Archive for the ‘Workings’ Category
So we’ve come to a new era of Firefox release schedules. Firefox 5 was released yesterday, and 6 and 7 are slated to change to Beta and Aurora modes (respectively) on July 5th. I heard somewhere that they were moving to a 10 month release cycle. Of course, I packaged Firefox 4 three months ago now, so this release was rather quick.
Anyway, I just packaged it, and am using it right now. For all the world to see, here’s the package!
I’ve gotten around to looking at the Autodesk Master Suite 2012 box that’s on my desk (it’s a folder of 32 disks). The deployment creator is now completely re-vamped, but not quite as visually appealing on the option editor. At least this time, they gave me the option to NOT install Design Review for the Architecture package.
They did something additional that makes it nicer: They ask for the license and/or server information by default. No need to go into the configuration options to put this in.
Downside: I have to reopen and re-configure for every deployment type (x86 and x64), and it doesn’t remember what I used in the previous package.
Holy. Crap.
I gotta say, MS did a number on the sequencer this time around. I just packaged SPSS 19 in less than 20 minutes, albeit unsuccessfully on the client station, but hey!
The best changes so far are:
The actually DO listen to customers, it just takes a while to get the requests in the roadmap.
State the following words to your group:
| Okay, so to wrap this up and make sure we’re all on the same page, what are we doing? What’s the plan? |
It will cause the group to realize that the meeting was not fruitless, and ensures that everyone understands their roles and functions. It means that no one can walk away from the meeting, and say, “I don’t know what’s going on”.
Personally, I’ve done the “I don’t know…” statement before, because at the end of the meeting, we never had a clear, definitive goal/mission/plan-of-action.
So don’t let this happen to you!
So I’ve been in the AppV game since it was still owned by Softricity (when it was known as SoftGrid). There were a handful of useful tools that were available to the world, for free. Kalle Sunamaki, one of the MVPs of AppV, wrote the SFT Explorer app, and on my XP sequencer station, it’s installed. I’m now at a point where I need a Windows 7 sequencer, and low and behold, he’s made SFT Explorer a (better than before) pay-for application.
But, dayjob rule #1: Don’t bother asking for software purchases from your own department, especially when that tool is specific for the job duties that are assigned to you, and no one else could benefit from it.
Basically, a useful tool just got pulled out from under me. I can try to ask for a purchase, but I can almost be guaranteed a negative answer.