One of the things I am most ashamed of on Quivi is its speed when opening large images (which are not uncommon nowadays, specially with digital photos). It’s embarrassing that the lame Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is lightning fast when opening those images! I’ve always wondered how the Viewer did that. I’ve searched about [...]
I’ve just released the Linux version of Quivi: Quivi is an image viewer (specialized for comic/manga reading) for Windows which supports many file formats and compressed (zip, rar) files. It is aimed for fast & easy file browsing with keyboard or mouse. It was working on Linux for a while, but now it’s “official”. I’ve [...]
I’ve just released the new version of my image viewer and manga / comic reader, Quivi (only for Windows right now, but it will be ported to Linux and maybe to Mac). I’ve rewritten it from scratch, check my last post for more info. The new features added were: Prefetching of the next image Wallpaper [...]
Joel Spolsky, popular software engineering, said in this blog: (…) They [Netscape] did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. I agree, mostly. Many projects market that they’ve been “rewritten from scratch” as if it was something marvelous, and most [...]