Envied Design.net

That’s right, today marks the fifth anniversary of Envied Design.net’s inception.  It’s been an extremely interesting five years.  I’d like to thank all of ED’s customers for making this five years excellent, and I look forward to another five.

So, it’s almost that time of year again.  No matter what religious holidays you celebrate(if any), I’m sure you’ll all appreciate what we here at ED.net are going to do for you guys this year.

We know everyone’s having a tough time financially with the markets in the funk that they’re in right now.  It’s hard to get those little extras now.  So, we’re going to help your bottom line.  After Halloween, we’re going to start our largest holiday promotion yet.  All products will be 30% off through February 14th, 2009.

Also, sometime during this period we should release an update(free for current customers, excluding new product introductions).  Not long to wait now.  Have a happy Halloween, everyone!

By the way, I’m Napoleon Dynamite this year.  ;)

A customer messaged me today saying that they weren’t going to buy GraffitiSuite right now for two reasons:

1. My health.  Let me say that I’m basically fine.  I feel nauseas a lot, and sometimes my brain just doesn’t function correctly but, other than that, I’m fine.  Just a little sugar problem.
2. The impending update.  The next update will be free to current GraffitiSuite customers, with the exception of any new classes.  For new classes, those customers will only have to buy the controls they don’t already own and we’ll upgrade your GraffitiSuite registration code.  So instead of paying another $170.00, you’ll just be paying the cost of the new controls.  For instance, if I add one new control and price it at $19.95 then current GraffitiSuite customers will only have to pay $19.95 and we’ll upgrade their registration code.  After you’ve made your purchase, you should email your current registration information to agcyphers@envieddesign.net and request the code upgrade(at least until we get our automated system working properly).

So there’s no need to worry.  Even if I did fall off the face of the Earth tomorrow, I have someone waiting in the wings to run the entire business, and I have the utmost faith in them.

That said, I’d like to hear what kind of classes you guys would like to see added to GraffitiSuite.  We’ve got a lot in it already, but there’s always room for more.

I’ve run across several terrible bugs in RB while working on the next release.  The only workaround appears to be switching back to R3.1.  While I hate to do that, I don’t have much of a choice.  The switch back to R3.1 will only be for my development, and I will still test in R4 before release.

One of the bugs is really driving me crazy.  On Win32, if you encrypt a project item then either try to make it external or save the project…instant death.  Memory error.  As you know, if my classes aren’t encrypted they don’t get released.  So R3.1 will be for dev, R4 will be for testing.

Myself and a few others are anticipating a R4.1, as there appear to be some significant issues in R4 for Mac as well.  I really hope it addresses these issues.

First of all, I’d like to think all of the well-wishers I’ve heard from recently.  Comments, emails, and IMs have come in from many good people, some of which I had figured would never read this website.

On to other things…

Students and educators, be sure to check out our new Educational Sales program via the link on the left side of the page.

I’ve gotten reports that GraffitiSuite has problems in 2008R4.  Although I’m unsure why, the problem happened on Leopard, and was solved by redownloading the currently available version.

Read on for GraffitiSuite and company stuff…

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So, I recently found out that I’ll soon be diabetic if I don’t change my sinful ways.

My blood test results came back with an insulin count double that of a normal person, good cholesterol was half the norm, and bad cholesterol was double the norm.

As such, my doctor put me on this wretched medication which basically makes me wish he had given me some sort of anesthetic as well.

I’m still working on things for GraffitiSuite, have no fear, but the updates here may slow even further as I attempt to become more healthy.

So, I’ve been playing with Google’s new browser, Chrome.  I have to say that this concept is killer.  Aside from a few bugs(can’t maximize on a secondary monitor with varying resolutions), I love it.

See, I use a lot of web apps.  GMail, Google Docs, MySpace, FaceBook, my blog dashboards, etc.  I’ve come to the point that I don’t feel these are web applications anymore.  I feel more like they’re local, as I use them so much.  As such, I’m glad to see a browser come along that takes the same stance, and takes it seriously.

I really don’t feel like Chrome is a browser.  It’s more like a computing gateway, or web container.  I’m beginning to think of Chrome more as a necessity for my web applications.  I like having certain sites as shortcuts on my desktop that load into an exclusive window with all links opening up in a new tabbed window.  It’s just so much more comfortable this way.

I’d like to hear everyone’s thoughts on Chrome.  I know what I’m sticking with for a while, at least.

So I’ve been steadily working on the next GraffitiSuite update, and I have to say that it’s looking really good.  We’ve got a lot of bug fixes in, and three new classes(as long as they make it through testing, which is going on now).  Yes, three!  Not to mention the new registration scheme.

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So things have been a bit crazy lately.  Basically all of my jobs have come together in one big “WTF IS GOING ON HERE” style situation.  I’ve been readying an update to GraffitiSuite(which is looking really good) based on customer feedback, writing a tiny redemption management system, and readying a system audit software for primetime.

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This is so funny, I think I just peed a little.  I don’t even have a really witty one-liner for thise.  I mean, I thought about something like “Some things you just can’t accurately reproduce.”  If I used that one, I’d have to explain that I understand it was a comedic picture, etc.  I really didn’t want to spend all of that time typing out such an explanation, so I instead wasted typing this one.