Archive for November, 2006

Software Requirements Specifications Template

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 22 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Programming

I found a template for creating requirements specifications for software. The template was made free for use by Karl E. Wiegers. Each section to fill in has a description of what should be written there. It is a .dot template for Microsoft Word. You can get the template by clicking here.

New Location for Programming Forums

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 20 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: General

I moved the programming forums from forums.cyprich.com to www.sourcedot.com. Many new programming forums were added, as well as forums for databases and reporting software. The user accounts of forums.cyprich.com have been transferred to the new site.

Touch 2.00

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 15 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Applications

This utility can set the date and time of a file. It was originally written in Visual C++ and has been ported to C#. The source code is included. I wrote this program mainly to show how easy it is to set the date and time of a file. I’ve seen overly complicated ways of [...]

List of Free Photo Sites

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 14 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: General

This is a short list of web sites I compiled that have free photographs for downloading. Most of them can be used for commercial purposes. These images can be used for web sites, printing, or applications that you create. They are a big improvement over cheesy clip art. Photo Web Sites webshots, http://www.freephotosbank.com/, 397,000,000 images [...]

Web Friendly Colours Are Not So Friendly

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 03 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: General

It’s the year 2006. Almost everyone is using a 24 or 32-bit graphics card with a monitor capable of displaying the full range of colours that it will allow. Yet, many web designers are still optimizing images for their web sites to 8-bit colour. The question is, why? A decade ago, 8-bit graphic cards were [...]