Just a note on the Beta of V10, now that it is wrapping up. I have been developing and testing software for over 20 years. I have also been invloved in Beta testing products for just about as long. The way in which Alpha has conducted the testing phaase has been outstanding. Each issue that I presented to them was fixed in hours after they could duplicate it. I have never been involved in a Beta quite like this.
The commitment, excitment and enthusiasm that Selwyn and the Alpha staff has shown during the testing period, I have never seen before. Generally when a product is in the Beta phase, development has stopped and just bugs are fixed. I have seen new features added almost weekly (sometimes daily) since the Beta began. The product that we started testing months ago, is really quite different (and better) than it would have been if development had stopped before we started testing. Many suggestions that the beta testers made, were implemented now, not in V11.
With each version release of Alpha, I have always felt that a few features were added that were cool, but nothing that changed the game. V10 changes the game.It has truly opened up new doors for us as developers, with an ease that is just remarkable. And I, personally, have only scratched the surface. Some of the features require a different approach, a different view, from the way "we have always done things" in the past. So, for anyone who is an Alpha customer, who does not explore the "net (Inter or Intra) enabled" side of V10, watch the videos, download the trial and open up your mind and some new opportunities. My job as a developer, is to solve problems. It really doesn't matter to me how I do that (the desktop vs web argument really does seems moot to me at this point) and having a now expanded toolbox to work with, it just makes my life a little easier.
Thanks Alpha for getting me jazzed up over coming to work again.
When is the V11 beta scheduled to begin?? :)
The commitment, excitment and enthusiasm that Selwyn and the Alpha staff has shown during the testing period, I have never seen before. Generally when a product is in the Beta phase, development has stopped and just bugs are fixed. I have seen new features added almost weekly (sometimes daily) since the Beta began. The product that we started testing months ago, is really quite different (and better) than it would have been if development had stopped before we started testing. Many suggestions that the beta testers made, were implemented now, not in V11.
With each version release of Alpha, I have always felt that a few features were added that were cool, but nothing that changed the game. V10 changes the game.It has truly opened up new doors for us as developers, with an ease that is just remarkable. And I, personally, have only scratched the surface. Some of the features require a different approach, a different view, from the way "we have always done things" in the past. So, for anyone who is an Alpha customer, who does not explore the "net (Inter or Intra) enabled" side of V10, watch the videos, download the trial and open up your mind and some new opportunities. My job as a developer, is to solve problems. It really doesn't matter to me how I do that (the desktop vs web argument really does seems moot to me at this point) and having a now expanded toolbox to work with, it just makes my life a little easier.
Thanks Alpha for getting me jazzed up over coming to work again.
When is the V11 beta scheduled to begin?? :)
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