I projected the development of iCash in the late eighties but I actually started coding the software for real in the early nineties. I released the very first version by the end of 1991. At the time, I built it for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and IBM OS/2. I coded the project using the Pascal language. The development of the application continued up to the release of version 2.0 in May 1995. Peggy Première The application wasn’t known as iCash but as ‘Peggy Première’. Peggy because of the Muppet Show character and the analogy with a piggy bank. And ‘Première’ refers …
Month: March 2022
How to download web images sequentially by name
How to download web images sequentially by name? Well, this is very easy to achieve with Web Dumper actually. In fact, you can download entire Websites of the Internet, and save them on your hard drive for later offline browsing. The downloaded web sites are saved on your hard drive with their directory structure intact by default. Indeed, Web Dumper automatically downloads HTML documents along with their embedded pictures, sounds, movies, and so on while it screens them to look for any enclosed links to other documents. But what if you want to download sequences of documents, pictures, or directories? …
Is Maxprog selling user-friendly software?
Is our software user-friendly? What does that mean? I spend a lot of time doing support, mostly helping people to overcome problems using Maxprog software. This task is interesting as it allows us to gauge the usability of our software. Why don’t you take our survey? In software engineering, usability is ‘the degree to which a software can be used by specified consumers to achieve quantified objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction’. Usability goals must address those three components but what about ‘Ease of use’? Ease of use Ease of use is the most talked about and least-understood aspect of …
How to synchronize a website with local files
How to synchronize a website with local files as fast as possible? It turns out that a few days ago I posted a quick update on maxprog site HTML5 upgrade, Updating an old HTML site to HTML5 and CSS3 about how I managed to perform the task quite successfully during the last months. After reading it again today I forgot an important part of the process, file synchronization! How to synchronize a website with local files Each time you touch a file you have to upload it to your web server in order to publish it. Usually, if I modify …