Rob Mensching's Blog - page 29

Qik.com just hasn't been working out for me the last few weeks when I've wanted to record the WiX Working Group Wrap-up. So after multiple attempts with only 2 seconds to show for it each time I decided to try something different, Jing.

Blog posting has been oft delayed the last month since I have been been busy both at work and at home.

In my first qik, I mentioned that one of the things I was most excited about doing with Qik was a nightly "wrap-up" of the meetings on Thursday where the majority of work gets done on the WiX toolset.

Wow, how time flies. Here's a quick qik (Qik no longer available) where I quickly trace out the last 9 years.

This morning I finally posted my first set of personal videos online using qik.com. I had the qik invite for a week before posting my first video (Qik no longer available). It took a surprising amount of mental preparation to finally sit down and record myself talking to the world live. I lifted the phone up and stared into the little mirror on the back that tells me I'm in picture several times before putting it down again. I was actually nervous.

An MSBuild debilitating bug was accidentally introduced in WiX v3.0.4206.0. We got a fix in later that day and I just pushed a new build, WiX v3.0.4207.0. In case you pulled down 4206 thinking you were getting much goodness, you didn't... 4207 is much better. <smile/> Sorry for the trouble.

Last night I noticed this blog entry about the lack of Windows Installer Training courses.

I've been getting some great feedback about where people think we should take WiX v2 and WiX v3 next. It has me reconsidering some of my original short and medium term plans. I want to summarize the feedback so far and encourage others to comment if they have opinions as well.