Programming Paid Off
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I just saw a post in the Soapbox where someone said how they like seeing their app in use in the office. I replied with my view on the subject, that being that I feel the same way. But here is the real question... What app/web app paid off the most for you, and in what way? CANNOT be because of money. It would be nice if you gave a small description of the app so we get a jist of what it was. If it was something private or say FBI related tell us what you legally can. For me, it was a almost-complete(still working on it) web application that contains almost every aspect of running a youth football league. It dynamically creates most of the web page, assists in posting news, sponsors, game schedules ect. The main purpose though is to do the administration side, i.e. rosters, registrations. It was the most paying because of it high direct use, and the fact that it helps thousands of kids play football for 2 seasons a year in Arizona.
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo
For me it would be a program/project I wrote in school. Not because it is in use (at least I don't think it is, teachers often use programs written by students and sell them) or it helps anyone. But because it was a project I learned alot from (mainly because I added to the requirements). The program itself was for a camping. You could add all sorts of object wich you could visually difine yourself (and form) It would start by adding a camping and then you could visually difine the entire layout off the camping (lake,standing places, offices,...) and add property's to those objects (vacant or not , gas or not, electricity or not , ...). Everything would be saved with serializing (and a db ofcourse).
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I just saw a post in the Soapbox where someone said how they like seeing their app in use in the office. I replied with my view on the subject, that being that I feel the same way. But here is the real question... What app/web app paid off the most for you, and in what way? CANNOT be because of money. It would be nice if you gave a small description of the app so we get a jist of what it was. If it was something private or say FBI related tell us what you legally can. For me, it was a almost-complete(still working on it) web application that contains almost every aspect of running a youth football league. It dynamically creates most of the web page, assists in posting news, sponsors, game schedules ect. The main purpose though is to do the administration side, i.e. rosters, registrations. It was the most paying because of it high direct use, and the fact that it helps thousands of kids play football for 2 seasons a year in Arizona.
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo
It's whatever lets me pay my mortgage and feed my kids. I love this job (every bit as much now as when I started over 20 years ago) but if it didn't pay the bills and give my family a decent life I'd find something that did and this would go back to being a harmelss hobby.
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I just saw a post in the Soapbox where someone said how they like seeing their app in use in the office. I replied with my view on the subject, that being that I feel the same way. But here is the real question... What app/web app paid off the most for you, and in what way? CANNOT be because of money. It would be nice if you gave a small description of the app so we get a jist of what it was. If it was something private or say FBI related tell us what you legally can. For me, it was a almost-complete(still working on it) web application that contains almost every aspect of running a youth football league. It dynamically creates most of the web page, assists in posting news, sponsors, game schedules ect. The main purpose though is to do the administration side, i.e. rosters, registrations. It was the most paying because of it high direct use, and the fact that it helps thousands of kids play football for 2 seasons a year in Arizona.
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo
I was part of the original team that built Kodak Picture CD[^] - it's nice to see it's still being used more than a dozen years later. Aside from commercial products, I'd have to say I'm gratified by the number of people who use my freeware apps WeatherMate[^] and TakeStock[^]. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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I just saw a post in the Soapbox where someone said how they like seeing their app in use in the office. I replied with my view on the subject, that being that I feel the same way. But here is the real question... What app/web app paid off the most for you, and in what way? CANNOT be because of money. It would be nice if you gave a small description of the app so we get a jist of what it was. If it was something private or say FBI related tell us what you legally can. For me, it was a almost-complete(still working on it) web application that contains almost every aspect of running a youth football league. It dynamically creates most of the web page, assists in posting news, sponsors, game schedules ect. The main purpose though is to do the administration side, i.e. rosters, registrations. It was the most paying because of it high direct use, and the fact that it helps thousands of kids play football for 2 seasons a year in Arizona.
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo
My first application for my current employer ran a small inkjet printing system. The system was inexpensive enough that it could be sold to mom-and-pop printing shops. These businesses typically did small run jobs where they were addressing magazines, pamphlets, church envelopes, and that sort of thing. My app was different from anything we'd done before or since, in that it tried to adapt to the customer's data format, rather than force them to use a specific format that required custom data preparation. It worked well, and is still in use in some shops 15 years later. Even though we end-of-life'd the product five years ago, I still get a couple e-mails a year about it from customers. It was quite a change from my previous job working for a defense contractor. There, it was common to work on a project for a year or more, hand it to the customer, and watch it disappear. They would run the application (usually a simulation) for a week or two and then put it on the shelf. That was really demoralizing.
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I was part of the original team that built Kodak Picture CD[^] - it's nice to see it's still being used more than a dozen years later. Aside from commercial products, I'd have to say I'm gratified by the number of people who use my freeware apps WeatherMate[^] and TakeStock[^]. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Hey Ravi - do you still work for Kodak? I work for them now. Actually, I started working for them in 1990, then they sold us, and ten years after that, they bought us back.
