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My “real developer” presentation at the East Bay WordPress Meetup

June 16, 2013 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
A real developer

I’m pleased to announced that I’ve recently acquired the domain for arealdeveloper.com. Details on its content and my future plans for that domain will be revealed later. Possibly quite a bit later. I’ve always thought it was a great domain name so you have no idea how happy I am that I’ve now got it. Most of you KNOW that I am NOT a “web developer”. I am, however, setting up a large scale SaaS project that happens to be web-based (what a surprise!). I frequently encounter people who say they are web developers and yet have never heard of basic things like XDebug, Profiling with XHProf, SASS, LESS, versioning, virtualization and local development servers, etc. So what happens when “arealdeveloper” enters the world of web development? You start looking for the right tools, buying the right hardware and software, invest some time in learning how to make best use of them, and before you know it you’re doing a presentation at the Easy Bay WordPress Meetup in Oakland, CA about developer tools. You can download the 69 slide presentation here.

Filed Under: Apple Software, Rant, Software Development, The Web, Windows Software Tagged With: Development, Easy Bay, PHP, Presentation, Slides, Tools, Web, WordPress

Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) for Mac/OSX? Not quite!

March 6, 2012 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) by Stefan Didak

Unfortunately, no, I am not presenting you with a free version of Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) for Mac/OSX here. But I will provide you with something that has worked for me along similar lines and was hacked up in a few hours of using AppleScript. I hope it works for you as well as it works for me, if not, blame it on my total inexperience with AppleScript. In fact, I have never touched AppleScript until the other day when I hacked together my first few lines of code and then did the “google programmer” thing by basically solving every little step along the way by looking it up online in a quick and dirty way. But heck, who cares, it worked and I really have no ambition to learn AppleScript. I very much dislike its syntax. As a real software developer it makes my toes curl. Now, back to the AppleScript thingie I hacked up to provide myself the much missing WiLMa basic functionality that I have sorely missed on Snow Leopard and Lion, and every other Apple Mac OSX incarnation.

Filed Under: Apple Software, Software, WiLMa Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, Free, Freeware, Layout, Mac, Manager, OSX, Software, WiLMa

Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) Version 1.1.0.0 Available

July 12, 2010 by Stefan Didak 36 Comments
Windows Layout Manager 1.1.0.0 Update

For those of you who are using my Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) and who have asked for command line support will hopefully be happy to learn that version 1.1.0.0 has the ability to apply a layout by using the Windows Layout Manager via the command line and in batch files. There have also been a few minor bugfixes and some changes to the documentation. Nothing too earth shattering, really, but the command line support was really high on the list of requests.

Filed Under: Software, WiLMa, Windows Software Tagged With: .NET, Free, Freeware, Layout, Manager, Software, Updates, WiLMa, Windows

Autodesk Acquires Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM from 3AM Solutions

January 5, 2010 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
3am Solutions Dynamite VSP 4.0

SAN RAFAEL, California, Jan 5, 2010 – Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced that it has completed the acquisition of Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM visualization software products and related assets. The products were purchased from 3AM Solutions, a UK-based privately owned technology company that develops visualization software for civil infrastructure. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Filed Under: Personal, Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Autodesk, Civil, Civil 3D, Dynamite, Engineering, Graphics, Press Release, Product, Software, Visualization

Rebuilding all or all out of date Corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D 2010

November 12, 2009 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D

If you’ve ever needed to frequently rebuild multiple corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D because they are out of date but don’t want to go hit the rebuild menu item for each single corridor then here’s the solution. The following microscopic addon/plugin for Civil 3D 2010 allows you to rebuild all corridors or rebuild all out of date corridors, at once. Unzip the DLL to a location of your choice and you can use netload and load the Civil.RBC.dll (or if you want the functions available, hook it up in the acad2010.lsp file like this…

Filed Under: Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Addon, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Civil, Civil 3D, Engineering, Free, Freeware, Plugin, Software Development

MaxiVista version 4, revitalising multi-monitor heaven!

