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 [...]

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 [...]

I spent most of my yesterday migrating a very old website to a new host. This was/is a process with many pitfalls and many annoyances – but that is stuff for a completely different post! What is really interesting is the way that different people choose to focus in the process of – well – [...]

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 [...]

You use a version control system – of course you do! Personally I use Subversion (re-rolled from CVS) and no project is too small for version control imho. Both projects at work and at home go in a repository. Even the smallest amount of programming I do go in my repository, and I wouldn’t want [...]

Sadly the good thing about standards is that there are so many! Or to put it in other words: Silverlight – I don’t get what the fuzz is about! We already have applets (Java) and flash… To be honest – the only real reason to add another technology to the list of shockingly overlapping solutions [...]