Another week, another data loss. New host (same resellers, they’ve been handling the situation well and it’s not their fault), though.
Again, no program code loss, but parts of defaultprogramseditor.com must again be written. This has given me more time to squeeze a couple extra features into 2.0 that otherwise would have had to wait until 2.1, such as a “jump to verb” link, as in 1.3.
My web host was offline for the past few days after an unfortunate data loss, and I’m slowly restoring things from backup. Most of my utilities and other projects should be back up in a couple days, but the latest work on defaultprogramseditor.com is gone forever and I’ll have to just sit down and rewrite it. Finishing that site with screenshots and user documentation are pretty much all that’s left to do before the 2.0 release. No program code was lost at all, and the beta has been pretty successful and will probably be one of the last builds.
Alight, I haven’t posted in awhile and it’s time for an update about what’s going on. School’s out for the summer, so I’ll have time now to finish up Default Programs Editor v2 in the next couple weeks. In truth, it’s been pretty much done since the middle of April but it’s missing a couple features I want in before I lay this project to rest and move on to other things. Of course I’ll still welcome user feedback, and I expect there will probably be a spike in interest for the new version. Those new user experience reports may require some updates like I put out for v1.0. I’ve also been planning some additional internal refactoring of the library on which the program is based, as well as substantial documentation, so that I can finally publicly release the source and not be horribly embarrassed about it.
Editing an Autoplay Handler:
The high points of v2.0 include
While I get work on that done, I’m also in the prep stages for possibly my next summer project, which will kick off with a short series of posts on the use of COM interop in C# to create an Aero compatible DeskBand UI. Stay tuned, it’s going to be a fun summer!