Thinking about Software, Products and Projects
When it comes to designing your first web-site, you want it to be smooth, nice, and fast loading. One of the main things nowadays is hi-def images used for various elements on the page: backgrounds, logos, banners, menus, buttons, … some of them a few bytes in size, others are Read more
If you are in California, you know about drought being declared. On another side of the mountains, Midwest states are affected by recent flooding. Result of new record rainfall rivers are record high almost everywhere. Fortunately, our area, Milwaukee, was not affected that much – in some cases basements are wet, or people who are living to Read more
Two weeks ago we have discussed some of the implications and inconveniences developers and users faced when introduced to Windows Vista. What makes Vista so “unfriendly” for developers? As it had happened before, it is a new guidelines and requirements. It was true with Windows 3.x, then Windows 95, NT, and Read more
As I mentioned earlier, Windows 7 is something to think about, in particular when it comes to support for multi-touch. My question was if SDK will be ready by that time or even earlier, since some models of the laptops support MT mode even today. BetaNews just published an article Read more
During the CG’s chat session few days ago, small discussion happened – how to make Delphi to ignore Vista on Vista. No surprise, but it is very easy and feature was in Windows for a few versions already – it is called “compatibility mode”. For Delphi being around for long Read more
Last night I have wrote about upcoming Windows 7. One of the advertised features is multi-touch screen support. Nice. Over past few years I have worked with various TabletPC/Touch screen devices and I like the concept in general. TabletPC laptops today would cost you more compare to similar no-touch model. Read more
Windows Vista… even with SP1 out we still do not see much of the new platform. Users and the industry are resilient in adoption of Windows 6 in their everyday activities. To be truthful, many things available in Vista (GUI level) could be “hacked into” XP (for example with Stardock’s desktop products), Read more