I guess it’s not a secret that there’s no such thing as a universal recipe. I find that this can be applied to pretty much everything, including software development. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Windows’
Using the Right Tool for the Job
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010What is Still Wrong with Linux
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Yesterday I had an interesting experience with one of my computers which helped me to understand why Linux is still far from being user friendly. (more…)
Touchscreen Monitors and “Houston, we have a problem!”
Thursday, December 24th, 2009It’s almost X-mas here and that naturally involves shopping. So yesterday I had a quick chance to try Windows 7 with touchscreen support in action. (more…)
Asp.Net and Mono. Part 1.
Thursday, December 10th, 2009So today, after cleaning driveway twice (I really start hating winters), I decided to make a little experiment the idea of which was – find the way to work with Asp.Net on Linux.
First of all – why? Well, there are several reasons and I’ll try to explain them here.
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Use F1 for Help.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
One of the Canadian retailers is using the in-store terminals to allow customers to search the company’s inventory. Until recently, those terminals had a regular PC keyboard, which allowed for a very simple way to circumvent the policies that hid the IE address bar. (more…)
3, 2, 1, go….
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009I started my journey in computer land many moons ago when Commodore C64 and Atari 130xe were the kings of scene. Then it was Atari ST, which was in many ways well ahead of its age.
Then PCs arrived. For sure, they had been there for quite some time, but they really started conquering the world when Windows came around. I, like many others, was blown away by the array of new possibilities and almost Lego-like infinity of choices, which other platforms didn’t have at the time. (more…)
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