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...
The last few days have been pretty interesting around the WiX Toolkit community, and I guess I’ve been the catalyst for most of the commotion. A lot of folks have been following along as I publicly aired by feelings about some of Rob Mensching’s comments on COM Advertising, but what you may...
Yesterday I mentioned some discussion on the WiX Toolkit mailing list about the use of COM Advertising support and the challenges that go along with it. Rob Mensching argued that the tables which enable this functionality should be avoided due to some “strange behavior” that he has seen....
I’m getting beat up a little bit on the WiX Toolkit mailing lists . L It seems that since I’ve been questioning some issues ( here and here ), and now Rob and Orion think I’m on a war-path. They’ve got me all wrong. I’ve given tons of time to helping other people solve their...
A while back, I posted a code sample on my blog that demonstrated how to implement MsiSetExternalUI in VB6. That post certainly got a lot of hits, but there was a catch that quickly came back to haunt me. The sample I provided worked like a champ in the VB6 IDE, but caused your app to crash when it was...
The Windows Installer validation tool I’ve been babbling about for a few days now is available for download on DeployNow ! Stop by and check it out: http://www.deploynow.com/Articles/Details.aspx?ID=2 I’ve even enhanced it a bit more to allow for either delimited text output, or xml. Included...
It seems Joel on Software is really showing his true colors with his shallow and horribly ignorant comments about independent consultants. Thankfully Christopher Hawkins has set him straight . I'll have to take a few minutes to relate my experiences regarding Joel on Customer Service sometime...