Jonbouy
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Out of interest...
I was just looking at the Propellerheads General forum, a weekend after a 'full' Version release, and aside from an initial flurry of Mac users who don't seem to be able to read instructions, or realise they have to have cash in their accounts for PayPal to work, there is a distinct lack of 'this is broken' or 'try re-installing your OS and completely upgrading your hardware' or 'it must be your machine, it's working here' type posts. There's been one thread about a Digi003 interface problems that's managed to stay current all weekend such is the lack of general problems people are having with it. So all the excuses I hear upstairs that go 'I'm a programmer and I know software, it's bound to be buggy at the first release, give Cake time there's nothing wrong here' appear again to be a complete crock. Sure I'm expecting some issues to show up over time, but it's really refreshing and nice to see the majority (including myself) having a good experience with a new release. I wonder if that's because they have a public beta policy, BEFORE release.
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 6:22 AM
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It seems to work for them...public beta is a good idea whose time has come maybe?
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 6:46 AM
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public beta is a good idea whose time has come maybe? Certainly has, and it does work. Beta testers know it's not finished and expect problems. Also, by putting in bug reports you get your customer base involved, a psychological 'buy in' if you like. Also, beta testers are most likely to be from the most loyal customer base, and will market the product on relase by commenting amongst friends or forums as to the quality of the product. It takes guts to do it, but it woks if the manufacturer has confidence in the quality of the product. Many companies are doing this. Native Instruments publicly beta tested the latest Battery and Reaktor versions. Microsoft did it for Windows 7, and are doing public pre-beta tests for Windows 8 amongst their developer community.
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 11:05 AM
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All the software I've ever written over the last 40 years is Beta...
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bapu
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 11:25 AM
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I have one system that I produced that has been 100% bug free for over three years now. The company that bought it was acquired by a larger corporation and had to shelve my product to transition to the corporate systems.
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 11:31 AM
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Maybe they already had another "Hello World! My name is Bapu!" application?
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bapu
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 11:33 AM
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craigb Maybe they already had another "Hello World! My name is Bapu!" application? Yeah, and theirs worked. Mine was still in dev.
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Jonbouy
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 11:39 AM
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10 Input $Post 20 Print $Post 30 %PostCount = (%PostCount +1) 40 Goto 10 Edit: Debugging
post edited by Jonbouy - October 04, 11 11:45 AM
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 11:49 AM
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Jonbouy 10 Input $Post 20 Print $Post 30 %PostCount = (%PostCount +1) 40 Goto 10 Edit: Debugging Bug: %PostCount not initilaized
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Jonbouy
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 11:58 AM
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Bug: %PostCount not initilaized Don't worry Willy will fix that for you...
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 12:02 AM
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Jonbouy Bug: %PostCount not initilaized Don't worry Willy will fix that for you... He has. Twice. It did no good.
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Out of interest...
October 04, 11 5:06 PM
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Jonbouy
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Re:Out of interest...
October 04, 11 5:20 PM
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See as a grace period updater I was totally unaware of any of that. My promised update license appeared in my account 5 hours before the release deadline, the download itself 3 hours after that, all without any intervention from me. My download itself took 5 hours with my full bandwidth being maxed out the entire time so no server problems were apparent to me at any point. But what an open apology! It was us, not your browser, you not checking your spam folder or any other excuse that absolves us. Even if they take a week to sort this out it will still be better than the 3 weeks it took me to get my 8.5 update and on no occasion was it put to me it was because Cakewalk were having problems. That only occured several months later when they admitted their system that was previously working well according to them had recieved a major shakedown.
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