alex_hitchins

This was my first website visit of the day, every day back then.

I still remember seeing a post with 'XP style' buttons for VB6 that I used on a Windows Server 2000 application and thought it was the bees knees.

Another I recal was a PSC code scanning tool, written itself in VB6.

Happy happy times.

I'm sure there was a startup a few years ago trying to achieve this. I can't recall the name sadly, it was 10+ years ago. Agar or something perhaps?

I believe you topped up a balance and if the site supported it could access per-article resouces for a one off fee. For this to really work it needs to be site independant however.

Indeed, it's come along way and I'm not knocking it.

Point is thought this was there out the box with VB.

If I recall correctly, you could write new code during debugging sessions, move the pointer to it and run it. Very dynamic. We can now do some of these things in VS or other tools with .Net, however VB was much more powerful in this regard. I can only recall there being one statement that required a rebuild - was it CreateObject or similar?

Thing is it was never a prototype, always the end product. Had a lot of Access systems that were created by people in their roles that got widespread use then grandfathered into general dev support too. These were always horrible but too big to change.

Louis Rossmann - He's done some good analysis around rents in NYC.

Surely this enables them to just keep up, rather than having the freedom to innovate?

“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

I came here to say the same (but undoubtedly not nearly as well as yourself).

It was the religious stuff that put me off completely. Being in a group of people all there with a common cause I felt was quite powerful. Hearing shared experiences from the community was helpful. I just couldn't pretend I was OK with peddling any form of faith.

With my bank, the telephone banking password is very different from the one you use to log in.

There he is! I just didn't recognize him. Thanks for pointing him out. I was feeling quite aggrieved on his behalf there!

Is it not missing Eric S. Raymond?

EDIT : Yes, he is there - just didn't recognise him.

I hope so as I'd be one of those applying and moving. The whole Brexit mess is very very depressing. I hope the mess we are making goes to bolster Europe as a whole and show how it's so much better to just get along.

Exactly. HR is never your friend. Join a union if you want peer support. Actually, just join a union.

I seem to recall something along the lines of large bombers running valves as they were less prone to effects of EMP around nuclear blasts. Not sure if this perhaps something similar?