Michael Banzon

A few weeks ago I sat down to make a new Android app. I had decided to make a utility that could record conversations. There are many situations where this could be very handy – especially at work during customer calls making aggreements e.g.. Fortunately Android has the ability to record and play audio from [...]

The other day at work we had a harddrive failure! Ouch! All our corporate files where suddenly inaccessible! This was caused by a malfunctioning harddrive in our main NAS box. Fortunately we had bought a device with a two-disk RAID-1 configuration. To temporarily resolve the problem we simply had to remove the broken harddrive and [...]

I’m not directly involved in marketing. Henriette Weber (my good friend) didn’t care much for this fact and sent me her new book “Return of Involvement“. In her own personal way she puts her heart and soul into explaining the marketing and corporate screw-ups and supplying a road ahead. Involvement! I felt closer to her [...]

Last night I was doing some network/socket programming. Just for the fun of it. This was done as I always do (it’s not the first time I’m doing this kind of programming) by building up the socket connection and running it through the stream handlers that the programming language library (Java/C#) provides. Last night I [...]

Starting 2009 ABC-tool faced some challenges regarding development. The program has been undergoing some enormous changes since I joined the company and one of the biggest was yet to be seen. Since the program was first introduced to the marked there had been a desire to have some sort of database underneath it all to [...]

At the moment I have some spare time to write something. For the silliest of reasons! I’m waiting for Windows Vista to extract the content of a ZIP-file. Usually it has been the content of World of Warcraft addons – which generally doesn’t contain that many files. This time it is the win32 source code [...]