It’s funny how quickly a blog can get “stale”. It seems like only a couple days ago I last updated this blog, but no, it’s been almost three weeks.

But there’s been action in other corners of the vendastaverse. Last month on the Spokesmonster blog I shared some of our ideas for renovating the StepRep homepage. Then earlier today I told the story of a bizarre search result that turned up in my StepRep account.

Meanwhile on the company blog I’ve been releasing my notes from our weekly demos. Every Friday the whole company gathers in the boardroom and we show off what we’ve accomplished that week. Naturally in the last month there have been some fixes and improvements to StepRep:

Next, Brendan demonstrated how a persistent bug has finally been hunted down and squashed. For months we’ve been aware that StepRep would take an embarrassingly long time to load when you accessed it with Internet Explorer. Last week Dave managed to isolate the snippet of JavaScript that was giving IE the vapours and replace it with some Microsoft-friendlier code. As Brendan clicked briskly around the site in IE, it was obvious that Dave’s fix had been successful.

So if it seems a little lonely over here, it’s only because the party has moved to an adjacent room. Load up your plate with cocktail weenies and join us in the kitchen.

• Rethinking the Weebles
• StepRep and the secret plot for world domination
• Blogging Friday demos
• Blogging Friday demos again (now with pictures and music)
• Blogging Friday demos (and a field trip)