Modern software design

EIDNative - the Belgian eID card access library version 3.0 is available for download. Now it supports x64 and x32 Windows and can be used from Windows XP to Windows 8. This is the last release of the EIDNative library and it will be not updated in the future, because I made the new more advanced and powerful library for reading electronic id cards and the new library will replace EIDNative. The new version of this blog is available on  https://perevoznyk.wordpress.com

By 2014, refusing to communicate with customers via social channels will be as harmful as ignoring emails or phone calls today.

One of the principles of Agile development is to make a regular releases of the product: "Release your software to your end customers as often as you can without inconveniencing them."  Why is it necessary? The regular project releases would help to produce revenue earlier. Except when the product is not ready, full of bugs and new features which are not welcome y consumers (remember the "Start" button in Windows 8 story?).  For mobile apps development this principle is even more important. When user searches for the application in the app store and see thousands of apps with similar functionality and even similar icons, the release date and the update frequency can be the final factor.  If application was not updated during last 6 months, it can be just an abandoned application - the user thinks and he will give the favor to another one, released just few days ago.  Thus, make updates regularly, do not disappoint your users!

Krento received new award from  http://www.programosy.pl site. You can download the latest version of Krento directly from this site:  http://www.programosy.pl/program,krento.html .

The version 2.0 of Quricol - the open source freeware QR code generator library is available for download.  Download :  https://github.com/perevoznyk/quricol Based on qrencode library version 3.4.2 Added Visual Studio project file and external libraries for easy rebuild of quricol.dll. This was asked by  Carlos Gutierrez Added possibility to specify the background and foreground colors of the image Removed reference to qrencode.h from quricol.h header file. Now you have to include only one header file to your C++ project Updated Delphi library, included new demo project Compatible with Ansi and Unicode Delphi versions Can be used with 32 and 64 bit Delphi projects Updated Delphi documentation

The time has come for KRENTO to be released as open source .You can find the source code on Google Code site: https://code.google.com/p/krento After 4 years of hard work I understood that I can't continue the development of such a big project alone. I hope that other developers will show the interest of giving the boost to this project. More information about Krento project is available on http://users.telenet.be/serhiy.perevoznyk/krento.html

From the beginning Krento was designed to be a combination of Widget Engine and Application Launcher.  Later, the Application Launcher functionality received a higher priority and the Widget Engine development was frozen. Before Krento a few interesting and powerful widget engine alternatives existed but unfortunately the best of them have now been abandoned by developers. On 14 September 2011 Google discontinued the Google Desktop, it is no longer available for download and existing installations are not updated to include new features or fixes. Another popular application Yahoo! Desktop Widgets discontinued on April 11, 2012 and Yahoo Desktop Widgets can no longer be downloaded. While Microsoft is concentrated on the new Metro interface of Windows 8, the situation with Microsoft Windows Sidebar is unclear and finally my favourite application, Kapsules, has not been updated for more than 3 years. For this reason from version 3.1 of Krento the Widget Engine received a second life and i

Starting from version 3.1 Krento supports docklets. Krento Docklets are mini applications similar to Krento Toys with a variety of possible uses. They can connect to web services to deliver business data, weather information, news updates, traffic maps, Internet radio streams, and even slide shows of online photo albums. Docklets can also integrate with other programs to provide streamlined interaction. Krento comes with a set of docklets to get you started, and you can also develop your docklets to extend the Krento functionality using Embarcardero Delphi or Microsoft Visual C++ compilers. The Krento Docklets SDK is available for download: http://users.telenet.be/serhiy.perevoznyk/download/KrentoDockletsSDK.zip Docklets SDK documentation: 1. PDF http://users.telenet.be/serhiy.perevoznyk/download/Krento%20Docklets%20SDK.pdf 2. CHM http://users.telenet.be/serhiy.perevoznyk/download/Krento%20Docklets%20SDK.chm

I am pleased to announce the new version of Krento. After almost one year of development the Krento 3.0 is available for download. As always it's free and without any built-in ads . You can download it from http://users.telenet.be/serhiy.perevoznyk/krento.html At the moment Krento 3.0 is already translated to the following languages:   * English * Dutch * French * Russian * Japanese

Krento 2.1.1098.25 is available for download. I officially confirm that this is the last available release of Krento 2. The work on Krento 3.0 is almost finished and I do not plan to update Krento 2.1 anymore

The new release of Quricol - the open source freeware QR code generator library is available for download. In this release I added the possibility for developers to choose the error correction level by themselves. Download : http://users.telenet.be/ws36637/download/quricol.zip 

Valerij Romanovskij translated Smir to Russian. The translation is included in the archive. Smir is a freeware tools for backup and restore Windows desktop icons positions. The application is portable, no setup needed. The information is stored to the text file without accessing the Windows registry. Download Smir : http://users.telenet.be/ws36637/download/smir.zip  If you like this tool, please help me by link back to this site on your blog or your friend site.

eidreader library v.2.7 is available for download: http://users.telenet.be/ws36637/download/eidreader.2.7.zip In this release solved the problem with reading the photo from the eID card and other small bugs discovered in the previous version.

The new version of Quricol library is available for download. Download :  https://github.com/perevoznyk/quricol Update from 07.05.2012 The error correction level is changed to high.

James Rimell made a new skin for Krento "Blocks" You can download it from here: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=b4508367face85d1&resid=B4508367FACE85D1!218&parid=B4508367FACE85D1!134&authkey=!AAh94mzQEjdgBbQ

The new release of EIDReader.dll 2.6 x32 and x64 is available for download. This new version is compatible with the EID Native library source code and fixed some problems discovered in the version 2.5 This is also the first release which included 64 bit version of the EIDReader.dll Update from 07.05.2012 http://users.telenet.be/ws36637/download/eidreader.2.7.zip

Krento 2.1.672.13 released and available for download from http://users.telenet.be/serhiy.perevoznyk/krento.html Reduced CPU usage during the circle rotation Added compatibility with Narrator for partially sighted people Fixed bug with the drawing of the complex skins Implemented smooth kinematic turning of the circle Central button shows now the list of the available rings for fast ring selection Windows + Z shows the ring selection even when Krento is not visible Added configuration parameter for the default number of the empty stones when creating the new circle. You can select the appropriate number or set it to 0 if you want to create an ampty circles always Added parameter to specify the name of the default circle (like the home page of the browser).  The home button can be used to navigate to the default circle The ico files can be used for stones images