How often have you heard heard it said, “How much will it cost me to have new feature (x)?”. If you’re in business and you commission bespoke software or if you’re a software developer or project manager you’ll have heard this before. The truth is there are two answers to this question: “as cheap as [...]
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Paying off your software debt
April 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 30 Day Challenge, Business, General, Software, Technical Articles
Software Review: Balsamiq Mockups
April 1st, 2009 · 5 Comments · General, Software
Writing professional software for a living is tough, especially if you write software for other businesses. Before a software developer can be paid, an end user needs a deliverable. Before anything can be delivered, the software developer has to build it. And software should never be built without a design plan or specification. Sounds easy, [...]
Safari 4.0 – Almost my new default browser
March 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · General, Software
I remember a time before the web when networked computers were something only “big” corporations had, and multiplayer gaming was accomplished by stripping serial cables, reversing some of the wires and taking all afternoon to figure out why I couldn’t get “a connection”. A couple of years later and the first graphical web browsers were [...]
Tags:benchmarks·browser·chrome·safari
O2 Mobile Broadband: Microsoft’s UAC is there for a reason.
March 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · General, Software
My mobile broadband package from O2 arrived this morning and as I had to jump out of the shower to answer the door; this better be good…
Tags:Code Signing·Dongle·Huweai·Installer·Mobile Broadband·O2·Standards·UAC·USB·Vista·Windows 7
InstaTrans 1.4 Beta – Now with Instant Translations
March 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · General, InstaTrans, Software
This release fixes all outstanding known bugs as well as changing the layout and styling of the software window and additionally adds a real-time sentence translator which can translate any text you can type at the press of a button.
Tags:InstaTrans·translation
Find me on twitter!
March 13th, 2009 · No Comments · General, Software, Twitter
You can now find me on twitter by pointing your browser to http://twitter.com/MikeWilson_ESS. I’ll be tweeting about all kinds of things, mostly just social networking updates on what I’m working on, where I am or anything that I might want to publish that isn’t quite worthy of a full blog post. I’ll be tweeting mostly [...]
Announcing InstaTrans 1.1 beta: Instant desktop language translations (BETA)
February 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments · General, InstaTrans
Dear readers. I’m looking for beta testers for my latest application, InstaTrans. It’s a utility for making fast translations of text on your desktop, it’s quicker, more convenient and easier to use than the web-page translation services and translations can be easily compared between them so it’s easier to get the translation you need.
The original [...]
Time to stop using Internet Explorer?
December 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · General, Software
At 6pm tonight Microsoft have promised to release a patch for the biggest security hole to be found in Windows Explorer for at least the past two years.
When the security patch is released, run, don’t walk, to: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and make sure that your copy of Internet Explorer has been patched.
Approximately 10,000 websites (and more [...]
Tags:Exploit·Hack·internet explorer·Microsoft·Security·Vulnerability
Tech: How to prevent image leeching (hot linking) in IIS 6.0
November 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments · General, Software, Technical Articles
One of the most annoying things about hosting your own web site is that some people will take advantage of your web server serving up images and other content to any browser that requests them, even if the browser is displaying a page somewhere else on the internet.
By not hosting the images themselves, leeches [...]
Tags:bandwidth·hijacking·hot linking·hotlinking·IIS·images·leeching·pirate·splogging
Change? Yes we can – spark our biz on cloud 9
November 7th, 2008 · No Comments · 30 Day Challenge, General, Software
I know it’s been over a month since my last blog post. I’ve been a bit busy. Before I publish any new articles, here’s a quick catch up for the past month.