One of the things that all software companies confess to being passionate about is testing - and Handheld PCs are no different. We're busy testing some of the performance improvements scheduled for the next release and the initial phase is very promising.
We've also got some exciting ideas about how to make enterprise administrators lives a little easier for behind the firewall implementations, which will be weaved into next years releases.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Monday, 16 November 2009
Behind the scenes
We've been pretty busy recently, deciding what you're going to see from the product next. I thought it would be an opportunity to share with you some of our ambitions for hand-e-pix so that you know what's coming.
First things first: this is not a roadmap, and concepts discussed here are just that and are not guaranteed to even make a final release!
As a development team we are aiming to have a quarterly release. Every 3 months you'll see a new hand-e-pix release of some description or another. Not every release will affect every customer, for example we've done a fair amount of work recently on improving the hand-e-pix media manager; but future releases may well focus on mobile device clients.
Our next minor release is due before Christmas, and will include some major changes to the way that the media manager handles images. Our aim is to improve the page load time for search results and the main data grid, particularly for those people viewing the datagrid with 20 rows-per-page. In the current version we don't do any image manipulation, with the product focussing instead on the integrity of the originally captured content.
This philosophy doesn't change in the next release, but we're looking at creating thumbnails of the original hi-resolution jpeg photos automatically. Don't worry, you will still be able to view the original / native photograph as you can currently!
What we're all seeing is the file sizes being generated by the next generation of devices (think 5MP cameras) only going in one direction. We have to take this trend into account and hopefully address some of the performance implications before they are a problem for customers.
There are questions that form recurring themes: can we use voice or video files? Can hand-e-pix capture multiple photos per record? Can we restrict access to camera functions on the device? These (amongst others) are the questions that keep us scratching our heads, and hopefully you'll see answers for in the future. There are of course several other things that we know we can do better, but they will be addressed next year... watch this space!
First things first: this is not a roadmap, and concepts discussed here are just that and are not guaranteed to even make a final release!
As a development team we are aiming to have a quarterly release. Every 3 months you'll see a new hand-e-pix release of some description or another. Not every release will affect every customer, for example we've done a fair amount of work recently on improving the hand-e-pix media manager; but future releases may well focus on mobile device clients.
Our next minor release is due before Christmas, and will include some major changes to the way that the media manager handles images. Our aim is to improve the page load time for search results and the main data grid, particularly for those people viewing the datagrid with 20 rows-per-page. In the current version we don't do any image manipulation, with the product focussing instead on the integrity of the originally captured content.
This philosophy doesn't change in the next release, but we're looking at creating thumbnails of the original hi-resolution jpeg photos automatically. Don't worry, you will still be able to view the original / native photograph as you can currently!
What we're all seeing is the file sizes being generated by the next generation of devices (think 5MP cameras) only going in one direction. We have to take this trend into account and hopefully address some of the performance implications before they are a problem for customers.
There are questions that form recurring themes: can we use voice or video files? Can hand-e-pix capture multiple photos per record? Can we restrict access to camera functions on the device? These (amongst others) are the questions that keep us scratching our heads, and hopefully you'll see answers for in the future. There are of course several other things that we know we can do better, but they will be addressed next year... watch this space!
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