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Qik.com just hasn’t been working out for me the last few weeks when I’ve wanted to record the WiX Working Group Wrap-up. So after multiple attempts with only 2 seconds to show for it each time I decided to try something different, Jing. I first tried using the built in speakers on my laptop but that (not surprisingly) sounded horrible. Then I tracked down a headset+mic and that seemed to work much better. Not super high quality but certainly good enough… and better than the disjoint video to speech from Qik.

Anyway, without further ado here is the WiX Working Group Wrap-up for July 24th, 2008.

 

 

Original post by Rob Mensching

Blog posting has been oft delayed the last month since I have been been busy both at work and at home. At work, I was finishing up another Sprint which always seems to take a bit more focus to tie up the loose ends. At night, I’m fixing bugs in the WiX toolset in an effort to finish. On top of all of that, Jenny and I are preparing our house for sale. We have a couple contractors doing all kinds of jobs inside the house and we are doing others. For example, after a couple long weekends of stripping wallpaper from the kitchen and bedroom. As a result I have banned wallpaper in the next house.

I’m tired (quite tired) but the end is in sight. Another couple weeks and the house should be on the market. Another few months and the WiX toolset bug count should be much lower. Of course, the Sprints just keep going…

 

Original post by Rob Mensching

In my first qik, I mentioned that one of the things I was most excited about doing with Qik was a nightly “wrap-up” of the meetings on Thursday where the majority of work gets done on the WiX toolset. I tried my first “WiX Working Group Wrap-up on July 3rd” but the 19 minute video ended up only about 7 seconds long. I guessed the other 18+ minutes were sacrificed to the “alpha software demons” so I dropped them an email.

I got a response on Monday (which is pretty good considering Friday was a holiday) saying that the current Windows Mobile version of the Qik software does not retry if it loses its connection for any reason. There is a fix in testing. After having a few videos get chopped short, I am definitely looking forward for this update (with high hopes it addresses the problem).

With or without the update, I’ll try another wrap-up on Qik this Thursday. Hopefully, it will all eventually take.

 

Original post by Rob Mensching