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Paul the Programmer

My Keyboard is Smoking

Julie asked me to write a blog. If you noticed, it has been a while since I put pen to…well, fingers to keyboard in preparation to ramble. I have been busy. You may have noticed a couple of small things we have accomplished this year, like the new website, the new press and album products, and the Baby and Child Contest. There have also been a ton of internal, behind-the-scenes projects that I hope will help us help you. I couldn’t accomplish all of this alone - I have lots of help; the guys at ProLab Solutions have been busy doing the Java coding for the just-released Remote Studio Plus. They also write for the current Remote Studio, and we interact constantly to make sure what you order is what we build here at the lab. While building the website, I hired a consultant who we affectionately refer to as Abe. Abe is sharp and has taught me a few things along the way. Sometimes he makes me feel old (I am) because most of the stuff I know is obsolete. Abe is now updating our web hosting.  

The purpose of this isn’t to pat ourselves on the back. Julie asked me to give her a hard date for the release of the new Album Quick Order program. Initially, I thought we would be able to copy the Press Quick Order stuff and with a few changes use most of its code. Of course we don’t want it to work the same way and the products are different so I had to can that idea almost immediately. The good news is I am about half done with the newer, better Album Quick Order. The database structure is complete and the back-end pieces to create the products are also done. So, I should be testing in a couple of weeks and releasing soon after that. I can’t promise anything though because sometimes I have to stop and fix errant orders, but I will do the best I can. And since Abe has taught me lots of new tricks, you can expect it to work better than the Press Quick Order which I will fix as soon as…well, you get the picture. Thanks for your patience and thank you for your business.

 

Paul The Programmer
Published Jun 30 2008, 04:50 PM by Paul C
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ptrunfio said:

Thanks, Paul, for the update.  Julie says Album Quick Order will be Mac compatible.  That's great.  I eagerly await more Mac solutions.  

best, paul

p.s. and I do like the new look website.

June 30, 2008 6:20 PM
 

dixiepixel said:

Wow.  You deserve more than a pat on the back--!!  I can't wait to try out the software on my Macs.  You are a peach, Paul.  Thank you so much for all of your (and Abe's) hard work!!    It's much appreciated here.

June 30, 2008 8:05 PM
 

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July 2, 2008 2:00 PM
 

Amy Dawnelle said:

My web designer and I are trying to figure out what kind of program you have on the millers home page for the slide show. Those images load so quickly and there are huge! Please share this info. I would love to have my home page look like that with no waiting for the page to load. Thanx

August 27, 2008 12:19 AM
 

Bjorn Helgaas said:

Hi Paul, any updates on the Mac version of Remote Studio?  I have to hang onto a Windows box just for that, and I can't wait to get rid of it.

August 27, 2008 1:32 PM

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