Month: May 2018

  • Book Review: WiX 3.6: A Developer’s Guide to Windows Installer XML by Nick Ramirez

    Book Review: WiX 3.6: A Developer’s Guide to Windows Installer XML by Nick Ramirez

    This book was instrumental in me managing to package Dashman. It had pretty much everything I needed and most if not everything I learned from the book worked with the latest WiX 3.X. One issue that I have with most WiX information out there is that it assumes you are working in a .Net language…

  • I had to stop watching Lost in Space

    I had to stop watching Lost in Space

    I’m referring to the new series, the Netflix one. I’ve never really watched the old one but I’ve seen enough clips to know: “Danger Will Robinson”. There are several reasons why I stopped watching even though I’m starving for non-pessimistic future space science fiction. The first one is that I don’t enjoy seeing people make…

  • Implementing Windows’ Restart Manager in Java

    Implementing Windows’ Restart Manager in Java

    Disclaimer: I don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ve done little Win API (Win32) development and I only have a few years of Java development of which maybe 2 or 3 are developing desktop applications with JavaFX (Dashman being my first fully fledged out JavaFX app). Disclaimer 2: I have only tested this on my…