Legacy Apps Office and ODBC
June 14th, 2010I work in a JAVA shop, but since I’ve been a programmer for 40 years I get called on to fix the legacy apps floating around the workplace. I’ve used systems starting with Fortran (with format) in 1970. I’ve coded in a dozen flavors of Basic, COBOL, BAL,Mark IV, Focus, Ramis, Snowball, C, C++, Pascal, [...]
Visual Songwriter in Javascript
June 13th, 2010I wrote a visual Songwriting page at my http://www.harptab.com site Visual Harmonica Tab Songwriter. I wrote one for guitar tab, too: Visual Guitar Tab Songwriter I have now conquered drag and drop (without benefit of some bloated framework) and I am thinking of applications where a visual editor in javascript would be a cool thing. [...]
Surprise Money Coming In
June 2nd, 2010In the last week I have received payments to my PayPal account from Yahoo and Kontera. I had given up on these more than a year ago as being low yield advertising. I have not logged on to these accounts in so long that the passwords are lost and the email address that I used [...]