Gremlin In The Machine

Detecting which Windows Optional Components are installed in a machine

I have been experimenting with programmatic detection of Windows Optional Components installed with...

Author: GremlinInTheMachine Date: 04/28/2010

Upside down writing with Unicode

Last week I was visiting a forum when I came across something strange: an upside down word. The...

Author: GremlinInTheMachine Date: 03/12/2010

Silent for a while

Releases and development cycles have been keeping me silent for a while but I have written a couple...

Author: GremlinInTheMachine Date: 03/09/2010

Katakana English

Today I presented a brief training session on reading Japanese Katakana, using actual screenshots...

Author: GremlinInTheMachine Date: 12/18/2006

MSI, WiX and Unicode

World-readiness in a product tends to be much easier to handle using Unicode than it is with...

Author: GremlinInTheMachine Date: 12/05/2006

Installing Vista RTM and troubleshooting multiple-monitor issues

Today I spent my time between meetings and setting up a machine to run 64-bit Vista (which should...

Author: GremlinInTheMachine Date: 12/04/2006

WiX project structure

A project needs some structure to its files. After looking at some example projects, I decided for...

Author: GremlinInTheMachine Date: 11/30/2006

Choosing which WiX

WiX seems to have a very good balance between "churn" and "release often" (thank you for the replies...

Author: GremlinInTheMachine Date: 11/29/2006

From Installscript to MSI

We are prototyping the installer for our next version. We will be moving from an Installscript-based...

Author: GremlinInTheMachine Date: 11/28/2006