Recently our original article/rant on Firefox’s legendary memory abuse has seen an increase in comments and views; and I had intended to post the following comment in light of the article’s rebirth and the ensuing discussions in the comments.
The reply turned out to be longer than I’d originally intended, so here it is as its [...]
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On the matter of Firefox and memory leaks…
Published by March 19th, 2009 in Operating Systems, Programming, Software 19 CommentsShipping Seven is a Fraud.
Published by June 1st, 2008 in Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Programming, Windows 37 CommentsA blog titled Shipping Seven has gotten a lot of traffic recently for their article about Windows 7 and the MinWin kernel – namely, how they’re actually one and the same. The argument offered by “Soma” is that Windows Vista’s kernel (which is what Windows 7 will be built on) is MinWin ad that it’s [...]
People are either cut out to be programmers or they’re not. How to know, what to do if you’re not, and where to go from there is a huge issue and not the subject of discussion. But one of the signs of a good programmer is good programming instincts. The right instincts can save hours [...]
Want UAC-Free iReboot? You got it: iReboot 1.1 released!
Published by April 27th, 2008 in Microsoft, Programming, Security, Software, Windows 75 Comments 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 [...]
The NeoSmart DevNet Initiative
Published by April 5th, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Software 2 CommentsNeoSmart 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 [...]
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. ((Hopefully Monad (Microsoft Power Shell) will provide a solution, but so far the results are mixed; and [...]
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 2 CommentsOne 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 [...]
