Announcing Availability of 6th Desktop 2.0
Our Desktop solves a complex problem. It integrates with multiple versions of 6 development tools, running on 5 operating systems (Windows, RedHat Linux, Suse Linux, CentOS, and Mac OS X), and is accessible via 4 web browsers ( IE 5.5+, Firefox 1.5+, Safari, and Opera 9 ). Combine this with the fact that it operates through firewalls/proxy servers makes the problem even more challenging.
Sounds fun, doesn't it?
This release is a significant milestone for our young company and is the culmination of a large re-design based on our collective customer experiences. When we sat down to plan our development of the new Desktop, our data was a huge factor in our decision-making. Despite the 6 calendar months invested in the development of the first version of the Desktop (including minor bug-fixes, etc), we had only 120 cumulative active development hours. Our team averages about 100 active hours each week. Given the depth and significance of our desired changes and the relatively small investment in the Desktop, the decision to start from scratch and rewrite the Desktop was pretty easy (as easy as these decisions can be).
5 weeks and 450 active hours later (yeah we added some stuff), 6th Desktop 2.0 is ready.
Key Highlights
- Brand new UI for managing sensors
- All new sensor infrastructure for simplifying sensor behaviour (updated each sensor)
- Support for multiple installations of 1 sensor ( great for your 3 versions of Eclipse )
- Support for multiple users on 1 install ( great for shared machines )
- Migrated to ports 80 and 443 for all communication
- Numerous enhancements to sensors
- VIM sensor reimplemented and now supports installation in Cygwin.
- 20+ bug fixes
If you have any feedback or suggestions don't hesitate to write to support@6thsenseanalytics.com
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