Mark Dane

According to this article Adobe is no longer going to focus on Flash for mobile devices.  It is exciting to see the software community using open standards.   Now if only all the browsers would conform to those standards so developers didn't have to worry about…

Have you ever attempted to use someone else's library in your code only to find yourself jumping through hoops and wondering if it would have just been easier to write it yourself? There are lots of things that can cause this and one in particular…

While working on building an installer I ran into a problem with a compilation error about a missing include file.  While trying to fix that problem I learned several things, one of them was something I would have never guessed about bmake.

I was working on fixing bugs this afternoon.  I started up i-model composer and then tried to attach the Visual Studio 2008 debugger to iMC process only to be greeted with the following message:

Unable to attach to the process.  Check for one of…

Every so often I get an error message from the compiler that stumps me.  After searching online and trying various tweaks I end up writing a simplified test only to find out if something I though was possible really is not possible.  In this case it was…

Being on the  Navigator team for two years might make you think that I would know all there is to know about Navigator, but I learned a few new things at the Navigator sessions I attended during BE Together 2011.  Even I was surprised!

The first was how…

I had recently had a discussion with some colleagues about using the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture to allow the UI portions to be reused across different applications with different business logic.  I decided that I would implement MVC with…

Managed C++ brings together the worst of two worlds: the explicit resource management of native C++ and the non deterministic nature of garbage collection. Programmers have to be aware of these two different resource management strategies and know how…

Last night I had my first formal professional development activity after working at Bentley for over two years:  a class about blogging. I signed up for this course because, for the second year in a row, I had a lack of formal professional development activites…