Intrepid Ibex finally have wireless network working out of the box.
Too much whining today. Guess I'm pissed about my passport and PF here in Brazil. As an angel said to me about PF: "there's no sense of customer service".
Just added one more note at the Programming PHP book section. I have already lots of notes written in small pieces of paper between the pages of the book. Not only in the PHP book but I'm starting to be compulsive about that. Better stop with PHP. Anyway, the main problem, as always, is that it takes me too much time to write all comments or any other content in the website. I guess I need a CMS.
2008/05/26
Just added another note in the Programming PHP book. I need not only a CMS but some script to transform the code into XHtml. Kinda of a parser. Right now all code have just one color. It's hard to read.
Awake Autoresponder Free Version 0.5 is now ready for download.
Please, check here to download the installation file.
The reason version 0.5 of the free autoresponder is not ready yet for download is that I was working (I only have a few hours at night) on the product documentation. From now on it will be online. This is a better approach since it's easier for me to make corrections, post updates and new relevant data. All users will have the most up-to-date information text.
While I was importing the text to Xhtml I realize it was time to upgrade the old copyright license. All code is now under the General Public License (GPLv3).
Ok, this is my view here in São Paulo (Brazil). We have windows despite the fact that my boss did not read Peopleware --
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
It's not really a problem since I bother him about a chapter or two in a daily basis.
Well, the reason I'm writing is to announce that a new version of the free autoresponder is ready. Version 0.5. The download will be available within a few days.
For the end user the script will look and feel the same. The main improvement is behind the curtains and will benefit users outside America and Western Europe. All code is now in utf-8 and should work fine in the east. Thanks for all users from Japan and Russia for the requests and tips.
For the sake of technical curiosity I've worked on small modifications in the code. You can read refactoring. Since my main focus is on my regular job there's no much time left to develop fancy new features. I aimed at utf8, xhtml and PHP5. Done. It works.
Well, at least I set all website for utf8 and xhtml.
