Gremlin In The Machine
Detecting which Windows Optional Components are installed in a machine
I have been experimenting with programmatic detection of Windows Optional Components installed with...
Date: 04/28/2010
Upside down writing with Unicode
Last week I was visiting a forum when I came across something strange: an upside down word. The...
Date: 03/12/2010
Silent for a while
Releases and development cycles have been keeping me silent for a while but I have written a couple...
Date: 03/09/2010
Katakana English
Today I presented a brief training session on reading Japanese Katakana, using actual screenshots...
Date: 12/18/2006
MSI, WiX and Unicode
World-readiness in a product tends to be much easier to handle using Unicode than it is with...
Date: 12/05/2006
Installing Vista RTM and troubleshooting multiple-monitor issues
Today I spent my time between meetings and setting up a machine to run 64-bit Vista (which should...
Date: 12/04/2006
WiX project structure
A project needs some structure to its files. After looking at some example projects, I decided for...
Date: 11/30/2006
Choosing which WiX
WiX seems to have a very good balance between "churn" and "release often" (thank you for the replies...
Date: 11/29/2006
From Installscript to MSI
We are prototyping the installer for our next version. We will be moving from an Installscript-based...
Date: 11/28/2006