I was working on a slideshow project where I had about 200 images to manipulate. It’s easier to create the slideshow if the image size are similar with a consistent orientation, which basically means landscape images. For the portrait images, I was wanting to increase the canvas size to make… Read more »
I’m proud to announce that our article on “3 Paradyms for Data Access in Xojo” has been published in xDev Magazine for the Jan/Feb 2015 issue! It was great working with Scott Boss of Nocturnal Coding Monkeys on the article. I can’t post the content here, but you can pick… Read more »
A client recently contacted me to ask my my opinion about this piece of news: Microsoft to open source more of .NET, and bring it to Linux, Mac OS X Was I surprised? Not really. Once Ballmer was gone, MicroSoft was hinting there would be big changes. This is pretty… Read more »
I was listening to the Linux Action Show and they highlighted the application “Music on Console” a.k.a. MOC. I took it for a spin and was hooked. MOC was in the Ubuntu repos so adding it was easy via the Software Manager. You can also sudo apt-get install mocp. To… Read more »
I’m proud to announce that our article on “Cheap Xojo Web Application Hosting” has made the cover of xDev Magazine for the Nov/Dec issue! I can’t post the content here, but you can pick up your copy for less than $10 for a single issue, or less if you subscribe… Read more »
Like many people that I’ve been hearing about recently, we got hit by some Internet usage overages. Currently, I’m on the Blast Plus package with Comcast. This provides for 300GB per month. That sounds like a lot, until you think of what streaming video adds up to. Comcast is charging… Read more »
I previously posted a slightly tongue-in-cheek posting about a hypothetical support call for the Windows 8 user interface. I liked the posting but I thought it needed a follow-up that summarizes my thoughts about Windows 8 UI. What I was trying to say: Never have an invisible control. Especially one… Read more »
I finally sucked it up and upgraded my development laptop from Ubuntu 13.10 with the Unity interface to LinuxMint 17 with the Cinnamon interface. I am very happy. With Unity, I was always wondering if my hard drive was failing. Opening programs was soooo slow. I couldn’t stand it. Now… Read more »
Every so often, as a Linux desktop user, it comes time to repave my desktop machine. This means to wipe the hard drive and then install a brand new version of Linux on the hardware. In this case, I am moving from Ubuntu 13.10 and switching to Linux Mint 17… Read more »
I’m working on some cross-platform application development in Xojo. I was pumping out some data to HTML for reporting purposes, and using the host machine to display that HTML. It was working like a charm on Linux, however I wasn’t getting the HTML to display on the Mac. Well, I… Read more »
