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28 January 2008 0 Comments

WMA Progress: The UI

It’s very hard to come up with a good User Interface for an application. There’s a lot of factors to be considered: feature set, screen real-estate, ‘flashiness’, and most importantly, target audience.Complexity in the UI causes complexity in the code – a checkbox here means disabling a button there. Options set in the app configuration [...]

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15 January 2008 2 Comments

WMA Update

Woops. Been busy for a bit, so ermm, belated Happy Christmas and New Year :S Just a quick update on the Workstation Migration Assistant. My company have decided that since I did the majority of the work on this software outside of work, that I own the software and am entitled to release it as [...]

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22 November 2007 27 Comments

A quick look at: Workstation Migration Assistant

During my company’s Windows 2000 > XP migration, I spent a long time developing a tool to automate the backup/restore of user data, so that our deployment team could literally click a button and have everything done for them (it could’ve been an entirely zero-touch system, but we just didn’t have the time to test [...]

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