Software Zen:
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I just saw a post in the Soapbox where someone said how they like seeing their app in use in the office. I replied with my view on the subject, that being that I feel the same way. But here is the real question... What app/web app paid off the most for you, and in what way? CANNOT be because of money. It would be nice if you gave a small description of the app so we get a jist of what it was. If it was something private or say FBI related tell us what you legally can. For me, it was a almost-complete(still working on it) web application that contains almost every aspect of running a youth football league. It dynamically creates most of the web page, assists in posting news, sponsors, game schedules ect. The main purpose though is to do the administration side, i.e. rosters, registrations. It was the most paying because of it high direct use, and the fact that it helps thousands of kids play football for 2 seasons a year in Arizona.
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo
There are only two seasons here in Arizona (in the Phoenix area anyway). My son will be playing soccer again next month.
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Hey Ravi - do you still work for Kodak? I work for them now. Actually, I started working for them in 1990, then they sold us, and ten years after that, they bought us back.
Software Zen:
delete this;I was at Kodak from 1994-2000. I see you're in the digital printing arena - do you know anyone from Atex? Our group (Boston Development Center) had a lot of ex-Atex folk. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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I just saw a post in the Soapbox where someone said how they like seeing their app in use in the office. I replied with my view on the subject, that being that I feel the same way. But here is the real question... What app/web app paid off the most for you, and in what way? CANNOT be because of money. It would be nice if you gave a small description of the app so we get a jist of what it was. If it was something private or say FBI related tell us what you legally can. For me, it was a almost-complete(still working on it) web application that contains almost every aspect of running a youth football league. It dynamically creates most of the web page, assists in posting news, sponsors, game schedules ect. The main purpose though is to do the administration side, i.e. rosters, registrations. It was the most paying because of it high direct use, and the fact that it helps thousands of kids play football for 2 seasons a year in Arizona.
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo
Oh, as to the question... Way back when I was in college and had a co-op job... I worked for another college and a couple of times a year the girl from the Placement office would print a long list of two- and three-digit numbers (several sheets of fan-fold paper, dot matrix printer). The next day, she'd do it again, and again... Finally I said, "What the heck are you doing?!" (Or something to that effect.) It turned out she needed to compile a report of placement statistics for the accreditation board. The Placement director had a form that was basically an oft-copied hand-drawn grid of tiny boxes that were to be filled in and added up. If they didn't come out right, e.g. 110% placement, they'd have to correct the data, re-print, and try again. :omg: After they explained it, I said I could probably ease their burden (and save a forest or two). I wrote a program that could correct the obvious errors in the data (e.g. if a record said that the Computer Science major was in the Culinary department :rolleyes: Referential Integrity? We don't need no stinkin' Referential Integrity!) which I then scheduled to run periodically. And I wrote another program that would compile and print the report (using ASCII characters to form the grid). The girl then needed only to enter one command at the command line and the report would print out about fifteen seconds later, on one sheet of paper. She was verrrry appreciative... we've been married for sixteen years now. :jig:
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I was at Kodak from 1994-2000. I see you're in the digital printing arena - do you know anyone from Atex? Our group (Boston Development Center) had a lot of ex-Atex folk. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
I'm afraid not, although we may have acquired folks from Atex and I just don't know them. My group has several hundred people, and is in Dayton, Ohio. Our name history runs something like this: Mead Dijit ('70's and 80's) Diconix (80's) Kodak Dayton Operations (early 90's) Scitex Digital Printing (late 90's through 2003) Kodak Versamark (2003 through 2007) Kodak (2007 to today) Our product has always been the same thing: high speed, commercial ink jet printers.
Software Zen:
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I just saw a post in the Soapbox where someone said how they like seeing their app in use in the office. I replied with my view on the subject, that being that I feel the same way. But here is the real question... What app/web app paid off the most for you, and in what way? CANNOT be because of money. It would be nice if you gave a small description of the app so we get a jist of what it was. If it was something private or say FBI related tell us what you legally can. For me, it was a almost-complete(still working on it) web application that contains almost every aspect of running a youth football league. It dynamically creates most of the web page, assists in posting news, sponsors, game schedules ect. The main purpose though is to do the administration side, i.e. rosters, registrations. It was the most paying because of it high direct use, and the fact that it helps thousands of kids play football for 2 seasons a year in Arizona.
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo
I wrote an app once for a company that was attempting to catalog all the schools in America. It was freely distributed on floppy disk to school secretaries who filled in info about their school (how many home rooms, what was the school mascot, subjects, teachers, clubs, etc, etc) and sent the floppy back to the company's offices in TN. At that time, searching the database of schools was free (it's now charged), aimed at parents who were contemplating relocating. It paid off in two ways ... firstly, I had taken great care to identify the "average" school secretary and design the interface to suit, which seemed to work out well (lots of secretaries reported the ease with which they could navigate the menus, enter and save data). Secondly, it seemed to be a program that fufilled a social need and couldn't be justified in terms of humans we don't have to hire.