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...
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...
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...
Rob Mensching put up another post on Open Source stuff today. While I’m sure it is all very interesting, I find myself becoming really disappointed in Rob and his blog. Don’t get me wrong, Rob’s commentary on Open Source is certainly interesting (in moderation), but I don’t subscribe...
So, I just noticed that Rob Howard posted a couple of cool sounding positions at Telligent that they are looking to fill. http://blogs.msdn.com/rhoward/archive/2004/09/21/232682.aspx Too bad that the timeframe is 6-8 weeks…