Tuesday, May 13, 2014

CLR and Mono Runtime difference - System.Diagnostics.DefaultTraceListener.AssertUiEnabled

›
This one to some is a very contentious issue and is present in the Mono runtime 2.10.8.1 running in Mint-15. While this property is not we...

CLR and Mono Runtime difference - XmlSerializer for read-only auto-property

›
This is one of a number of posts to highlight runtime difference between Mono and CLR/.Net. It is not a criticism of the good works of the M...
Monday, March 3, 2014

When technology is abused or misused, government has a right to step in.

›
It is good to see a government in Shanghai stepped in to ban the taxi driver from receiving bookings from smartphone apps during certain pe...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Software is not created to serve human. A banking example.

›
This is a rather provocative title for a purpose. Recently I read a very good article from ACM Communication titled "Center Wheel for S...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Buggy CBA NetBank Term Deposit Management facility

›
In the CBA Internet Banking Service , one could supposedly manage one's term deposit investment online. However, the following two examp...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Worthy Pdf readers in Linix Mint/Ubuntu

›
There are plenty of questions on the Internet asking whether there are any PDF Readers (free of course) for Linux that have more capability ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Common reasons in software system failure

›
A post by Charette in IEEE Spectrum on the failure of various government systems sums up pretty much the general reasons why they fail: ...