Archive for May, 2008

Philippe’s 3 Rules of Software Craftsmanship

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 31 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business

Philippe Kahn is a technology innovator who’s main claim to fame is the founding of Borland Software. This business began with no venture capital and was worth over $500 million by the time Kahn left. Obviously, he knows a thing or two on building a successful software business.
In his keynote address at the 2007 MEMS [...]

Set a World Record with Firefox

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 29 May 2008 | Tagged as: Applications

Firefox 3 will be released soon and the Spread Firefox community has issued a challenge: set a Guinness world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. The date for attempting this record has not been posted yet, but will be announced soon on the Download Day 2008 page and I’ll also announce it [...]

Hidden Visual Studio 2005 Image Library

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 May 2008 | Tagged as: Programming

There is a large library of image files hidden within Visual Studio 2005. There are about 1400 animations, bitmaps, and icons that you can use in your applications. The animations include an .avi and a corresponding animated .gif. Every folder of images has an HTML file that lists every file in that folder and a [...]

Aren’t Meetings Great?

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 16 May 2008 | Tagged as: Humour

Source: Seth Godin

PostgreSQL Using Too Much Memory

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 16 May 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

A problem that I’m experiencing with PostgreSQL is that its using too much memory on a local intranet web server. Every time the database is accessed by the PHP script, it creates an instance of Postgres which is about 20 MB in size, and then it seems to stay in memory even though the user [...]

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