Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog

Thank you to those who’ve submitted bug reports. There are six completely different bugs that have been reported so far. I’m working on them and will hopefully have fixes for them all in the next few releases.

The beta releases will come out more often than the alpha’s did. I hope to get an update every 1 or 2 weeks until the beta is complete. I’ll announce the updates on this blog.

If you are running Behold and you see on the menu line “New Version Available”, please click on it and update. You’ll find the update quite quick and painless. That way you won’t find any bugs that have already been fixed.

Not even out of the starting gates, and the Behold Beta already has a comprehensive review done by Tamura Jones. You can find the review at: http://www.tamurajones.net/Behold0.99.2BetaGEDCOM.xhtml but note that Internet Explorer will not open .xhtml files, so you’ll need to view it with Firefox or another browser.

Tamura is one of the toughest graders of genealogy software you’ll find, with some reviews literally tearing programs apart and stomping on the pieces. I’m quite pleased with the review done of Behold. It’s an honest evaluation of a program whose beta is “definitely a serious improvement” but is still “far from finished”.

I’ve sent Tamura my comments and look forward to getting a response. I always manage to get excellent insights from our “discussions”. The whole virtualizing of the Everything Report was brought into being by some of Tamura’s ideas several years ago, and it is my intention to meet some of the challenges that Tamura has set upon the genealogy software industry. … One step at a time.

The first 9 people to download trial keys all found that their Trial Key was already expired. Here I sit redfaced wondering how I let that happen.

Well, I had changed the expiry from 90 days after the program was built to the new trial rule of 45 days after the key is sent for. I changed that number everywhere I could find. In the program, and in all the website procedures.

Then I uploaded it to the website. My upload compares differences in file size to see what files changed. In the one critical program, the only change was “90″ to “45″ and both of those are 2 characters and that did not change the file size. My comparison program did not report a difference and the file was not updated. Oooops.

All is fixed now. I’ve sent e-mails to those involved asking them sheepishly to try one more time.

Time to take a big deep inhale … and breathe.