Published at June 21, 2008 · 10 min read
Starting from the Beginning I have been a Visual Basic developer for over ten years now. It was not my first language that got me excited about programming. No, that would have been Clipper. I accidentally fell into Clipper much the same way that Visual Basic started as an experiment for me. It was sometime around 1987 or 1988 when I was working as the accountant and network administrator for my family’s car dealership....
No no he is not DEAD! He is resting!
Published at June 21, 2008 · 5 min read
Just in case you did not get the Monty Python reference here is a cartoon courtesy of Blaugh which gets right to the point. I have been away from writing anything for my web site for a very, very, long time. Where have I been? Where do I begin? I have been quite busy developing software for a number of clients that I cannot name because of none disclosure clauses in my contracts....
Published at June 21, 2008 · 7 min read
I love to keep track of time. It could be related to my love of data and all the information that I can extract from it: how much fuel does my car use, how much time do I spend on stuff each week, how many hours am I away from my family. Actually my attraction to time tracking goes much deeper than that. I never planned to start my own business when I made the career change into software development so many years ago....
Published at June 21, 2008 · 5 min read
For most of our lives we have a constant struggle to try to be the boss of ourselves. Does it ever happen? When you grew up as a child I am sure you have memories similar to mine where at some point in your life you were struggling to gain control of your own life. Could not wait to move out of the house and get out on your own, so that you could be the boss of you....
Published at June 14, 2008 · 9 min read
A little more than a year ago, Mary and I had a discussion about the many projects that we both have had in the backs of our minds and would like to make a reality. We thought a corporation would be good in that it could provide us with the legal entity and a single structure in which we could register our copyrights and trademarks. It might also provide us with some tax relief and if things went well, could very well represent a major part of our future....