September 21, 2009 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
MaxiVista

As many of you already know, I’m a big fan of MaxiVista and that it’s a product that has proven to be essential to my home office setup. I’ve written about this wonderful application before and you can expect some more about it in the next weeks. Since most of the office is getting an overhaul (just operating systems, a few new systems, but not a complete overhaul in layout) I will be putting the new version of MaxiVista through some heavy usage. There are many crucial aspects to the new version 4, the biggest of which is no doubt the full support for 64-bit (the virtual display drivers installed by MaxiVista 4 are digitally signed) and WDDM graphics cards.

Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: MaxiVista, Microsoft, Monitors, Multi-Monitor, Network, Screens, Software, Windows

StarWind Server: SAN Made Simple

September 11, 2009 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
StarWind iSCSI Storage Virtualization

I have very little need for a SAN (Storage Area Network), because every single system is already loaded up with many terabytes of fast RAID storage. A SAN, regardless of the size, speed, and cost, would always be slower than the local storage of each system. However, if I wanted to centralize the storage for the systems in the network, whereby the systems themselves were smaller, less top-heavy computers, I would certainly be looking at something like StarWind Server or StarWind Enterprise Server (probably the latter because I like the replication features).

Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: iSCSI, RAID, Review, SAN, Servers, Software, StarWind, Storage, Virtualization, Visualization, Windows

Windows 7, booting from VHD, converting between VHD and VMDK

September 9, 2009 by Stefan Didak 3 Comments
Harddisk

Virtual Machines are great. I rely on them for my work every day and most of my home office network depends on several Virtual Machines (VM’s) for the core infrastructure (SMTP, DNS, AD, backup management, centralized automation, build farms, continuous integration, etc.) but sometimes you just want the abstraction and ease of use of a Virtual Machine while having full support of the host’s hardware (graphics cards, drivers, etc.) and often you don’t want to mess around with the, often complex or entangled, multi-boot scenarios. If you’re in need of that, Windows 7 (and 2008 Server R2) and their native support for Virtual Harddisks (VHD’s) will come in extremely handy. Especially now that you can install and boot your system from a VHD, directly. The following is a bit of a quick start to using VHD’s, some additional details on how I’ve been using them, and a quick look at Starwind’s free V2V conversion application.

Filed Under: Lengthy, Software, Windows Software Tagged With: Booting, OS, StarWind, Storage, VHD, Virtualization, VMDK, Windows

Bye Bye Synergy, Hello Input Director!

September 8, 2009 by Stefan Didak 17 Comments
Stefan Didak Home Office Version 6

There are numerous websites and blogs out there that highlight Synergy while linking to my site and the pictures of my home office as an example. I am happy that I’ve been able to point out this incredibly useful software keyboard/mouse switch but the time has come to start pointing out the utility that is eclipsing Synergy and that tool is called Input Director. Development of Synergy has been on a long hiatus since April 2006 and there’s no sign of a new version. Combined with my experiences where Synergy randomly stops working when a Windows 7 slave system is part of the configuration has led me to give Input Director a try.

Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: Experience, Free, Freeware, Input Director, KVM, Multi-Monitor, Review, Software, Synergy, Windows

Windows Layout Manager 1.0 (WiLMa) Officially Released

August 25, 2009 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) by Stefan Didak

The Windows Layout Manager I mentioned on my blog and subsequently described in more detail has been officially released. Quite a few people have already been using it for the past months and while I planned to give it a proper download location on a new site I’ve been working on I’m putting it on this site instead. The domain of that new site is still physically linked to a server that makes it a lengthy process for me to move the domain and because I don’t think I will have the time to dedicate to that I figured why not just host the download on my own site. You can download it from the bottom of this page. There is some basic documentation included in the download but if you wish to check the docs prior to downloading you can check the Windows Layout Manager online documentation.

Filed Under: Software, WiLMa, Windows Software Tagged With: .NET, Free, Freeware, Layout, Manager, Multi-Mo, WiLMa, Windows
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