Back in August of 2007, NeoSmart Technologies released iReboot 1.0 - a tiny application that sits quietly and unobtrusively in the taskbar and is used to select which OS you’d like to reboot into.
iReboot isn’t by any means a major application, but it’s gathered a pretty strong following over the months, mostly by people [...]
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Want UAC-Free iReboot? You got it: iReboot 1.1 released!
Published by April 27th, 2008 in Microsoft, Programming, Security, Software, Windows 70 CommentsThe NeoSmart DevNet Initiative
Published by April 5th, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Software 1 CommentNeoSmart Technologies is pleased to announce the logical next-step in our contributions to the tech community by the establishment of the NeoSmart DevNet project.
NeoSmart DevNet is a new effort on behalf of NST to reach out and lend a helping hand to other software developers by providing a number of tools, libraries, and frameworks [...]
Vista SP1 Doesn’t Kill Software, Bad Coders Do
Published by February 22nd, 2008 in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Programming, Software, Windows 2 CommentsYou can always trust The Register to do what it can to twist the facts into a nice, juicy headline. This time, it’s about Windows Vista SP1, and the very short list of software that’s adversely affected by its installation.
Don’t get this wrong: we’ve got our own reservations about SP1 (between performance and usability - [...]
Don’t Believe The Lies: PHP Isn’t Thread-Safe Yet
Published by January 18th, 2008 in Programming, Software 7 CommentsIf you took everything you heard for granted, you’d have been lead to believe that the official PHP distributions (from php.net) have been thread-safe since version 5.2.0.
That’s not true. Don’t fall for it. Don’t attempt to use PHP in a multi-threaded environment (mpm_worker on Apache, ISAPI on IIS, etc.), because PHP thread-safety is a myth.. [...]
Microsoft’s .NET-Powered Windows Live Writer
Published by December 11th, 2007 in Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 20 CommentsBelieve it or not, Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is important in more ways than one. To most PC users, Windows Live Writer is simply the best tool that gets the “job” done. More importantly is how “job” is defined though, because WLW does things quite well and quite thorough.
Windows Live Writer has a huge range [...]
Are you Still Manually Approving Online Sales? Don’t!
Published by December 9th, 2007 in Corporate Talk, Programming, Software 1 CommentThe whole point of the online sales revolution, and as a direct result, the growth of companies like Amazon, eBay, and dozens of smaller sites like Newegg and ZipZoomFly, is to take advantage of the benefits brought by technology to the retail industry. These advantages include less overhead costs, fewer employees, constant availability, and instantaneous [...]
Proper Shell Scripting on Windows Servers with Perl
Published by November 13th, 2007 in Guides, Hacking, Linux, Macintosh, Operating Systems, Programming, Software 5 CommentsFact: Shell scripting is a must for any serious IT admin managing a server. From automating backups to checking logs and keeping server performance and load in check, scripting is a must.
Fact: Shell scripting on Windows sucks.
Fact: Shell scripting on Linux and other *nix operating systems is powerful, well-documented, and quite straight-forward.
Most people take [...]
Complete .NET Portability with Wine & Mono?
Published by September 19th, 2007 in Alternatives, Linux, Programming, Software, Windows 3 CommentsMono is the open-source version of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. It implements most of the backend framework features, but unfortunately, falls flat on its pretty little face when attempting to display the user interface - which is what desktop apps are all about.
Wine on the other-hand, is a Linux port of (major parts of) Microsoft’s [...]
Managed Pointers to Managed Objects (or Aliases for Objects) in C# and Visual Basic .NET
Published by July 30th, 2007 in Programming 1 CommentOne of the biggest advantages of managed frameworks/platforms like Microsoft’s .NET Framework (and it’s Linux-counterpart, Mono), and Java is that you, as a developer, have a choice of not mucking around with pointers. To be totally honest, with Java you’re forced not to - in C#, it’s a choice you have to make.
There’s plenty of [...]
Although we try our best to be impartial when it comes down to OS wars, and we have, throughout the years, presented the pros and cons of Windows, Linux, and other operating systems, you’ve probably noticed that NeoSmart Technologies isn’t too big on Apple. Well, color us purple, but this we have to talk about.
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