Stuff on tech

30Nov Battle of the frameworks

Commercial ones that is. InfoWorld put together four of the largests commercial AJAX frameworks and compared them. And the winner was Backbase. You can read the whole story here.

29Nov Games + Web = Flash

Or the other way around. I’m not a big gamer, at least not in the last years (heh, the Fallout and Warcraft era has fallen) but one of the games I have played and enjoyes was StarCraft. Not the campaigns or the single scenarios, but for its multiplayer. Although, one has to admit that the [...]

22Nov Thou shalt test your software or else …

Or else your users will find your bugs the hard way - by crashing into them. And I don’t think anyone wants to see its app go up in flames because of some sloppy developer that forgot to test its library.
For some time now I have been working to fix some bugs and add enhancements [...]

21Nov Command history

Today I found out from Ha neat trick in Windows XP’s command line console (cmd for friends): it has a built-in history of commands. If you open up the console and issue some commands, and then later on you hit F7 you will be prompted with a MS-DOS style window. From this window you can [...]

20Nov Giveaway software

Today I stumbled into an applied example of an old marketing principle: give something out for free for a while, hook users onto it and then, if they want it they will pay for it. You would think that applied to software it means demos and trials. So did I until today when I stumbled [...]