I don’t know how many times I have heard this phrase: “It’s always harder than it seems”. And you know what. It almost always true (at least in regards to development). When we’re working on a new feature, it seems… Continue reading ‘It’s always harder than it seems’ →

Woohoo, after like 2 months of hard work, the WiX Burn installer (which I talked about in the previous post) is finally launched on our website at www.inflowinventory.com/Download, as well as www.download.com! Check out the installer to get a taste… Continue reading ‘Burn Installer Officially Launched!’ →

So about a month and a half ago, I was driving home from work one day after working on some NSIS installer code (which in my humble opinion is very ugly and hard to work with), when I had the… Continue reading ‘A better installer’ →

Our company is named Archon Systems so it should be no surprise that some of us love Starcraft. I’ll be heading down to the Anaheim for Blizzcon this year. If you see someone with the “Archon Systems” t-shirt (as shown… Continue reading ‘Blizzcon 2011’ →

So the other day I was going through some old C# code and encountered a giant wall of text in a function. What I mean is that I saw a giant switch-case statement that must have spanned a couple pages… Continue reading ‘Ugly case statements’ →