For various reasons I hate InstallShield, and am willing to invest the extra effort in combining Orca with Visual Studio Deployment project to get the results I want.  Recently, I confronted the fact that the serial number validation that is available Read More

My dear friend Bear.  How are you this fine day ?  Is that mud on your snout ? Errrrr. My knowledgable friend, you never learn about some things.  Perhaps the honey you seek so assidously is not for you.  Have you Read More

Bear and Electron - To multithread, or not to multithread Friend Bear, I am not a believer in the benefits of multithreading for the larger body of developers.  I understand that you can do great things with multithreading, but for many Read More

I’m starting a series of dialog posts, right now on the subject of multithreading –  these dialogs take place between two characters, Electron (the protagonist) and the Bear (yours truly).  They’re (loosely) modelled on the Read More