no problems on mt side. offcourse if you are using the new beta then no surprise if you face problems
You are forced to use the version that JL comes out with, and there are ABSOLUTELY NO options for you. That's my point.
TBS is filled with bugs now and JL is constantly upgrading it with new functions without cleaning up those (especially the most crucial of those) bugs.
P.S.: See, just now I was using TBS to work upon one of my own articles (trying to make it slightly different from that earlier one), and that program bombed. Same thing happened yesterday too. So I consulted one expert programmer last night. We together checked JL's article here >>>
Code:
http://www.jonathanleger.com/but-its-got-to-be-perfect/
We were shocked (I was shocked earlier too when I had first read it
, but this was a "shock" another time around because that articles will give renewed shocks every time), where he states that he works only 20 hours a week!!! My God, he also gives reasons for the way he works (and those are the exact reasons why the TBS is failing and probably dying now). He fails to understand the importance of Customer Satisfaction! In that article, he fails to mention that he isn't even giving an option to his customers to work with any earlier version which worked! Try and put a comment about any "negative" relevant
fact (about his actual program and your negative experience with it), and your comment would most certainly get deleted quickly!
I am not against the fact that he gives more features, more options, but this can be done in a parallel way too. That is, without hurting the main program which is being used by his numerous customers worldwide. The earlier versions worked without flaws, but since last few weeks, TBS has suffered and because of that the customer have suffered too. Only if JL had given an option to revert back to a version that the customers had no complaints, then all his efforts of putting in new features would have been really helpful to TBS and his/its customers. But JL insists on his own views and has tried to "convince" the world about how his way is "special" through the above link. O.K. JL, you may be right in your own way, but why aren't you focusing on the fact that your method has been and is putting your customers in plenty of troubles lately. Give them the option to use a previous version, that all we need.
I will not say here which software is good or bad, but I am sad that his tactics have put my friend's money and my work in great difficulties (due to a now-flawed TBS). Definitely, TBS is dying and while it is dying, JL is beautifying it more!
GUI concepts are lot bigger things to consider in these days. I know about it because I have the experience of working in the field before even Windows was born. I have worked throughout since those times and had been a programmer/analyst/consultant in the field of client-server architecture where GUI is definitely one of the major aspects. Another major aspect is the removal of existing bugs... there are more things to look for and through this process only the Customer Satisfaction is achieved.
This is exactly where he fails. He doesn't understand that bugs can seriously make things difficult, and will be lot more difficult to solve if not corrected immediately (when they are found out), and for those reasons, the versions need to be sent through lots of tests -- not make it the only version for everyone to use without any other choices. This is a difficult concept to digest, but working 20 hours a week (not just on TBS but on lots of other things too), and giving plenty of reason for that isn't going to make his program any healthier. This also proves that he won't be able to assure his customers that he will try and remove all those bugs.
Go to his forums and read all those complaints yourselves. Mind you, he has also deleted a lot of genuine complaints and I have the proof of it. So why does he do that? I am ready to post those proofs too, or give them to proper authorities.
P.S.: The major success of TBS lies in the fact that all his customers have helped created all those great synonyms (which is also the soul of TBS, IMHO), and now he isn't giving justice to all their major complaints. And so, when TBS "dies", that great work done in this context by his customers cannot be recreated or salvaged.
