Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

MariaDB, is the MySQL forked database Server that uses the Maria storage engine as the default transactional and non-transactional storage engine. The Maria storage engine is no longer called “Maria” but is now called “Aria”. Any future versions of MariaDB will now ship with the default storage engine named “Aria”.

Sobbayi’s Thoughts on The Nokia Qt SDK

Nokia Qt SDKI cant say I have yet released any production quality projects using the Nokia Qt SDK just yet; however I have been getting my hands dirty with the Nokia Qt SDK for the past couple of week or more. From what I can see the Nokia Qt SDK is quite a piece of work. Here is what it has to offer.

PHPNow and again I wonder why PHP is never or rather, why it is rarely used for developing desktop applications. I may not be the only one who wonders the same thing so I decided to delve deeper into this so that I can settle my mind and here is what I have come up with.

And the winners are…

With about 64 add-ons submitted to the Extend Firefox 3.5 competition and judging underway and done with, Mozilla couldn’t be any happier. It is also well noted that 40 of these add-ons where brand new. The winners were announced as follows: Under the best new add-ons we had Chris Finke with FireFound basically an add-on [...]

Over the past two years, I have been spending endless sleepless nights fine-tuning two of our Browser Based Application and Web Site Development Engines. Our Engines code-named Trinity+++ and Mozqeeto have finally come of age. A lot of features put into these Engines are based on past experience gathered from developing web sites and other [...]

SI releases Numcrunch X05

The new Numcrunch Calculator code named Numcrunch X05 is finally ready for download. There was a major delay in getting this utility online. As you go to the downloads page you will notice that this calculator has some functions missing. This was a deliberate twist on our side as I felt that it would be [...]

Mutant to carry Numcrunch on into the future One of our miniature projects, Numcrunch, a Windows based arithmetic calculator has been a household name in the corridors of SI for a pretty long while now. It was originally coded in November 2002 and Bug fixed two months later in January 2003. This is a utility [...]

Bug Fix – Updates Subscription Module.

Hello again, our development team has been hard at work on various projects. Projects mainly geared towards improving services on SI as well as improving the security and performance of our services and products. Ok we encountered a bug in the Subscriptions language module. However, this was not a critical bug. It only affected the [...]

Wall Mapper 1.2 is released.

Version 1.2 of Wall Mapper the desktop wallpaper management tool has been released. Unfortunately version one was never rolled out. Just before the release I decided to hold back and sort out a nasty bug that lay out of sight and within the application. This program had a bug that caused the desktop to flicker [...]

NumCrunch is back in the lab.

The NumCrunch calculator project has been revived against earlier plans. This is just a little something – something that I had sitting in one of our computers. At first I thought it worthless but again realized that it could probably help somebody out there. After a little bit of clean up and bug removal I [...]

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