Well, there are easier options. Just take a plane for example. There ise a direct flight from London to Tallinn and in just a couple of hours you can enjoy our fancy movie ticket system:)
In Tallinn Estonia we have quite similar system working already for some time now. No cellphones used though but the ticket admission over internet is possible. After paying, you will be presented with ticket on your web browser, which you just have to print out and take it to the movie theater, where the barcode reader is used to validate the ticket. There is a big warning though, that the first person with given barcode will get to the theater and all other attempts to enter will fail, so keep your ticket secret. Anyway, it works quite nicely (at least I have managed to get to see all the movies where I've bought the ticket over the internet:) ) The main benefit is no waiting in the lines. Actually they should sell the web tickets bit cheaper as there is no paper expenses for the theater, but they just make bigger profit by keeping the prices the same.
While.NET is easier to use, I don't like the idea of losing considerable amount of already limited resources to the wild forest of.NET framework. Therefore I better explain to the client that one pays more but gets fast application implemented in pure WIN32 API. So far I've been lucky to have clients who prefer speed to shorter development time.
While offtopic (related to the article) the VS.NET has a big downside: the designer. It had messed up my custom layout code more than once and since then I avoid using it. I know myself how to arrange GUI components so that they look decent on the screen. The sequence of component addings to the container is sometimes very crucial but VS still does it the way it wants and totally messes things up. The worst thing I have seen was that the designer view just loses the code (!!!) in the InitializeComponent method and I had to rewrite the GUI layout logic again. These things were very annoying until I made the decision do not touch the designer view. Other than that, the.NET is quite nice compromise between low level C and java: development speed is faster that with C and the resulting program runs faster than Java (I mean the GUI apps with SWING, AWT and SWT toolkits).
Or do you mean, that if it's not opensource, it is not free? Who needs the source if the tool just works. Actually the free give away of the EVC is a part of clever Microsoft strategy to rule the mobile world. As it seams they are quite successful on that.
Anyway thanks for modders to take the typos with nice sence of humor. They are worth the Funny flag:)
I don't know about you guys but I have developed quite many applications to Microsoft Windows Mobile Smartphone platform and also used the phone quite a lot and it is STABLE and fast. Nothing to cpmlaoin about. The windows that is in the device is huge improvement over their desktop version. As the Embedded Visual C++ is totally free of charge, then it is absolutely logical to develop the program to the smartphone platform. The effect works also oin the other direction: as developers coose smartphone platform, then there are lots of programs available and therefore customers prefer those phones as well. Add to the picture the fact that Microsoft will make the single operating system release for both PDA and Smartphone (Windows Mobile 5.0), the user gets familiar interface and also does developer. By releasing the EVC for free, microsoft basically killed the competition. There is no point to develop to Symbian as the API is totally different and same is with Linux. Smartwhone with timetested Win32 API rules the mobile world, like it or not. I as a developer have experience and I like it. The Windows Mobile is another masterpiece from microsoft, far from what they provide to the desktop.
Yup, had the same situation recently after buying a new mobo with fancy SATA subsystem. There was a floppy in the box and I still had the drive, how convenient.
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Well, there are easier options. Just take a plane for example. There ise a direct flight from London to Tallinn and in just a couple of hours you can enjoy our fancy movie ticket system :)
In Tallinn Estonia we have quite similar system working already for some time now. No cellphones used though but the ticket admission over internet is possible. After paying, you will be presented with ticket on your web browser, which you just have to print out and take it to the movie theater, where the barcode reader is used to validate the ticket. There is a big warning though, that the first person with given barcode will get to the theater and all other attempts to enter will fail, so keep your ticket secret. Anyway, it works quite nicely (at least I have managed to get to see all the movies where I've bought the ticket over the internet :) ) The main benefit is no waiting in the lines. Actually they should sell the web tickets bit cheaper as there is no paper expenses for the theater, but they just make bigger profit by keeping the prices the same.
While .NET is easier to use, I don't like the idea of losing considerable amount of already limited resources to the wild forest of .NET framework. Therefore I better explain to the client that one pays more but gets fast application implemented in pure WIN32 API. So far I've been lucky to have clients who prefer speed to shorter development time.
While offtopic (related to the article) the VS .NET has a big downside: the designer. It had messed up my custom layout code more than once and since then I avoid using it. I know myself how to arrange GUI components so that they look decent on the screen. The sequence of component addings to the container is sometimes very crucial but VS still does it the way it wants and totally messes things up. The worst thing I have seen was that the designer view just loses the code (!!!) in the InitializeComponent method and I had to rewrite the GUI layout logic again. These things were very annoying until I made the decision do not touch the designer view. Other than that, the .NET is quite nice compromise between low level C and java: development speed is faster that with C and the resulting program runs faster than Java (I mean the GUI apps with SWING, AWT and SWT toolkits).
I have got the the EVC free for now.
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Or do you mean, that if it's not opensource, it is not free? Who needs the source if the tool just works. Actually the free give away of the EVC is a part of clever Microsoft strategy to rule the mobile world. As it seams they are quite successful on that.
Anyway thanks for modders to take the typos with nice sence of humor. They are worth the Funny flag
I don't know about you guys but I have developed quite many applications to Microsoft Windows Mobile Smartphone platform and also used the phone quite a lot and it is STABLE and fast. Nothing to cpmlaoin about. The windows that is in the device is huge improvement over their desktop version. As the Embedded Visual C++ is totally free of charge, then it is absolutely logical to develop the program to the smartphone platform. The effect works also oin the other direction: as developers coose smartphone platform, then there are lots of programs available and therefore customers prefer those phones as well. Add to the picture the fact that Microsoft will make the single operating system release for both PDA and Smartphone (Windows Mobile 5.0), the user gets familiar interface and also does developer. By releasing the EVC for free, microsoft basically killed the competition. There is no point to develop to Symbian as the API is totally different and same is with Linux. Smartwhone with timetested Win32 API rules the mobile world, like it or not. I as a developer have experience and I like it. The Windows Mobile is another masterpiece from microsoft, far from what they provide to the desktop.
Yup, had the same situation recently after buying a new mobo with fancy SATA subsystem. There was a floppy in the box and I still had the drive, how convenient.