Newsletter for June 15th, 2007 - Codename "Heat Wave"

1. DonationCoder.com News
Do you wake up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat fearing that you missed some important news on our website?  We didn't think so.  But you might still be interested in catching up on some official news from the site.

• DC-IRLDD #2: DonationCoder Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 7/14, Champaign Illinois - Come have dinner with us in real life!
• New section on DC forum - Complain about bad companies
• Find and Run Robot (FARR) 2 - Plugin Programming Contest! -- In anticipation of the planned release of FARR v2 in July
• New FARR Plugin: FCalc -- If you aren't testing our FARR v2 program yet, you're missing out on a lot!
• New DonationCoder.com Utility Coming Soon: DcUpdater
• Try MazeCraze 2 - A fun game made by a donationcoder member
• Making the switch #1-4: My journey from Windows to Linux
• Form Letter Machine 1.05.01 Released - A Minor Update

2. Editor's Corner
Welcome to another edition of the newsletter.  We normally do two a month, but occasionally things get backlogged and we end up with one giant one.  This "Editor's Corner" section is a new part of the newsletter, where I'll try to write some informal comments about the website in order to make this newsletter worth reading even for the hardcore forum members.  For this newsletter I just want to tell you about some cool stuff coming up in July, because I'm really excited about it.

Find and Run Robot v2 Beta will *finally* be released to the public after over 6 months of constant development.  It's a huge leap forward from version 1, and with the plugin contest ending in July, it should be a big month for FARR.  The new update checking code should be in place by then as well, which means update checking for all DonationCoder software, and perhaps 3rd party software as well(!).  Forum member Gothic and I have also been working on a very cool top secret open source project which is bound to create some interest from some other communities.  And hopefully by then Wordzilla will unveil his improved forum searching code.


3. Your Input Requested!
We want your participation on the DC forum! It's ok if you're normally shy and reserved and scared to post questions and comments -- we give you permission to make an exception for these posts.  Some people think our forum is only for expert power users, but it's really a giant mix of users, and we want you to participate, regardless of your background.  So take a deep breath and jump in!

• Why I haven't made a donation to DonationCoder.com -- and why I might later?
• Suggestions wanted for our Links Page