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Ryan Lowe on release engineering:

It doesn't matter how amazing your software is. If your user can't easily and properly install your product all he has is a few useless (and expensive) polycarbonate discs. You've wasted his time and money and ruined your reputation all in one clean shot.

This is so true, and worse so easily forgotten.

I can't think of how many times I wrote a cool piece of code and then released it without proper testing, ech what a mess.

house of warwick: "http://houseofwarwick.com/2004/09/20.html#a897">Radio 8.1 Beta"

The beta is out and i'm running it. The new changes are great, much better HTML generation, an improved aggregator and some improvements to the desktop website. The beta release also comes with a slick new installer, so if the beta breaks anything it's very easy to uninstall.

But the best is yet to come, here's a quote from Steve Kirks:

You've asked for comment moderation and faster page/comment loading. If all goes well, you'll get it much sooner than I had ever dreamed.

Excellent!

Feed Your Reader 0.6 is out and it goes a long way to solving some of the problems I have with Firefox's Live Bookmarks.

So far the extension overloads the RSS button so that when you "Subscribe to feed xyz" it sends the request to your main aggregator instead of setting up a Live Bookmark. If you want a Live Bookmark all you have to do is hold down the shift key.

Currently the extension only supports the feed:// protocol which my Aggregator (Radio) does not support. But Michael is planning to add support for web based aggregators soon (hopefully this weekend).

So far my only issue with FYR is that you must hold down shift or ctrl for Live Bookmarks. This will not be obvious to the average user. I think the RSS buttton should have three options:

1. Subscribe to "xyz" in my aggregator.
2. Add Live Bookmark for "xyz".
3. What is RSS?

The first two are self-explanitory, the third should bring up an about RSS page that describes RSS, aggregators and Live Bookmarks. With these changes the extension would be much more of a mainsteam tool, as opposed to a "hardcore RSS/news junkies" tool.

I really hope the Firefox developpers are watching this, Michael is doing some amazing work...