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Back on the bleeding edge...

Thursday, 14. September 2006, 09:33:27

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Part of the fun of being inside a company like Opera is seeing the cool stuff first. The compensation for knowing about something but not being allowed to say it (being listed on the stock market means there are lots of things that can't be mentioned until they have been told) is being allowed to play with stuff first.

I got a new version of Opera yesterday - the latest and greatest hot-off-the-build-machine internal "we haven't checked whether this works yet but we know it is different to the last build" test version.

Which is always a scary thing to do. Backup everything everywhere (which is something that should be doneregularly anyway, of course), install new stuff and make some escape branches just in case, and then fire it up.

So far, so good...

Viajar...Into Africa (au moins, le Maghreb...)

Comments

Charles McCathieNevile 14. September 2006, 10:13

So I was downloading my email as I wrote this. And lo, I discover my build is out of date now - there is an even newer and even more bleeding edge version. Oh well. I might wait a couple of days anyway...

Ramūnas 14. September 2006, 10:42

P:
But you'll still tell us when its good time to buy some Opera stock, right? :wink:

Daniel Goldman 14. September 2006, 14:23

Hmm...

Andrew Gregory 14. September 2006, 15:28

Scary? Not with a virtual machine! I'm got a VM dedicated to testing software, particularly my own :smile: It's very good for Opera betas too...

FataL 14. September 2006, 15:38

Exciting!

Backup everything everywhere...

Is Opera can be this dangerous? :D I usually do only backup of Opera folder. :smile:

Charles McCathieNevile 14. September 2006, 15:50

@fatal, what I actually back up is my mail and preferences. In principle, yes, it could be that dangerous, but I trust the developers to tell me if they did anything so unusual (normally it is quite hard for the browser to mess with the file system unless you tell it too, but it certainly has the capacity in theory).

@Andrew the issue for me is that I don't want to change mail client handling often, so I am not prepared to move to something that I think might damage my email.

@Ramunas, whenever you think is a good time P: I could tell you, but I would have to cook you first.

Claudio Santambrogio 14. September 2006, 18:44

...good luck (with your mail) :smile:

FataL 14. September 2006, 19:24

I got the hint! You finally did something bad with M2? Wow! :smile:
Can't wait anymore!

Charles McCathieNevile 14. September 2006, 23:06

/me doesn't trust his mail to anyone. And Lady Luck, incredibly attractive as she is, has a funny way of leaving everyone in the lurch from time to time...

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