RE: Coolest code you've ever written

["Mark A. Manske" <mmanske@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Schenck, Don
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:25 AM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: Coolest code you've ever written


Years back (5-6) I wrote a credit system for a manufacturing/distribution
company, the customer service people could pull up all the orders and
previous credits for the customer, it had floating help windows, floating
"are you sure you want to delete this line" windows, cursor sensitive roll
keys (it had four subfiles, the header, the body, a historical and the
message subfile), you attached a part to the whole item by keying in the
part number over the shipped item, they could credit the customer based on
percent or override the credit amount.
You could also place an order to ship out replacements parts; decide if you
wanted to credit back the shipping or the tax, and with supervisor
authorization, give the customer credit for damage done by that companies
products to say your carpet, or couch.  It was a fun project, and it was
such a great feeling to see something that the users could use, liked, and
it made their job much more efficient...  That is what I love about this
profession, I can be a geek, and still help people.  It is funny at times,
friends, family, pastor all think that you are an introvert, shy, and do not
want to be around people because you are in the computer programming
profession - how far they are from the truth; I am a man, I USE up my 10,000
words per day usually before lunch, my poor, poor wife, I sometimes am all
talked out dealing with people, but it is very gratifying.


My only woe, I never did keep a copy of that code for "reference", and also
the other programmers where not
too happy with me giving the users such a robust, cool tool - most of them
did not want to learn new things -
If I wrote it today; it would really rock now with ILE, sub-procedures, and
the prevalence of PC's on everyone's desktop - oh to have a fun project
again with no restrictions, to let our creative juices flow...

looking forward to what others have done that they think is cool/proud of...

Mark A. Manske
[mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com]
Sr. Project Lead
Minter-Weisman

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