It's good, but maybe it's a tad too optimistic for 2021 :-D

hmmm. Let Me Google That[^]

I built my own JSON based UI manager that can handle all my UI elements plus wrap any other control, and then built a graphical form designer for it. Form editor allows me to draw and then drop back to JSON when I need to. Problem solved. It’s a dream to use :)

Totally agree with this. Tried Powershell, hated it. I'm old enough to remember when the whole point of an IDE was to assist in moving away from arcane command line tools so that the developer could focus on the application being developed. My personal theory is that universities teach using *nix command line tools, so graduates only know those tools. But many of those tools date back to the 1980s (or earlier) and back in the 90s we would have thought that they were hopelessly outdated. We'd moved past that, or so I thought. It's like the younger developers don't even realise how much easier everything could be...

To quote from the article: "Who is Ubuntu Web for? This is a tricky question to answer". There's the reason Linux hasn't taken over the desktop right there. I rest my case.

Amen.

Tried it on the iPad for a laugh - and it worked! :omg: (Hint: to get the onscreen keyboard you have to tap in the text edit box to the right of the virtual PC screen).

A guy who's not too young and could bring some dark humor to the role... Dylan Moran would be awesome (If you've ever seen Black Books you know it would work :cool: ).

Totally agree - I am really going to want to be able to change those ASAP X|

Have you tried profiling to code to see why it's too slow? I recommend looking at the DevPartner Profiler from here[^]

I'd look at using something like shared memory - you can then use the argc/argv parameters to pass an address or token to access it. Named Pipes would also be a good solution I think. There are plenty of cross-platform implementations for this... ...unless you're passing information between Windows and Linux in separate processes. Then you will probably either have to create a file. If you wanted to go to a little more trouble maybe using TCP sockets would work?

Isn't it better to think of testing as an integral part of the development process, and not separate from it? I think too many "developers" treat testing as a separate process to development when in fact testing *is* part of development! I prefer to code to a specification and then use testing to confirm the result. If a test fails then I cycle back to the code and repeat until all tests pass.... ...then I wait for the customer's user acceptance testing to tell me what I missed! :doh: