- INSTALL4J WANTS TO MAKE CHANGES INSTALL
- INSTALL4J WANTS TO MAKE CHANGES SOFTWARE
- INSTALL4J WANTS TO MAKE CHANGES CODE
- INSTALL4J WANTS TO MAKE CHANGES FREE
INSTALL4J WANTS TO MAKE CHANGES INSTALL
After a couple of years, we also started to use NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) for our patches, which created much smaller installers (the patch installers just overwrote some files in the application directory versus a full install). I don’t remember why I picked InstallAnywhere, this is about 4 years ago, but that’s the solution I chose. One of our requirements was that the installer we used also install a JVM with the local application. Moving on to today and LandlordMax and skipping several other installation experiences, we initially started with InstallAnywhere. And at that time if you clicked on the back button, it didn’t remember the state you were in, which resulted in some very crazy scripting code.
INSTALL4J WANTS TO MAKE CHANGES CODE
If I remember right (this is a long time ago), every wizard screen had some code behind it in InstallShield’s own proprietary language. Now although I said it simplified it, it wasn’t the end all be all solution by far.
It worked, it definitely simplified the installer process. They eventually moved to InstallShield, which at the time was one of the better solutions (this was many years ago). It’s really a second application for the company. Yes this solution worked, and it had by far the most customization, but it was also the most expensive to maintain and support. The first installer I ever played with was a custom built installer for the company I was working for at the time. Getting back to the discussion, I’ve personally used 4 different installer packages in my career, including 3 with LandlordMax alone (there is some overlap). Before I start to go into details, just to give you a disclaimer, we at LandlordMax now use Install4J which I strongly personally recommend.
INSTALL4J WANTS TO MAKE CHANGES FREE
Not only that, but they also range in price from free to very expensive, as well as in complexity, and what you can do with them. Some of them are great, others not so great.
INSTALL4J WANTS TO MAKE CHANGES SOFTWARE
Therefore, that being said, I strongly suggest you look at a software solution that will build your installer for you. So in other words, not only is it important to do right, you also don’t want to spend too much time on it (it’s used only once) and it’s not your core competency. Not only is it your first impression, but just as importantly it’s not part of your core product. Just look at the size of this review, it doesn’t really talk about the software, it’s all about how horrible the installation process is! So why start with a negative against yourself when there’s no need. Your installer is the first impression people have of your software, and you only get one chance! If it doesn’t work, if it’s hard to do, it will cause a negative perception of your software before they even have a chance to try it! I don’t know how many of you are familiar with Zune, but this software is getting a horrible reputation online because of how difficult it is to install. However the reality is that this is far from true. Most people probably think it’s not that important, as long as it just works and installs your software for you. In any case, as I mentioned above, if you’re interested in getting a sneak peak, you can see a preview of the release notes for LandlordMax version 3.11 here. You always want to release your software when it affects the least amount of people, when you have the least amount of traffic to your website, which is generally late at night when everyone’s sleeping. I suspect it will be tomorrow night in the wee hours of the night. So all this to say, we’re extremely close to releasing LandlordMax version 3.11. To view the Accounting Entries Workarea which includes displaying 30,394 entries (I didn’t apply any filtering) and process the 921 Scheduled Accounting Entries (to see if any Suggested Accounting Entries are due), it took about 4 seconds! And that’s while I was running a video and audio recorder capturing everything going on on my screen!!! Without the recorders, the time significantly drops. 30,394 Accounting Entries (483 pages worth of entries)Īll this was running on my desktop that’s almost three years old now (it runs on a basic P4, 2.4Gz Intel processor).The database I was playing with to create this particular animated tutorial consists of: It’s just as well that we delayed it one day because while I was finishing up creating the last of the Release Notes tonight, I couldn’t come up with a good way to represent some of the very major speed improvements we’ve done in this version. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peak of the release notes (minus one main feature).
We’re almost there, we just found one last very minor bug that I’d like to clean up before we go live (I’m a perfectionist at heart when it comes to LandlordMax). Although we wanted to launch LandlordMax version 3.11 late tonight, I’ve decided to push it back another day.
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