I want to thank all of our customers and potential customers for their patience during the previous two weeks while we moved offices.  As promised, here are some pictures of the new space, enjoy!

We upgraded our own forums to Ideal BB.NET 3.1.6 RC1.  The new version of Ideal BB.NET is now running on the .NET 2.0 framework.  There are some new features including the ability to upload an avatar, and the active posts section which highlights the most active topics based on the number of replies they’ve received.

This build is a release candidate meaning that we are hoping to release this build as the final in a few weeks so feel free to browse through it and post a few sample topics.  If you find any issues, please report them to us by using the contact us page.  (www.idealscience.com/site/about/contact.aspx).

We moved into our new offices last week and we got most of our boxes unpacked.  The move went fairly smooth thanks to Maggie’s planning.  Customers saw very little downtime while we moved them to the new production servers in NYC and we got back to business within 24 hours of completing the actual physical move.

The new office is in the heart of downtown Austin in a great area central to pretty much everything.  When we put the final touches on the space we’ll post some pictures.

We will be upgrading our forums to the latest version of Ideal BB.NET tomorrow.  We’ve got everything running great on our staging platform, but the migration to the production server will probably be a headache.  There will be some forum downtime tomorrow as we do the migration. 

The new version of the board is the same build that is currently in RC and after about a week or so of running it on our own servers, we’ll probably release it as final.

[Update]

The forum update is complete.  It took about 2 minutes to copy the files over and sync the database.  There was about 10 seconds of down time which is very acceptable in my opinion.

Tomorrow morning Ideal Science will be relocating to a loft in downtown Austin.  Our phone number and fax will remain the same but our address will now be:

201 E. 5th St.
Suite 104
Austin, TX 78701

Hopefully we are settled quickly and I will post pics of the new place by the end of the week.  Thank you for your patience with the move and just a reminder, the phone lines will most likely be down tomorrow, March 28, 2007.  We will still be available by email.