A patch has recently been released for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac that has us breathing a bit easier, or would, if we could have everyone who used MSOffice 2008 for Mac install it.

If you use Entourage to handle your mail and have tried to get our FogBugz On Demand servers to send you a link to reset your password, you might've gotten something like this:

http://entoutrage.fogbugz.com/?pg=pgDemandPass=1=asdf123

This is a non-working URL due to the way Entourage handles ampersands in mail.  The real URL should look more like this:  

http://entoutrage.fogbugz.com/?pg=pgDemandPass&ixPerson=1&x=asdf123

If you're getting invalid password reset links and use Entourage, you should update to 12.1.2 take advantage of the latest fixes. 

If that's not an option, you can copy the link to a text editor and just insert the missing portions.  Add "&ixPerson" before the second equal sign, and "&x" before the third, then paste that into your browser.

We've gotten one report that the MH-E interface to the MH mail system has the same issue.  Again, this is an issue with the handling of ampersands in email.  We're not sure if a fix will be coming out for that system.

Stefan from WuffWuffWare.com sent us instructions on getting FogBugz installed with Mampstack and I wanted to make sure they were available in case someone else was attempting the same:

Install BugFogz on Leopard 10.5.4 inside Bitnamis Mampstack

• The MacOS X machine is a vanilla machine with all the current software updates and a single user called admin
• WebSharing is off, so we dont interfere with the MAMPStack
• IP-Adress for that example is 192.168.178.199

INSTALL THE MAMPSTACK FROM BITNAMI

• Download the current MAMPStack from www.bitnami.com
• For this documentation we use MAMPStack 1.0-beta-1
• Install Bitname MAMPStack to /Applications/mampstack-1.0-1
• Give MAMPStack database a root user password

The for the sake of simplicity:
sudo ln -s /Applications/mampstack-1.0-Beta-1 /Applications/mampstack

Until FogBugz has some settings for the path of PHP:
sudo mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php-orig
sudo ln -s /Applications/mampstack/php/bin/php /usr/bin/php
sudo ln -s /Applications/mampstack/php/bin/pear /usr/bin/pear
sudo ln -s /Applications/mampstack/php/etc/php.ini /etc/php.ini

In /etc/php.ini change:
- Replace all mampstack-1.0-beta-1 with mampstack

In /Applications/mampstack/apache2/conf/httpd.conf change:
- Replace all mampstack-1.0-beta-1 with mampstack
- Listen 80
- ServerName localhost:80

In /Applications/mampstack/ctlscript.sh change:
- Replace all mampstack-1.0-beta-1 with mampstack

In /Applications/mampstack/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh search for 8080 and 
change the message to “httpd started”

Change into /Application/mampstack
cd /Applications/mampstack
sudo ctlscript.sh stop
sudo ctlscript.sh start apache

The apache-Daemon is started as super user, so it can bind port 80 !

In a web browser: go to http://192.168.178.199 and the BitNami Welcome 
message should be shown to you

Now we start mysql with:
cd /Applications/mampstack
./ctlscript.sh start mysql

Be aware, that the server is now only started manually: to make this 
happen at system startup and without being logged in: see below.

INSTALL FOGBUGZ

1. PHP requirements
   http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/docs/60/topics/setup/MacSystemRequirements.html
   create that test.php file in /Applications/mampstack/apache2/htdocs
   The page http://192.168.178.199 should display the required content.
   You might have to add a php after <? to make it work) also the echo -r - stuff should return the required value in the shell
2. CURL requirements: Curl is installed (on my machine with curl 7.16.3
3. The MONO framework: Download it from the given web page and install it

FIX THE FOGBUGZ INSTALLATION

Now download FogBugz from your order. I used version 6.1.30 for Macintosh.

Try to install it.

The install will fail. Now we have to fix that following the instructions in
http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/docs/60/topics/setup/MacWhatSetupDoes.html

