There are still 14 items on the list which prevent 6.0 from running out of the door. Therefore I wish I could fix them all during the Chinese New Year holidays. Stay tuned.
Migration to DockPanel
I have been maintaining a Windows Forms application (Project E) for about 10 months since last April. The user interface was very complex because the original creator left so many lines of code ins...
Product Review: DockPanel Suite
Weifen Luo creates this free and open source DockPanel Suite. With it, it is possible to develop flexible user interface like Visual Studio .NET. Today I finally got a chance to test this suite a...
Will Virtualization Save Your Soul?
Viruses can damage enterprise network. Even if they are not that harmful, one or two workstations may be damaged. Unluckily, my workstation broke down last week. Both Internet Explorer and Registry...
GrapeVine Voice: JCF Author Responded
This morning I received a mail from Anthony, JCF’s author. Because he is so busy, a final reply is going to reach me maybe next week. And if you know Chinese culture, next Wednesday is Chinese New ...
Go Big or Go Home?
I joined BEAWorld 2007 Shanghai last December. Before that event, Oracle had already offered to buy BEA. And in January, BEA finally became an Oracle company. On the same day, SUN acquired MySQL. A...
GrapeVine Voice: Chinese New Year Present
I was planning to release 6.0 Final as a X’mas present. And then I delayed it as a new year present. However, even now I am not sure whether I can be on time to deliver it as a Chinese new year pre...
Building HTML Help on Windows
Microsoft released two versions of HTML help in order to replace its popular WinHelp format. And it seems Microsoft is so confident with these two new formats that it removes WinHelp support from W...