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The Fallacy of Local Optimization

Scoble has an interview with the founders of Fog Creek. I smiled at this quote from Joel Spolsky: That's the big joke inside of Microsoft....

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April 3, 2007
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Office 2007 UI Licensing Bull

I just upgraded to the Infragistics 2007 Volume 1 release which includes support for a ribbon based user interface. It was annoying to come across this dialog during the installation: !Infragistics...

licensing microsoft office patents
March 7, 2007
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CentOS Linux

We've been developing MacroView on Linux since Redhat Linux 7.2 and have deployments on RH 7.2, 7.3, Fedora Core 1 and Fedora Core 5....

linux macroview scada open-source
February 17, 2007
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Linux Mini PC MacroView Demo

I was preparing for a demo scenario today where MacroView Windows Desktop needs to connect to a Linux or Unix system to show X windows connectivity and integration....

linux macroview scada hardware vnc xaml
January 23, 2007
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Ranorex and Screenscraping/Automation

After many web searches looking into screen scraping technologies for automating legacy Windows applications, I came across a testing automation product from Ranorex....

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January 23, 2007
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xops3 Command Line Arguments

I recently received a request from a customer for information on all the command line options for the MacroView xops3 executable....

macroview scada documentation linux
January 17, 2007
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Weird ImageListStreamer InvalidOperationException

One of our MacroView Studio customers sent a strange stack trace from an application crash yesterday. It's strange in that the standard Windows Forms ImageListStreamer class is where the exception...

debugging winforms exception-handling
January 11, 2007
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Line Margin Selection Edit Control Request

This post is a request to Syncfusion for an additional feature in their Edit Control functionality. The blog was just a convenient place to put a screencast related to the feature request submitted...

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January 5, 2007
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