General ’round-up’ of what has been happening……

Well, things have been busy….

Skiing:

Just got back from an excellent week of skiing at St Anton, Austria…. (see the picts – site generated using Web Photos). The place is amazing. The skiing was great and the ‘after ski’ partying was awesome.

Programming:

Work on iCalMaker 1.6, quickWebAlbum, webSiteCleaner and JPEGCleaner was finished last week and the programs were released. (Download – iCalMaker, quickWebAlbum, webSiteCleaner or JPEGCleaner)

Bug reports:

There is only one bug report on the books at the moment and this is to do with mailMaker. It appears that if an e-mail contains more that 900 characters that the program will not work on some machines. The source of this bug is currently unknown….. Worryingly mailMaker is the worst selling program on the site. It was always thought that this was because users were confusing it with software that may be used to produce SPAM, however, it now appears it may be due to an unreported bug (the bug did not show up in beta testing and I am currently unable to reproduce the bug)!

If you do encounter bugs in any of the the software please report it to bugs@mmisoftware.co.uk.

Other news:

The main website is currently undergoing a major redesign. The site has grown significantly over the last year and is in desperate need of a ‘make-over’. Watch this space for further news…..

Minor updates

Minor updates of the ‘one trick ponies‘, webSiteCleaner, JPEGCleaner and quickWebAlbum have been released. All three contain updates to the esellerate purchase engine and webSiteCleaner also contains a minor bug fix.

Download webSiteCleaner, JPEGCleaner and quickWebAlbum.

All ‘one trick ponies‘ can be purchased ($5 USD) either using the integrated eseller in the program or at the secure MMISoftware store.

Trial versions of all programs are available, just download the programs using the above links and give them a try

quickWebAlbum and JPEGCleaner updated to address some memory issues

All the programs from MMISoftware are regularly used and this process reveals problems with design/coding and also drives the future development of the software.

During the holiday period I was using quickWebAlbum and JPEGCleaner to send photos to friends and family and to create som quick online web albums. During this process it was discovered that both programs were ‘memory inefficient’ when handling large number of files, this problem has now been corrected. Also, quickWebAlbum was ‘falling over’ when it encountered pictures of a ‘weird’ size (i.e. panoramas were causing some problems).

If the programs pass final beta testing they should be released tomorrow (14th Jan 2004)…..

The beginning…

Why a weblog?

Well, I thought it would be an interesting way to keep a record of work on programs at MMISoftware and to keep users informed of current work and future developments.

Last week saw updates to all the software produced by MMISoftware. Some of the updates were a as a result of recent changes in 10.3 which ‘introduced’ a number of ‘bugs’ in JPEGCleaner, quickWebAlbum, webSiteCleaner, and Web Photos. Interestingly the bug was the same in all programs and just needed the movement of one line of code! Whilst updating the other programs Power on X was also re-compiled.

Meanwhile, work was finished on iCalMaker version 1.5. This update addressed some Panther compatibility issues and introduced a raft of new features…