Bitworking released Aggie 1.0 RC5 friday....
Pros - SMTP support is reportedly turned on
- site-scraping for regularly formatted web sites
- The pixel theme can add a [ Blog This] link from each entry, facilitating hit and run blogging!
Cons:
- It's Broken out fo the box! We're not talking strange stuff, but basica functionality!
- You cannot add new feeds, it complains about a file missing, which is the local cache for the rss feed. Of course it doesn't exist yet I'm adding it!
- The Pixel theme is horriblyt slow, and this is due to sloppy coding. They have a reference to
http://ntbhi22/ in the stylesheet where they meant http://www.perceive.net/. Aggie screaches to a halt doing a NetBios lookup.
- Expand collapse is broken in IE for the pixel theme. It used to work before whjen it was broken in Mozilla...
I hate to bite the hand that feeds by saying this, but Aggie RC 5 is pre-alpha crap (I used the msi installer for reference). Aggie RC4 was truly an RC level release. So I snipped the one interesting feature from the pixel stylesheet (the blog this link which I am using right now), put it in my old pixel theme in RC 4, and uninstalled RC5 (codename CS101 first program submission). I sure hope they do some damage control quick like.
Update 17 Feb: One of the authors of Aggie responded inmy comments, and acknowledget hat the pixel skin is in need of work, and it will be address. As for the add problem I haven't been able to systematically reproduce it, but it involved deleting feeds, then their cache file, then re-adding the file, so it's not a normal case. But I found that after my pixel aggrivations so my tolerance for strange behavior had dropped to sero at that point Don't get me wrong though: I like aggie, I've used aggie for months now, and will continue to use aggie, just not the RC5 version. Wait for RC6 or an update to RC5 before installing a newer verison of aggie. |
