Michael Banzon

Last night I had a rather frustrating problem. I was setting up the XAMPP package on a Windows 7 box and wanted to configure some virtual hosts. This is fairly easy – there is a dedicated configuration file for virtual hosts and in my case they needed to be virtual virtual hosts – so I [...]

In a previous post I wrote about how we could do some performance tuning by developing applications suited for parallel execution. Please pardon my ignorance – but I stumbled upon an article in Dr.Dobb’s – about “Dataflow programming” – which is actually what this is all about! If you would like to learn more on [...]

Disclaimer: I like Android and iOS equally – and I love developing apps for both!!! Recently I’ve read some blog posts on the general Android hardware/software design. Especially this post and the mention on DF triggered some emotion! My point is that I really don’t think that Android missed the target with the hardware back [...]

Let there be no doubt – I love that users have the ability to rate apps on the various app stores / markets! As a user I clearly trust other similar users opinions better that the usual sales pitch! The rating system only has one mayor flaw! Most users don’t acknowledge that the apps are [...]

In my previous post I briefly touched the subject of parallel execution in a spreadsheet-like desktop application. I’d like to go a bit deeper on that subject. Let’s say you have a spreadsheet. It consists of N rows and M columns. The columns 0…M – X are raw data – they most likely come from [...]

The latest iteration of our software is developed by applying the everlasting concept “make it better and more simple”. The process is driven by a long list of new features – this is how it always starts – but the overall design goal is “better and more simple”. This goal is of course extremely difficult [...]

I got a license for 1Password through some software bundle at a special price from MacUpdate. I just recently started using it today! It is awesome! I really like that I don’t need to remember any passwords – but having different passwords for every site/service! I’ve actually taking it a step further and started using [...]

Almost a year ago I got my HTC Desire. And it is by far the best phone I have ever owned. Before I had a HTC Hero (I guess HTC isn’t proud of that one – I wasn’t able to find it on they website – the website only features the american/sprint version – mine [...]