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HeatWave v1.0.2 and HeatWave Build Tools Released

Friday, October 13, 2023 by Bob Arnson

As we approach the second Friday the 13th of the year, in this chilly month of October with Halloween just a couple weeks away, we figure it's time to ship some spooky software.

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WiX Online Meeting 268 Highlights

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 by Bob Arnson

In a throwback to the mid-2000s, I spent a late Thursday night/Friday early morning collaborating with Rob on some gory WiX internals. Unlike the mid-2000s, it was virtual, I was 2000 miles away, I was responsible for my own refreshments, and it was recorded.

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WiX Online Meeting 267 Highlights

Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by Bob Arnson

Today we did something we haven't done in a while: We had a short meeting. There were only a few issues to triage and none of them were controversial -- which, it turns out, is the most common reason we turn a small number of issues into a long meeting.

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WiX v4.0.2 Released

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 by Bob Arnson

WiX v4.0.2 is now available. WiX v4.0.2 contains fixes for a handful of bugs serious enough to warrant another point release of WiX v4. Half of those bugs came about from my work with a FireGiant customer moving to WiX v4, including work to take advantage of the new WiX v4 build pipeline to replace extensions and utilities that built on top of WiX v3. We're grateful for their help uncovering these bugs. Remember that FireGiant customers get the benefit of guaranteed bug fixes for WiX and, for some, the priceless opportunity to work directly with me.

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WiX Online Meeting 266 Highlights

Tuesday, September 5, 2023 by Bob Arnson

Rob suggested I would control how long today's meeting lasted because many of the issues were mine and some that weren't had questions from me anyway. I countered that idea by suggesting that almost all meetings could go very quickly if everyone just agreed with me. You might notice that we held today's meeting anyway.

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WiX Online Meeting 265 Highlights

Tuesday, August 22, 2023 by Bob Arnson

Our triage today was fairly noncontroversial and went quickly...mostly because we postponed the issue that we didn't finish last meeting. Don't worry; its time is coming.

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