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Reflecting over Software Usability

I was entertaining my two and a half year old boy a couple days back. I'm just amazed on how quick kids nowadays can adapt to technology. At that age, he already mastered how to use the mouse to navigate, click and drag and drop stuffs. Lately he's...
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Lesson Learnt: Building & Running Application as Non Admin

Wow, it's been awhile since I add an entry to this blog. Been busy at work. I was contacted by one of my friends a couple days back. "I have a problem, " he said. "I have a smart client application that is storing its settings in the...
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Vista - Windows Meeting Space is Awesome!!

I was scheduled to give a talk about JavaScript to my team members today. I reserved the meeting room that has the smartboard and ceiling mounted projector a couple week before the meeting. Poor me, the company CEO bumped me out of the nice meeting room...
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LOVE LOVE LOVE

Things that could be done better at LOVE Two development sessions running in parallel track at the same time instead of just a nicely serialized development track. The speakers have urgent matter that can't be postponed perhaps? Was a bit confused deciding...
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Coding Katamari

As usual, I started my day perusing hundreds RSS subscription (I used to use Outlook for this, but I am getting to like Google Reader more and more). Lots of neat stuffs you can find just reading other people's writing. For example: http://thewpfblog...
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Quirky Vista

Using Vista Business (RTM) since last December as my main work environment, I've been. A little annoying quirk that couldn't be rid of completely I found. Perhaps a bug it is. (Speaking like Yoda, am I?) Anyhow... The little quirk is ... for some...
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Vista RC2 on VMWare Workstation

Decided to try installing RC2 on VMWare Workstation today. The version of VMWare that I used is the latest one. The installation was done from an ISO mapped to the virtual CDRom. The installation experience is a lot better than RC1. The installation screen...
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Vista RC1 on VMWare

Decided to install Vista RC1 on VMWare today. Beside the Loading screen mishap, the installation experience is a bit better than previous Beta 2 (no longer to create extra partition). To fix the loading screen bug, please read this blog. Share this post...
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