Manila Envelope 1.0.1 has been released. Bugfixes, mostly, and a few new features, including importing text files and automatic translation of special characters (e.g. å, é, î, ò, ü, ç, ñ, etc.) to their HTML entity equivalents. Check out the full release notes for more details.
Day: January 21, 2002
Now playing
Currently playing song: “Pride (In The Name Of Love)” by U2 on The Unforgettable Fire.
Happy MLK Day. Enjoy the progress.
Editorial in today’s Washington Post: “Gaps measured by race loom large in school performance, health status, incarceration rates and, of course, the death penalty. Skin color, it is widely feared in 2002, increases the likelihood of being stopped, searched and arrested.” Plus ça change…
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Proud Sloanie
Interesting article in the New York Times on Amazon today, regarding the importance of their operations management capability in making profit. I’d like to point out for the record that Jeff Wilke isn’t just an MIT alum, he’s an MIT Sloan alum. You don’t read stories like that about Harvard Business School grads, do you? 🙂
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Getting serious
In doing this project, I’m continually reminded of things that I knew once and have subsequently lost. For instance, making sure that I follow a consistent process for building and publishing. I just realized that the build I made yesterday still showed 1.0A1 as the version number in the About box. As a result, I started a checklist for my build and deployment process. Our old configuration manager at AMS would be so proud…