Oddblogwherein Iain Lamb and Ethan Diamond prattle on incessantly about all things Oddpost(Untitled)- December 31, 2003 Publishing a development weblog can be a two-edged sword. On the one hand think of, then insert something good about it here, but on the other it can set up some fairly unreasonable expectations. For example, when eight weeks recently passed between posts, we received a phone call that went something like: "Hello, Oddpost. Um, yes, just checking that you guys are still in business. Why yes we are. Are you having trouble with your account No, just noticed that the blog hadn't been updated in a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/12/31.html#a90 (Untitled)- December 13, 2003 The UIDValidity bug is fixed. Backspace in calendar events is working again. You can enter carriage returns in the notes section of contacts and the description field of events. Closing the main application window doesn&146;t leave composition windows open that you cannot send. The wizard and external mail dialogs are much improved all around. IE no longer rapidly leaks memory when sending message after message after message. Or at least leaks much less. And never, ever again will the run...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/12/12.html#a84 (Untitled)- December 6, 2003 Oddpost is an amazing place to work. The benefits are great and our employees are well-paid. The hours are reasonable and the vacation plan quite generous. So it's really no surprise that we receive hundreds of resumes per hour, most of which we shred on the way to the company cafeteria where breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, second lunch, dinner and late-night snack are all prepared free-of-charge by a former chef of the French Laundry and which Zagat called "as good a place as any to...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/12/05.html#a83 (Untitled)- December 5, 2003 To the ever-growing stable of highly proprietary Oddpost intellectual property (which currently includes, inter alia, a hard-won set of bookmarks into the deepest bowels of MSDN), we now add knowledge of how to cancel the browser's unbelievably tenacious default Ctrl-F Find behavior. What does this mean for YOU Well just you go ahead and forward an email by typing Ctrl-F. Used to be that unless you possessed as light a touch as David Carradine's rice paper footsteps, the message would forward...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/12/05.html#a81 (Untitled)- December 5, 2003 engineer 1, wiping tear from eye ...oh ha ha...gosh yes...and, and remember when pasting text into the body of a message sometimes moved the insertion point to the end of the message! Man, we were so crazy back then...engineer 2, breathlessly Or wait, what about the time when if you hit the Backspace key in the main window the whole app would reload! snort Hold up, hold up: 8 words, 12 syllables: that bug where the toolbar's icons showed up doubled on monitors with Properties-Settings-Advanced..http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/12/05.html#a80 (Untitled)- December 5, 2003 "Checking other mail." Three powerful words, shrouded in mystery. But not the good kind of mystery. No, the kind of mystery that makes you say "What the hummuna hummuna is taking so long Oddpost suxxors." Well actually, Oddpost frickin' roxxors, which we now demonstrate quite clearly by displaying progress information as we fetch your external mail. But did we stop there No! We also now load your Inbox before we go out and fetch your external mail, which means that when some other mail server...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/12/05.html#a79 (Untitled)- December 5, 2003 As someone who is already an Oddpost subscriber, you will probably not care that we have added a new user wizard to simplify the process of hooking Oddpost up to your existing email account(s). However, you really should care, because this, plus getting all nuded up, rolling around in a trough of hot mango chutney and posting the pictures to the Photographic Odyssey will make Oddpost more, how you say...sticky which means more subscribers, which means happy long life for Oddpost.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/12/05.html#a78 (Untitled)- December 5, 2003 We prefer not to draw too much attention to the fact that you can now use Oddpost to check your Yahoo! Mail (see File-External Mail Accounts or File-Account Setup Wizard). It's still in beta. Shhh.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/12/05.html#a77 (Untitled)- December 5, 2003 Oddpost's performance degraded steadily over the month of November. This was primarily due to a memory leak on our servers, but was also somewhat related to strong subscriber growth. The memory leak has since been located and fixed (it was, by the way, unrelated to the leak mentioned back in September), and we're roughly seven weeks away from releasing a much faster and significantly more scaleable backend system. We thank you for your patience and apologize for the unusually stern tone of this.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/12/05.html#a76 |