Dan Cunningham

After some very positive feedback regarding 1.0 RC1, I’ve been working hard on the next build. There’s been some massive internal changes around threading that should make the application much more responsive, and free up more CPU cycles for ScanState / LoadState itself so performance will hopefully be improved across the board. This has introduced [...]

Heh, so it’s all taken a little bit longer than I would have liked, but I think I’m finally in a position to let people start playing with the Workstation Migration Assistant. There’s probably a whole heap of bugs that I haven’t found yet, and this is where I’d appreciate some assistance. I don’t have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]