Bugdar 1.1.4 Released

While others may be taking the day off for Thanksgiving, I’m seizing the opportunity to get 1.1.4 out the door. I’m tremendously thankful for all the people who have sent bugs and feedback to me because it’s really helping Bugdar’s evolution and future development.

For those of you who use the SVN sources, I’d like to point out that the 1.1.x line has now been branched (branches/1.1.x) as the 1.2.0 release is now going to be developed on the trunk.

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the U.S.!

New Product Ahead!

If I’ve been quiet on the Bugdar front, it’s because Kalens has been under heavy development the last couple of weeks and we’re approaching Beta 1 after weeks of alphas.

Kalens comes from the Latin word for “calendar” which should make the function of this new application easy to discern ;). Kalens, however, is unique because besides having an amazing interface (which I’m still polishing up), it is very AJAX-y through a nifty JavaScript library called jQuery which provides very easy cross-broswer working animations and such.

So I figure the best way to show you parts of the interface is through a a movie (~2.7 MB).

Of course, this is released under the GNU GPL and the source code tree can be found here. Please feel free to check the code out, but at the moment it does not have any installer (though you can find the schema files in the docs/ folder).

Enjoy! Beta 1 should be released for public consumption within a week or two.

Updates Ho!

Hot on the heels of 1.1.0 is going to be 1.1.1. There have been a few bugs reported that need to be addressed sooner rather than later, so after I get a few more reports (I’m waiting on a couple) I’ll hopefully release 1.1.1 sometime later this week or early next week. So keep your eyes on the website or on the version checking feature in the Admin CP.

It’s Out!

Exactly a month late (sorry!), Bugdar 1.1.0 out the door. With a completely redesigned website and a new home, this release of Bugdar is very special. It means that the old Iris Studios website can now be shut down because all the products have been transferred over to Blue Static.

Version 1.1 is definitely a giant leap forward in Bugdar’s evolution because its code is significantly cleaner and more secure than in 1.0. I’m already thinking about what will come in 1.2 and beyond and the future looks exciting.

But, for the moment, I’m going to take a break to work on school and college applications. Enjoy the release and please report any bugs in the tracker!

No Time to Waste!

If my quick review of NewsFire in my list of “Amazing Mac Software” didn’t convince you to buy NewsFire, this definitely should:

For the next two days, if you buy NewsFire, you also get Inquisitor for free. For those of you who don’t know, Inquisitor is a very cool plugin for Safari that takes over the Google search field. When you start typing, it instantly brings up the results (it can also be programmed so that shortcuts search different sites). This is very handy if you already know what you’re looking for and just can’t remember the URL.

So, if you haven’t already, go pick up NewsFire and get Inquisitor for free. Both of them are great applications!

Sidenote: today Bugdar 1.1 sound a round of bug fixes and testing. Beta 2 is due out soon–probably Monday or Tuesday. More about that later.