Vault 4.1/Fortress 1.1 Beta 1 Available

November 27, 2007 — Ian Olsen

Last night we released a beta version of Vault 4.1 and Fortress 1.1. The big changes include:

  • Visual Studio 2008 support
  • Tags in Fortress

A more exhaustive list of changes is here.

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Being a Minion

October 25, 2007 — Ian Olsen

Several of the Evil Mastermind ads have featured SourceGear employees as minions. I make an appearance as Minion 72 in Episode 8, which appears in November issues of Dr. Dobb’s and MSDN.

The people who created this comic claim it’s coincidence that Detroit is one of the banishment buttons, despite the fact that I spent 15 years there before moving to Champaign. I’m skeptical. I just think none of them want to admit responsibility. My wife nearly started a brawl when she overheard someone badmouthing Detroit after the Michigan-Illinois game Saturday. If she finds out whose idea it was, there could definitely be trouble. She looks sweet, but don’t be fooled.

Superman Minion
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The Power of the Marginal

June 28, 2006 — Ian Olsen

“Work like a dog being taken for a walk, instead of an ox being yoked to the plow.” —Paul Graham, in his latest, The Power of the Marginal

I found this essay inspirational. It’s no great leap to consider SourceGear, a small software company out on the prairie, fitting Graham’s definition of marginal.

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