Finally got a Belgian waffle iron!
Anyone who wants waffles, stop by my house Tuesday morning between 8:00am and 8:30am on your way to work. I’ll have plenty of syrup. If you want anything else on/with your waffles feel free to bring it, and feel free to share 🙂
On most Fridays you can find several Webmailers, including myself, at happy hour at Sigma Grill here in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center. Happy hour is from 5PM till whenever, every Friday.
If you’re in the Blacksburg area, come hang out with us tomorrow! Normally we get there by 6PM.
I’ve started driving by the construction site for the new Webmail.us office building a couple of times per week. It has been neat to watch the progress. They have the building’s frame up, floors poured, roof up, balcony built and they are starting to put up the outside wall. As of right now we are told that our move-in date will be sometime in the second half of July.
This will be our fifth major office move. We’ve grown up a lot since 1999:
Webmail Office v1.0
Dec 1999 – Jul 2000
living room of townhouse in Rutherford Town Homes, Blacksburg VA;
plus Kevin’s apartment
Webmail Office v2.0
Jul 2000 – Jul 2002
rented two adjacent apartments in FoxRidge, Blacksburg VA;
one to live out of, one to work out of
Webmail Office v3.0
Jul 2002 – Aug 2004
moved to basement floor of townhouse in Oakton, VA;
plus small office in Corporate Research Center in Blacksburg VA
Webmail Office v4.0
Aug 2004 – Feb 2005
moved primary office to Corporate Research Center;
2000 Kraft Drive Suite 1300, Blacksburg VA
Webmail Office v4.1
Feb 2005
moved into larger office across the hall in 2000 Kraft Dr;
Suite 1400
Webmail Office v4.2
Apr 2006
expanded back into the original office space we had in 2000 Kraft Dr, keeping both suites 1300 & 1400
Webmail Office v4.3
Apr 2006
added sales office in Roanoke, VA
Webmail Office v4.4
Dec 2006
expanded night-time customer care into another section of 2000 Kraft Dr
Webmail Office v4.5
Mar 2007
added "stealth" development office across the street in another VTCRC building
Webmail Office v4.6
May 2007
added another random office in 2000 Kraft Dr.
Webmail Office v5.0
~Summer 2007
Watch Webmail Office v5.0 being built. I will be uploading photos to Flickr tagged with "webmail-office" twice per week until the day we move in, along with occasional updated posts on this blog, and some talk about the cool toys we’re putting into the new office.
Thanks everyone who called and emailed today to check in on us. I appreciate your concern… All Webmail employees are fine. Early in the day Marisa checked in with all of our part-timers, most of whom are Virginia Tech students, and everyone is accounted for.
Being located in Blacksburg and with our offices actually on VT-owned land, this event obviously hits close to home. Many of us at Webmail are VT grads and we all frequent the campus for various activities – and we all call this place home. Most of us already know somebody who has been directly hit by today’s events.
It is hard to find words for today.
Dovecot is an open-source IMAP server that quite frankly kicks ass. I put it’s quality right up there with Postfix, the undisputed champion of SMTP servers. Last year when upgrading from Courier-IMAP, we chose to go with Dovecot instead Cyrus (another very good open-source IMAP program) because of the direction that the project was heading. Dovecot was being actively developed by a very smart individual named Timo Sirainen, with a goal of making it rock solid and secure. And like most of the software that we use, we knew we’d be adding custom patches to it – so we also liked Dovecot because the C code is clean and easy to follow.
Over the past year Timo has worked extremely hard to find and fix all cases that can cause crashes, index corruption, security holes and other nastiness; as well as to make it as fast as possible without huge code rewrites. Even when begged to do so by folks on the mailing list, Timo refused to release version 1.0 until he was satisfied that there were zero bugs. Since August 2005, the pre-1.0 software has gone through 5 alpha releases, 9 beta releases, and 32 release candidates. In recent weeks the bug-list has been empty, and only minor issues have been reported and immediately fixed.
And so the day has come…
On Fri, April 13, 2007 8:04 am, Timo Sirainen said:
> http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.0.tar.gz
> http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig
>
> It took almost 5 years, but it's finally ready. I'm not expecting to
> release v1.0.1 anytime soon, unless someone's been sitting on a major
> bug just waiting for v1.0 to be released. :)
>
> People wanting new features should start testing the upcoming v1.1.
> http://dovecot.org/nightly/ contains now snapshots from CVS HEAD. It
> already has tons of new features. I've been using it myself for half a
> year, so it should be mostly stable too. I'll write a separate mail
> about this later.
>
Congrats Timo!
Velvet uploaded some photos from the rest of the night, including some of the craziness downtown… webmail-hackathon4.
If this looks like fun and you want to take part in Hackathon 5, email me. We’re hiring.
Hackathon has moved upstairs to the big conference room. Here are the projects being demoed right now:
Webmail
– Right click
– Task list improvements
– Search improvements (frontend)
– Search improvements (backend, speed)
– Drag and drop improvements
– Double byte language support
– Preview pane enhancements
Control Panel
– Bcc archiving for resellers
– Ability to undelete mailboxes
– Mail access controls (pop/imap/ssl)
– Ability to disable "Login As User"
Outreach
– First demo of the new email marketing system
Billing
– Forecasting revenue report (internal project)