MySQL and SugarCRM both use WiX to create their Windows installation packages. WiX is an awesome product. WiX's original creator Rob Mensching also has a great blog here (with full text feeds I might add Robert): http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/default.aspx
Jens
· 3 years ago
Wix means "masturbate" in german. "The WiX team", made me chuckle... ;-)
Jens
· 3 years ago
oh, and please don't make a video of /that/... ;-)
scobleizer
· 3 years ago
Doug, thanks! RobMen was the guy who invited me over. I think that's him with his back to me in the photo. You'll see him in the video I shot of the team.
Drew B's take on tech PR
· 3 years ago
Do publish a vid!
Paul Wheeler
· 3 years ago
Arg. Live.com keeps getting slower and slower. I'm considering going back to start.com. The MSN team may have changed their name but they *still* haven't learned the Google lesson: Simple and Fast Wins!
scobleizer
· 3 years ago
Paul, I just talked with Sanaz. They are in the middle of replicating the changes from one server over to their servers. Give it a few hours and it should get faster.
And, yes, we're all still here in the office. Looks like it'll be an allnighter for the Live.com team since they are working on ramping up their infrastructure.
Remember that Google has the same problems when starting up a new service too, if people find it too early (did anyone remember the little trick with Gmail of only handing out a few invites every hour so that they would make sure they didn't overwhelm their infrastructure?). Heck, my son stopped using Blogger because it was too slow and that's been up and running for years now.
Give the team a day to shake the cobwebs from the system before judging the performance.
Haarball
· 3 years ago
Is this your job? What is your job?
scobleizer
· 3 years ago
I don't have a job. Jobs are things that you hate to do, but you get paid for.
I love what I am doing.
I'm sure not compensated to stay at the office from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. helping people out.
I just tried the new version and the image section shows no images in IE7 beta2.. Works fine on IE6 Please please make sure that this works in IE7 beta2
Brandon Paddock
· 3 years ago
Sanaz' team wasn't the only one working late in RedWest!
scobleizer
· 3 years ago
Brandon, ahh, toolbar and desktop search teams working late too? Damn, what did we do, hire MarkL back? :-)
Matt Augustine
· 3 years ago
There are usually a few of us over here in RedWest on the late-night schedule.
scobleizer
· 3 years ago
Ahh, cool, I should have brought pizza over. I'm still in 18. It's 1:21 a.m.
bubba
· 3 years ago
An open source Windows installer. Bobby, you guys must be so proud. Wake us when you guys release an OSS project that means something. Like say, MS Office file formats...
scobleizer
· 3 years ago
bubba: our MS Office file formats ARE open now. Or, didn't ya hear?
But, isn't it ironic that open source projects like MySQL rely on Microsoft developed technology? It MUST be evil!
Guzzard
· 3 years ago
When I first read this post, I thought, Open Source Windows? Then I read further. But, I was thinking an Open Source or Free version of Windows, nothing fancy, just something that does basic things, like Email and Web, doesn't support applications, just Live.com or such things, sorta like an applicance, but installable on any machine.
Jake
· 3 years ago
I was concerned that you all had become tree hugging bike riding environmentalists seeking rainy depressing climes.
Good to see there are a few manly men developing and deploying late at night and eating pizza. I hope that's pizza without pineapple on it.
Take that Open Source Developers. Take that Google. Microsofties still represent.
Brandon Paddock
· 3 years ago
Jake, dude, seriously. Don't diss the pizza with pineapple on it!
Brandon Paddock
· 3 years ago
Oh, and I know the Toolbar team down in california was up pretty late.
The WDS team certainly kept busy though.
I'm used to staying late when I'm working on something really interesting (Which is pretty much ALL the time). But last night I just had more company than usual =)
German
· 3 years ago
The "WiX"-team?!? I strongly recommend doing some research before chosing abbreviations like that. I mean no German-speaking person will be able to keep a straight face when hearing that term. That's why the Commodore VIC-20 whas labeled VC-20 over here, oh well...
Jørgen Veisdal
· 3 years ago
This is just the coolest thing ever, I love seing stuff like this (the one with the IE team about RSS and that one with the tablet pc team) where you guys just hang out having pizza or coke, and talking. Imagine being able to hang around with people that are all interessted in the same things you are, they are the best at what they do and you can feed of eachothers ideas in making products used by an entire industry.
To fun.
Jens
· 3 years ago
>>The “WiX”-team?!? I strongly recommend doing some research before chosing abbreviations like that. I mean no German-speaking person will be able to keep a straight face when hearing that term.
Jens
· 3 years ago
oops, sorry the quoting doesn't quite work. It decided to cut everything off after
Jens
· 3 years ago
oops it did it again. Bug report please. if you do two left facing brackets it'll cut off everything written after them.
Anyways, looks like scoble decided to just ignore my comment at #2, though international language research is important as one can see here.... ;-)
J. Random Poster
· 3 years ago
Jens,
Sounds like Microsoft is finally adopting "truth in advertising".
-jcr
Dmad
· 3 years ago
what, exactly, do you know about Live.com that enables you to help? Or do they need someone to finish off the pizza?
Ellen Wallace
· 3 years ago
This is just getting too depressing. Pizza delivery is decades behind in Europe. Could one of you unemployed guys please buy a bike, get a couple good American pizza recipes and start deliveries? I'd buy at least two a week, my son 5, each of his buddies 5-10. A fortune waiting for someone. And do improve those photos so I can see what's on your pizzas, while I wait.
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And, yes, we're all still here in the office. Looks like it'll be an allnighter for the Live.com team since they are working on ramping up their infrastructure.
Remember that Google has the same problems when starting up a new service too, if people find it too early (did anyone remember the little trick with Gmail of only handing out a few invites every hour so that they would make sure they didn't overwhelm their infrastructure?). Heck, my son stopped using Blogger because it was too slow and that's been up and running for years now.
Give the team a day to shake the cobwebs from the system before judging the performance.
I love what I am doing.
I'm sure not compensated to stay at the office from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. helping people out.
Please please make sure that this works in IE7 beta2
But, isn't it ironic that open source projects like MySQL rely on Microsoft developed technology? It MUST be evil!
Good to see there are a few manly men developing and deploying late at night and eating pizza. I hope that's pizza without pineapple on it.
Take that Open Source Developers. Take that Google. Microsofties still represent.
The WDS team certainly kept busy though.
I'm used to staying late when I'm working on something really interesting (Which is pretty much ALL the time). But last night I just had more company than usual =)
To fun.
Anyways, looks like scoble decided to just ignore my comment at #2, though international language research is important as one can see here.... ;-)
Sounds like Microsoft is finally adopting "truth in advertising".
-jcr