EPT3.1 Cancelled!

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We have some good, and some bad news.
It's not something to critical, but it's about this website.

The bad
We have decided to drop EPT3.1, as we realised it became more and more of a layout change then a real difference to the site; bringing new features/stability/speed.
So we are dropping it.

The good
Yes we also got that. EPT 4 is currently beeing build
Might sound weird, maybe not, but we are going to re-write the entire website. Featuring: database support.
The site is growing to large to keep it file based, we are switching to database based. Hopefully beeing faster and more stable, our trafic trackers are very confused to the current way of EPT3.

We have build a good database on paper and are now building it into EPT4. When will it be done? Well, rather you don't know it untill we are almost done (read previous message).

Thank you for reading,

Newanz Staff

What makes an application a good one?

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Something I like to remind us here at Newanz about is: To make a good application it takes time.
You can't expect such a small team to build such an application in such a short amount time as we sometimes set ourselfs to. This is good reason why we never actually give the public our release dates, well planned release dates that is, as we never make them the first time around. Visitors won't go mad about us delaying a release again and again and again...

So what I am trying to say here, NewsOffice 1.2 is not done! Far from it actually, although we are working on the second release candidate, this is more due the fact we agreed to loose somethings for this release. We have ourselfs a nice large list of points we need to build or rewrite and half of it, planned for RC2, is done. It is more of a maintenance release that it will bring new features.

So anything you can give away?
Yes, I really like us to release this RC very soon, but again, it takes time.

Thank you for reading,

Tom de Bruijn
Newanz Staff

So... What new?

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Well not so much news. I'm currently busy with exams for school, trying to learn Windows server 2003 domain networking.

In my spare time I collected all bugs mentioned in NDC and other ones I recieved and found. Quite a lot actually. Makes me think to really start about EPT 4, but first EPT3 will be released. This will mostly be a theme update including some special effects.

Further more the RC2 of NewsOffice is almost done, but this is all fast work, meaning it's quality is not too well, that's why I will have to fix that later on. I can't give a precise date for the RC2, but the first test will begin shortly.

What the rest of the staff is doing, beats me, haven't heard from them since a week ago...

Thank you for reading,

Tom de Bruijn
Newanz Staff