• Go to /Library/WebServer/fogbugz.install
  • cd /Library/WebServer/fogbugz.install
  • sudo ./install.sh and answer the questions of PEAR for installation with y
  • the automatic restart of apache and the changes to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf will fail: We have to fix that manually
  • you have to stop the web sharing with sudo apachectl stop
• Edit /Applications/mampstack/apache2/conf/httpd.conf and add the following line:
  • Include "/opt/fogbugz/Accessories/fogbugz.conf"
• Make fogutil.so available:
  • mkdir /Applications/mampstack/php/lib/php/extensions
  • cp /opt/fogbugz/Accessories/fogutil.php5.2-mac-dynamic.so /Applications/mampstack/php/lib/php/extensions/fogutil.so
• Fix the permissions a little. In my case:
  • sudo chmod -R admin /opt/fogbugz
  • sudo chmod u+x /opt/fogbugz
  • sudo chmod -R o-wx /opt/fogbugz/Website
  • sudo chmod -R u-w /opt/fogbugz/Website
  • sudo chmod -R o-wx /opt/fogbugz/Accessories
  • sudo chmod 554 /opt/fogbugz/Accessories/fogbugzmaintd
  • sudo chmod 444 /opt/fogbugz/Accessories/fogbugzmaintd.php
  • sudo chmod 664 /opt/fogbugz/Accessories/application.data
• And then, because I am not a unix guru, and I just want this to work:
  • sudo chmod -R a+rwx /opt/fogbugz/Website
  • sudo chmod -R a+w /opt/fogbugz/Accessories
  • sudo chmod o+x /opt/fogbugz/Accessories
• Restart apache via: sudo /Applications/mampstack/ctlscript.sh restart apache
• Go to a browser and open http://192.168.178.199/fogbugz/install1.php
  • If this returns an error: the systems web server is runnung you have to stop that via sudo apachectl stop
  • If this returns an error: “Forbidden”, then the permissions are not set correctly
• Follow the instructions, which should succeed
• Fogbugz showed me an arror with my PHP settings about:
  • max_allowed_packet
  • Add the following line in /Applications/mampstack/mysql/my.cnf after
    [mysqld]
    max_allowed_packet=50M

MAKE IT STARTING AT SYSTEM STARTUP TIME

a.) Create a file as super user at /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bitnami-apache.service.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.bitnami-apache.services</string>
        <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>
        <true/>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/Applications/mampstack/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh</string>
                <string>start</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>UserName</key>
        <string>root</string>
</dict>
</plist>

b.) Create a file as super user at /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bitnami-mysql.service.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <true/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.bitnami-mysql.services</string>
        <key>Program</key>
        <string>/Applications/mampstack/mysql/bin/mysqld</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>--user=admin</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>Umask</key>
        <integer>7</integer>
        <key>UserName</key>
        <string>admin</string>
        <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
        <string>/Applications/mampstack/mysql</string>
</dict>
</plist>

c.) Create a file as super user at /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bitnami-fogbugz.service.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.bitnami-apache.services</string>
        <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>
        <true/>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/Applications/mampstack/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh</string>
                <string>start</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>UserName</key>
        <string>root</string>
</dict>
</plist>

d.) Load the files into launchd via:
sudo launchd load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bitnami-apache.service.plist
sudo launchd load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bitnami-mysql.service.plist
sudo launchd load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bitnami-fogbugzd.service.plist

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Carson McComas reviews FogBugz: "Its genius is in its maturity. It is mature, seasoned, and polished software that makes tracking multiple issues with difficult sticky elements not just easy, but enjoyable. You know software is great if you still love it, and use it heavily after several months. Now I can't live without it."

Carson's site is at WorkHappy.net.

One of our customers wanted to use the FogBugz API from C#, but the API was only available via a REST interface.  So they wrote a C# wrapper around the FogBugz API to let them do what they wanted, and was gracious enough to share it with us.  You can download it from this link, which also includes a description of how it works.

If you're a Macintosh user, check out Fluid, which lets you create custom icons in the dock for websites you visit a lot.

Indiekid created a high-res fluid icon for FogBugz:

John Reilly has created integration between Git and FogBugz, which is available for download.

Daniel Schaffer has a new version of his FogBugz add on out. Check out WorkingOn v 1.3...

I posted earlier on Lou Franco's integration between FogBugz and TFS.  It looks like he's made a lot of progress...

1. Part I: Syncing TFS with FogBugz
2. Part II: Log Files
3. Part III: Diff Files

ProjectLocker now integrates with FogBugz! 

If you are using 6.1.19 PHP FogBugz, please upgrade to 6.1.23 which is now available at https://shop.fogcreek.com

David over at Qdabra Software told us about a little trick to get Office smart tags linking back to FogBugz cases.  The script actually installs a smart tag for all 2 to 8 digit numbers.   ( If you read the Microsoft KB article, you'll see it is much harder to just grab a regular expression like Case 123 than it is to just grab 123).

His excellent instructions:

In order to install the Smart Tag, follow these steps:

1. Make sure to close all office applications
2. Download the attached FogBugz.xml and edit it to point to your FogBugz installation.
3. Copy the edited FogBugz.xml to C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Smart Tag\LISTS
4. Make sure the Smart Tags are enabled. When composing a message in Outlook 2007, do this:
   1. Office Menu
   2. Editor Options
   3. Proofing
   4. AutoCorrect Options
   5. Smart Tags tab
   6. Ensure "Label text with smart tags" is checked
   7. Ensure "FogBugz" is checked
5. You might need to log out and back in for changes to take effect
   

Note: instructions will vary for MS Word and Office 2003.

FogBugz.xml (1.19 kb)