Homeowner Forum / Security Alarms / July 2009

I was just having some fun with you.

Not true

Robert.  A whole host of individuals could simply "speak the truth" and
we would wind up in another long thread of "he said, he said" with no
one emerging "victorious" or "vindicated".  No one here (with the
exception of Troll Kingfish) has referenced anything you've done "in the
past", yet you seem bent on "setting the record straight".  I hate to
tell you this, but that record has two sides.  For petems sake, don't go
there!!  The past is the past, let sleeping dogs lie, don't bark up the
wrong tree, water under the bridge, and all that.

Heck...  I don't mind one bit that you talk politics.  You have very
strong views (some of which I share).  Personally, I'm glad to see you
"back in the saddle again, pahdner".  I know the last year was really
rough for you.

Frank

Dig?, not really, I know you prefer people to fawn, rather than yawn over
your "everybody look at me & how great I am" fables but the fact that I
couldn't suppress a quick yawn doesn't really constitute a dig, just me
respectfully expressing my opinion.

Doug

The help development tool I used is called RoboHelp.  The VP of Edwards said
my help system was the best he'd ever seen.

I thought it was pretty damned funny, considering all the hate posts from the
named participants claiming I was doing no such thing at the time.

BTW, the app we developed did something no other downloader did before nor, to
my knowledge, has done since.  It provided the ability to configure and
download virtually any control panel by simply modifying the schema.  Instead
of spending a few hundred hours writing a new app or even a new module every
time a new series of panels is created, the manufacturer only needs to change
a simple, easy to understand (because it's well commented) text file.  Try
that with Compass or Quickloader.

Our software team has, cumulatively, over 80 years of experience.  My sister
has been writing machine control apps since the 70's.  Mike has done
everything from high level coding (COBOL, Fortran, etc.) to firmware.  He has
written the most comprehensive development tool for COBOL in use today.  He
also developed an OS for a mainframe builder.  We were offered the job of
developing the firmware for Edwards as well as the downloader, but we turned
that down due to time constraints and concentrated on the DACT Manager (since
renamed, IIRC).

I learned programming in 1969 when a "small" computer would fill a large room
and PC's were the stuff of futuristic cartoons.  I've written modules to
enhance industry apps like BOLD.  I've also developed a number of stand-alone
apps, including one of the first (really basic) computerized central station
monitoring systems.  That system was not for market -- something I wrote to
help manage my own small central station.  After a couple of years using it I
purchased BOLD and went on to write a number of add-ons for it.  Although I
learned five languages, I have nowhere near the coding experience of my family
members.  Other business interests have kept me too busy to do as much in that
area as I might otherwise have done.