News Item: : Quick Update
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Posted by sgt-d
Thursday 06 May 2010 - 21:24:52
Sorry for any inbox intrusions, and sorry for any and all delays... I know you've all heard it a million times: real life!
I've been caught in the crosshairs a little lately and it's sucking me dry. Weird, normally that's a goal.
Anyway, here it is.
MCP is still active. I will admit outright that most of my work has been trying to support BlackBerry devices and user problems that are entirely out of the scope of what MCP was designed to do. I have been trying to help users unlock their phones and also helping revive otherwise dead devices.
While all that has been going on, phone contracts around the house have expired so I have been focused on the other users here and trying to tie them to a device that is "next gen" compared to what they had previously. They started out with Palm Pre's but I quickly moved them to droid devices because of the problems with the Pre device and the parent company. Google it if you don't already know about it.
As some of you know I switched from a Curve 83xx to a Storm2 9550 in November of last year. A week ago I had an opportunity to test drive the HTC Droid Incredible so I deactivated the Storm2 and let someone else at work test drive it.
So I have a week left on the other devices here at the house and about 3 weeks left on the droid test drive I'm doing.
That's only part of it! I also revived an old "pet project" from 1997 called "Water VIS" for Quake (patches to re-vis maps for clear water) @ http://quakewatervis.com/
Of course none of this has anything to do with MCP. I'm still keeping track of changes that need to be made, none are major, and the latest betas including Beta Se7en have had almost NO bug reports, so that is a HUGE PLUS!
I hope to finish 0930 soon, maybe in the next two weeks and then I will be looking at a FINAL 1.0 build beyond that. This is a direct reflection on my "normal" software development model which has always been to make somethiing stable, even if it takes years, let people test it and find problems and fix everything before releasing a "1.0" version. It only makes sense, and I think people appreciate that I'm not trying to "rush it out the door".
Again, sorry for the delays! MCP does NOT require an activated BB so even if I switch to a different device I will still be able to test everything on my older BlackBerry devices.
This news item is from BlackBerry Master Control Program (MCP)
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(Category: Main)
Posted by sgt-d
Thursday 06 May 2010 - 21:24:52
Sorry for any inbox intrusions, and sorry for any and all delays... I know you've all heard it a million times: real life!
I've been caught in the crosshairs a little lately and it's sucking me dry. Weird, normally that's a goal.
Anyway, here it is.
MCP is still active. I will admit outright that most of my work has been trying to support BlackBerry devices and user problems that are entirely out of the scope of what MCP was designed to do. I have been trying to help users unlock their phones and also helping revive otherwise dead devices.
While all that has been going on, phone contracts around the house have expired so I have been focused on the other users here and trying to tie them to a device that is "next gen" compared to what they had previously. They started out with Palm Pre's but I quickly moved them to droid devices because of the problems with the Pre device and the parent company. Google it if you don't already know about it.
As some of you know I switched from a Curve 83xx to a Storm2 9550 in November of last year. A week ago I had an opportunity to test drive the HTC Droid Incredible so I deactivated the Storm2 and let someone else at work test drive it.
So I have a week left on the other devices here at the house and about 3 weeks left on the droid test drive I'm doing.
That's only part of it! I also revived an old "pet project" from 1997 called "Water VIS" for Quake (patches to re-vis maps for clear water) @ http://quakewatervis.com/
Of course none of this has anything to do with MCP. I'm still keeping track of changes that need to be made, none are major, and the latest betas including Beta Se7en have had almost NO bug reports, so that is a HUGE PLUS!
I hope to finish 0930 soon, maybe in the next two weeks and then I will be looking at a FINAL 1.0 build beyond that. This is a direct reflection on my "normal" software development model which has always been to make somethiing stable, even if it takes years, let people test it and find problems and fix everything before releasing a "1.0" version. It only makes sense, and I think people appreciate that I'm not trying to "rush it out the door".
Again, sorry for the delays! MCP does NOT require an activated BB so even if I switch to a different device I will still be able to test everything on my older BlackBerry devices.
This news item is from BlackBerry Master Control Program (MCP)
( http://mcpfx.com/news.php?extend.50 )