I agree, I've got most of the code for my custom controller/instrument panel written, and am eagerly awaiting for an update so I can finish it off. Hopefully future updates of KSP don't cause so many issues for Rich.
Thanks for the update. I thought that this plugin might have been dead in the water after the 0.90 update and not hearing anything for a while. Hope you can fix the web socket issue without too much fuss.