Archive for January, 2008

The Relationship between Memory Size and Performance

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

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 [...]

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UI Development (3)

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

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 [...]

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UI Development (2)

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

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 [...]

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UI Development (1)

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

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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