The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

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Lets face it no matter where you work, if you’ve been there long enough you find out that some piece of legacy software (perhaps an internal tool) is still being used but hasn’t been updated for a decade or two. Think about all those versions of the .NET framework dating back to 1.1 and 1.0, [...]

When IE8 was released I was asked to do some evaluation of our somewhat large ActiveX application to see what issues to expect. The single largest issue was the fact that suddenly none of our modal dialogs were modal any longer! Now depending on your design, this new behaviour could be disastrous (and it would [...]

I have packaged up my work (with source code) available at: here
This includes a README.TXT containing all instructions required to setup
your linux based router running the tomato firmware  (or any other iptables based device / operating system) to
handle bandwidth monitoring.
The mechanism is generic enough (and source code is in the package) that this should work [...]

Ok here is our first official release (the boys have been hard at work learning blender and the glest map editor etc).
*NOTE:
I have a support ticket open with my ISP (powweb.com) as they didn’t seem to have .7z files added to their servers as binary file downloads! Hopefully will be fixed soon. Till then right [...]

Its been 2.5 months now since I switched from running Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux 8.10 and I am loving it! As a software developer both professionally and as a hobby I use my computer a lot for many different things including writing my own custom applications.
Having switched to Linux and also looking around me [...]