Wyatt Says...

Today I changed the style of wyDay.com to be much brighter. I felt that if this site didn’t burn out your retinas while simultaneously giving you a cavity, then it just wasn’t good enough.

A notable addition to the site is the open source list. It lists the dedicated pages for VistaMenu, SplitButton, wyUpdate Client, and some of my older projects.

I’ve also uploaded version 1.0 final of wyBuild (a.k.a. InstantUpdate). I’ll have a blog post later on explaining all of the many changes. But, for now, just download wyBuild and begin exploring. It was designed to be easy to use right out of the box.

The time has come to ditch my utterly worthless webhost, GoDaddy, for an ostensibly better one. GoDaddy has shown their worthlessness fleetingly over the past year from denial of service attacks to their frequent database mismanagement, all in all adding up to several days of lost work. Their revolting ineptness peaked this last week. GoDaddy recently fiddled with the configuration of their FTP servers effectively denying me all access to the files on wyDay.com.

This latest gaff on GoDaddy’s part comes at a particularly bad time for me – I was in the process of releasing the InstantUpdate Release Candidate. This release will fix huge problems in both the designer and the client, while also having enough stability to be used in production environments. I’ve spent so much time on it that I was dying to put up some screenshots of it – it’s that nice to look at and use. Alas, GoDaddy has foiled my plans; three months of work in the making has been delayed by GoDaddy’s idiocy.

Once I change from this lousy webhost I’ll release the latest version of InstantUpdate. Until then, I’ll continue to pound away at my code.

Stay tuned for the continuing saga.

CueSharp v0.4.6 corrects a minor issue with the end lines on Unix machines vs. Windows machines. I’ve opted to change ‘\r\n’ (the windows type endline) to the more general C# function ‘Environment.NewLine.’ This will allow for correct output whether you’re using CueSharp with Mono on Linux or the vanilla .NET framework on Windows.

In other news, the site has undergone some minor performance and graphical tweaks in preparation for the (long-delayed) forum. If all goes to plans, the forum will be up this weekend (Feb. 24-25).

Lastly, my Water World article drew some interesting responses from people. Mostly negative, in fact. I wonder if these people realized that it wasn’t an exposition on the cons of water conservation, but rather a damnation of a misguided fool. Probably not. These people likely also think the caricature I painted of myself is reality, and not lifted straight from the pages of Charles Dickens. Patrick Stewart would be disappointed.