Zach Saw's Website

I am a software developer based in Melbourne, Australia who has intimate knowledge of Win32 and have been working with component based design patterns way before Anders Hejlsberg joined Microsoft in 1996. Coming from a Borland Delphi / C++ Builder background, C# (and its .NET framework) seem like a complete port of Delphi (and VCL) into MSIL. Heck, certain parts of the designer even have the same properties, methods and names. With so many Borland developers poached by Microsoft near the end of last century, this was to be expected. This was to my delight, of course - as I did not have to relearn most of the things - I simply grew with the team.

I've created this website to serve as some sort of a blog for my daily encounters being a software developer and also a place for other developers to download / purchase software I've written - particularly Microsoft Visual Studio Packages, .NET controls and components.

Blogging my encounters and voicing out my rants and offering some workarounds / solutions (if I find one) will hopefully save my fellow software developers some precious time when they face the same problem.

Check out my blogs here.

Use the links at the right of this page to go to the page of your interest.


News

2 February 2010

New version of SupTitle v1.0.9 has been released.

9 November 2009

Pilot version of LANBench has been released. LANBench is a simple LAN / TCP network performance benchmark utility that is capable of testing performance over multiple TCP connections.

16 September 2009

New version of SupTitle v1.0.8 has been released.

30 August 2009

New version of SupTitle v1.0.7 has been released.

26 August 2009

New version of SupTitle v1.0.6 has been released.

25 August 2009

New version of SupTitle v1.0.5 has been released.

24 August 2009

New version of SupTitle v1.0.4 has been released.

23 August 2009

New version of SupTitle v1.0.3 has been released.

21 August 2009

New version of SupTitle v1.0.2 has been released.

05 July 2009

Pilot version of SupTitle has been released. SupTitle is an AviSynth plugin that renders Blu-ray PGS .SUP subtitles. SUP files can be extracted from a BD or HD DVD movie using eac3to. For bug reports, feedback or assistance, visit the SupTitle Forum.

22 November 2008

New version of TBBMM has been released.

19 November 2008

Another new version of TBBMM has been released.

18 November 2008

New version of TBBMM has been released.

16 November 2008

Pilot version of TBBMM has been released. TBBMM is a BorlndMM.dll replacement for Borland / CodeGear RAD Studio applications. It is faster than FastMM and has near perfect scaling across multicores in multithreaded applications.

1 October 2008

New version of QuickPHP is now available. Version 1.4 adds support for using PHP scripts to implement extensions / mods (à la Apache modules such as mod_rewrite, mod_headers etc.). Read the QuickPHP Mod Documentation for more information. Head over to the QuickPHP page to download the latest version.

21 September 2008

QuickPHP for commercial use is now available for online purchase here and;
Advanced TreeView for .NET WinForms (royalty free distribution) can be purchased here.

17 September 2008

New version of QuickPHP is now available. Version 1.3 adds support for standard web server superglobals such as $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] as well as support for silent exit (suppress confirmations). Head over to the QuickPHP page for more details.

7 September 2008

New version of QuickPHP is now available. Version 1.2 adds support for command line arguments. Head over to the QuickPHP page for more details.

27 August 2008

New version of QuickPHP is now available. Version 1.1 adds support for PHP sessions and cookies. Head over to the QuickPHP page for more details.

24 July 2008

Updates for QuickPHP is now available. Version 1.0.1 is a bug fix release. Head over to the QuickPHP page for more details.

23 July 2008

Updates for Advanced TreeView is now available. Version 1.0.1 fixes a few drag and drop bugs. Head over to the Advanced TreeView page for more details.

19 July 2008

Released the first version of QuickPHP - PHP Tester and Debugger (Lightweight PHP Web Server). This is a PHP Development Web Server (similar to ASP.NET Development Web Server that comes with Visual Studio, except that it's for PHP instead of ASP.NET).

16 July 2008

Added PackIt (formerly Xtrimsoft PackIt) to this site. I used to run a company called Xtrimsoft but seeing that it's no longer in business, I'll be supporting PackIt via this site.

4 July 2008

Restructured site to categorize the various rants - and of course, their solutions, if any.

20 June 2008

Pilot version of this site. Demo version of Advanced TreeView version 1.0 released.