I’ve had a lot of people asking me lately what has become of the DeployNow .com site and more importantly, about Smoke – my Windows Installer validation tool. As enthusiastic as I was about building a community site for installation developers, the idea just didn’t take off on it’s...
Last Wedenesday, Amanda and I got the phone call that everyone dreads. The details were vague and sketchy, but in a shaky and uncertain voice, my Mother-In-Law informed us that my Brother-In-Law Zach had been in an accident and she needed to go with the police to identify his body. Zach and two of his...
If you’ve been following along , I am trying to recover some money that I paid for web design work that I ultimately learned had been stolen from http://www.creative.com by Shayna McCullough under the name of a non-existent company called Iconic Media. Early on in the process, I went to guru.com...
A few months agao, I contracted a “company” that goes by the name “Iconic Media” through http://www.guru.com to design a new site for an eCommerce project of mine which was to be launched at http://www.xambi.com . A woman named Shayna McCollough was the one and only person from...
So, after all that ruckus with Rob Mensching about COM Advertising from before Christmas, and my sincere gesture to clear the air , it seems that nothing is really resolved after all. Just before I posted my very nice attempt at clearing the air, I put together a little sample that exactly duplicated...
Ha! Ha! Thanks for the laugh Justin ! Seriously now. How anyone can come to the conclusion I have a secret agenda to promote some other product when I am in the process of contributing smoke, and fighting hard to keep features working with WiX Toolkit is a mystery to me, but I guess stranger things have...
Wow! Robert McLaws and Jeff Julian just wrapped up their WebCast: “Provider Model: The Flexible Design Pattern of ASP.NET 2.0”. Not only was it a great presentation, but two really cool new things also were announced: Robert announced that InterScape is releasing a Provider Model framework...
So – I was searching out some new music on MSN Music today with WMP10. I did a quick search for Smile Empty Soul, and of course found the album right away. The problem is that what I got was sort of like some search results. It had two albums displayed near the bottom with identical images and...
A recent topic in the msi newsgroups has focused around implementing a Windows Installer debugger or validation engine in VB6. Conceptually, this isn't all that tough. The concept focus around a successful implementation of the MsiSetExternalUI method and the companion callback. Basically, the steps...
I’m really happy to formally announce the launch of my new deployment related community site! http://www.deploynow.com Basically, the site is a place for me to post articles on deployment technologies, write about tools and technologies, and to host a forum in which I can help others in the community...