General News about FPAssistant and CADology
Quite often we get asked.... How is FPAssistant software delivered? Well in the old days this could be through an installer but could be a big effort when dealing with a single DLL file. Then again, it could be zipped up and sent by email, download link and the customer would need be contacted or have [...]
Code Coverage is important when testing software to investigate and determine how much of the programmers code is being coverage by the test cases. The code coverage amount is represented as a percentage. The Wikipedia definition is... "In computer science, test coverage is a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code [...]
There are quite a few mobile apps and also web sites that allow real-time flight tracking presenting data with the aircraft overlaid on a map. There are a few places to access this flight data and one which we have found driven by a worldwide community of participants is ADS-B Exchange. This site is co-op of [...]
Microsoft have now officially dropped support for Windows 10 Mobile which is a shame as FPAssistant was running on this platform quite well, the screen shots below show some parts with maps, tables and graphs used in the FPAssistant app for Windows 10 mobile. Sadly, this means that FPAssistant will not be progressed any further [...]
I first tried a working concept of Virtual Reality (VR) in the early 1990's with a prototype by Autodesk, this was (if I remember correctly) powered by an Intel 286 based PC with two graphics cards in ISA slots each connected to their own small CRT (~2in) one for each eye; the helmet was quite [...]
Having not been to the World ATM Congress for a few years I thought that this year I would visit Madrid and attend. Prior to leaving the UK we had some very cold weather and snow was causing disruption but I managed to arrive in Madrid on time and get to see some old friends [...]