Here's a working API using Tesseract. Not pretty but it works. GitHub - LeeKirkHawley/KOCR_Web[^]

Recursion is for programmers who haven't blown enough stacks yet.

I could have written that myself. Over the last 4 years I managed a transition from a desktop programmer to an ASP.NET programmer and made my employers happy. But people look at me and assume I'm over the hill.

Recursion is for programmers who haven't blown enough stacks yet.

I've been a developer for 30 years and I have exactly the same heartburn. I have to keep telling myself "Disk space is cheap now, memory is cheap now". I have to ignore the little voice telling me, "This machine is MASSIVELY faster than the machine I was working on 30 years ago - why does everything start and run so freaking slow?"

Recursion is for programmers who haven't blown enough stacks yet.

OriginalGriff wrote:

Jörgen Andersson wrote:

netizens of the lounge to have a laugh on my behalf.

We wouldn't do that! :laugh:

No. Programming is hard.

Recursion is for programmers who haven't blown enough stacks yet.

No. Programming is hard.

Recursion is for programmers who haven't blown enough stacks yet.

Git is now my preferred way of doing source code control. But the learning curve is ridiculously steep. If you have to get it together in a week, I'd say use Tortoise SVN or something.

Visual Studio bookmarks are very useful, I use em every day. Whenever I know I'm going to have to do some exploring to figure out what to do, I set a bookmark on the code I'm working on, and no matter how far I have to go I can get back by hitting F2 .

I think you eventually realize that there are great Microsoft projects and bad ones. VS is a great one, although it varies (the help system used to be great, now it sucks). A good example of a bad one is Orca, the msi decompiler, which I eventually found out was written by a Microsoft intern. (To be fair, the mess that is the msi internals was probably a lot of the problem.) Orca helped in Wix installer development, but only after beating your head against the desk for a prolonged period.

The late Steve Goodman wrote than song, the same guy who wrote City Of New Orleans.

The term "unit test" seems to be somewhat flexible. Where I work now, a "unit" is a feature. So a Unit Test is... a test. In one place I worked, I was the "unit" that was going to do the testing.

I've gotten more useful information about programming from Charles Petzold than any other writer I've read. I doubt I'd be doing this for a living now if I hadn't had the good sense to buy his early Windows books.