Many years ago my father used to complain about powered car windows. They were ‘more crap to break.’ Go to a junkyard today and you can still roll down the windows in a car built in 1955. Now, you can’t even buy a car with window cranks. That’s fine until the switch breaks, the motor burns out or you’re trapped under water in an accident. It’s interesting to even unlock some cars with a dead battery. Continue reading »
As system developers, we always love talking shop. In the technology industry there are seemingly endless ways to get things done. Since we work in a general IT shop, we work on many platforms including Windows, OS X, portables, Linux and embedded systems.
The constant challenge is to learn (and remember) all the individual tools you need to develop solutions for each platform. At ICAL we use a product called XOJO to do a lot of our cross platform development. It is one of the few truly cross-platform tool sets. Continue reading »