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Should I Be One with the Force? That's Up to You.
Five years ago I was interviewing for a marketing position at a little software company in St. Paul, Minnesota. My final interviewquestion in the group interview was, “Star Wars or Star Trek?”“I haven’t seen either,” I confessed. There were looks of blank incomprehension. I think I almost didn’t get the job.…

Jana Schmid
Marketing Director
2015-11-13
How to Install GardenCAD on Mac
We are asked about Windows software running in CrossOver all the time. The range of programs varies so much that it's always questionable on what it might take to get the application running. Most of the time, it's easy.Recently, we received a request for a second look at GardenCAD and it's big brother, gCADPlus. To our…

Caron Wills
2015-11-12
Magic Mirror on the Wall is our 2015 New Website the Fairest of Them All?
The year was 2012. It was the last time our website was redesigned. It was a time when it was believed that Adobe Flash would survive, it was the death of the fold and typography was really started to explode in the world of web design. It was a time when the most searched company stock was Facebook, the most searched song…

Jana Schmid
Marketing Director
2015-10-13
How I'm Earning My Beer, part 3
The final piece is getting Wine Test Daily to run automagically. That means, it should run when I'm not here, whenever Wine has been updated. Sure, I can reach over and start all of the tests on each system here at CodeWeavers every day when I appear at work but the fact that I can have my systems setup to do it for me is…

Caron Wills
2015-10-12
How I'm Earning My Beer, part 2
After completing the first part; Wine's Conformance Tests ran and that was all well and good and fun. There was a flurry of flashes on the screen, various windows were named after various tests, sound played, I rejoiced. It was an exciting accomplishment!But the report did not work. My results did not show up and I was…

Caron Wills
2015-10-07
How I'm Earning My Beer, part 1
I had the pleasure of attending WineConf 2015 in Vienna, Austria. The weather was better than I could have asked for, the food was excellent. The company of thirty five other contributors to Wine was encouraging and appreciated. It's the first WineConf in years and it was well overdue. Everyone's reports are…

Caron Wills
2015-10-02
Epic Marketing Rock Stars We Hear You
Every once in a while you have a blog topic bouncing around in your head, but you lack the inspiration to start it. Well I got it, on Sunday, when I was at the mall with my 2 kids enjoying a beautiful morning full of ice lattes, lemon bread and the Fall's latest fashions.My phone dings. It's Twitter. Someone mentioned me.…

Jana Schmid
Marketing Director
2015-09-29
Why are Tiers Sometimes So Goofy in World of Warships?
[As some of you may recall, I'm testing World of Warships at work, because we're doing the Mac port of this forthcoming game for Wargaming, Inc. That's right, playing games actually is "testing." As it happens, too, I'm also a naval historian who's written a book on the Battle of Midway, an adjunct lecturer for the U.S.…

Jon Parshall
2015-09-10
Two Weeks in CrossOver: Wine 1.7.48 now on board
This week we spent quality time with World of Tanks to test how well it runs across Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan. We performed a framerate check on various systems with several graphics cards and verified room for improvement in performance. This work has been given to Wargaming along with a fix…

Caron Wills
2015-08-12
It Had To Happen: I'm Playing World of Warships (on Mac)
It's no longer a secret that we've been doing work for Wargaming, Inc., the makers of the hugely popular World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, and the forthcoming World of Warships (which is currently in open beta). We're doing the Mac port of World of Warships, and we've gotten to the point where it's in good enough shape…

Jon Parshall
2015-08-11
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