Marketing Boy
Feb 17th, 2004 by Nate
I see one of my vendors has decided to use me as a pawn in their marketing juggernaut.
I’m glad, these guys make really good components. Their streaming compression library kicks total butt, I used it to pack data that gets transferred from a point-of-service device to a master device, and I get consistent compression (94% or better) in a ridiculously short timeframe. Reduced a 20 minute data upload down to 90 seconds.
Haven’t tried their .NET stuff yet, but from all accounts it looks like good stuff.
The Windows world is so strange. You have to buy components to do this stuff? Java has crypto and compression built in. So do Perl and PHP, or any good version of Unix.
Unfortunately, yes. Windows does come with a library that does cryptography stuff for example, but it is HORRIBLY unreliable, and works different (or not at all) depending on the idiot operating system you are running. Most things “activeX” you need to get 3rd party stuff to do anything real, or you need to pull down your pants and figure out how to do it with API calls, which is completely impossible for anyone who has to work on a deadline. With .NET, it looks like you have everything you need, but who knows if any of it works worth a damn.
Yeah the windows world is a complete clusterfuck. Nothing makes any sense.