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Development Keep your software packages small

It wasn’t until 2004 that I got broadband internet at home. So I remember the times when downloading a new JDK (which was around 20 MB at the time) over my 56K modem line meant blocking my family’s phone line for 2 hours. Today, bandwidth doesn’t seem like a limiting factor anymore. But that doesn’t mean that download sizes for applications don’t matter. Continue »

Security Using registry-based group policies in applications

Group policies let you control and tweak thousands of Windows settings. But group policies aren’t limited to Windows or Microsoft applications. We can also use group policies to manage custom applications, either by registering a group policy extension for the app, or (more commonly) by using registry-based policies. Continue »

Development Tracking GitHub downloads using Google Sheets

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If you use GitHub releases to host download packages, then you’re probably interested in how often these packages are being downloaded. You’d expect that the GitHub website provided that information, but that’s not the case. Continue »