04 March 2003

Well it's official, we still develop for Windows 3.1 Don't you just hate old projects that come back? I've just seen the most scary sight ever, and that's the face of an engineer whos just been told he needs to develop his software for Windows 3.1. Time to be quiet as to the fact that I'm the only person in the company to actually have coded for it before. Now where did I put my copy of Visual Studio 1.5, or 1.6, or whatever the last 16 bit version was... He might be needing that. I can't wait for the conversation. No, you don't have a tab control. No, you don't have threads. Maybe I should point him at Win32s, that way he can use Visual Studio 5 if I remember rightly. What other blogs are saying about this post. 5:31:24 PM    comment []  trackback []

Synchronous Serial Interfaces I hate synchronous serial interfaces. It seems that wherever I end up as a software engineer I always return to writing code to access serial ports. Anybody have any code examples for using the SSI on the AMD Elan SC520? Didn't think so. What other blogs are saying about this post. 2:23:39 PM    comment []  trackback []

Impressive ASP.NET control. I was so blown away when I first saw how dramatic the change was from ASP to ASP.NET. I saw a lot of potential in the web control component area. Today I'm testing out a combo box control that is pretty slick: dbCombo. It's a database driven combo box containing a set of much needed features. For example, it has the auto-fill feature. Start typing and the first item closest to the prefix is selected. Another neat feature is that it only downloads a necessary portion of the list. So if you have a combo list that's 1M lines it only starts with the first 10. Then as you start typing it drills down narrowing the scope. Pretty slick if you ask me. [Stronglytyped.com] Looks good, works well and it's just what I need for our intranet here. What other blogs are saying about this post. 10:27:18 AM    comment []  trackback []

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