One can easily spot an application’s memory usage in Windows using Task Manager. However, the numbers shown are often misintepreted and a frustration source of mine when I am bugged by some “professionals” with perfect misunderstandings.
Memory usage has a formal name called “working set size”. A working set is the physical memory allocated by Windows [...]
For enterprise applications, web-based architecture has great potential and advantages, especially in deployment and patching. For web-based applications, IT people no longer need to install computer by computer (theorectically), and having fewer applications installed on a PC implies stabler system. Web-based applications may also lower the hardware requirements for client-side PCs because most tasks are performed [...]
For the sake of memory leak, I couldn’t tell the exact time but it should be around VB 5.0 timeframe, there was a “new trend” in UI development, the HTML. Desktop applications embedded HTML engine to render their UI. The reasons that I could remember were:
It feels cool!
It’s much easier to deal with i18n problems with HTML.
The look-and-feel [...]
In the good old days, the definition of a witty computer power user was that he/she knew something about GW-BASIC (or dBASE III, Lotus 1-2-3, you name it). All screens were 80 by 25 green text console and there were little requirements for UI. It was a paradise for UI programmers! Users were forced to learn all the [...]
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