Also back in the 90's, we had Leif create an app that turned a Palm Pilot into a data collection device for a construction company's foremen. When the foremen were done entering their data about labor and equipment usage, they connected the Palm to a phone line, then transmitted that data to the iSeries. When the send function was finished, the iSeries sent back updates to the database on the Palm.
The client loved the fact that there were no more late or misplaced timesheets at payroll time.
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Leif had some code where a batch program could access a file from your online qtemp session that you might have created from an online inquiry. That was in late 90s I think. Sounded cool at the time.
On Sunday, June 30, 2024, 07:14:36 PM CDT, Andrew Lopez (SXS US) <andrew.lopez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nice to see Leif Svalgaard's work still being used or referenced.
I remember looking forward to new chapters when he was still adding to his MI book. They brought me a lot of joy just watching him decipher things, and I felt a lot of that reading this presentation as well. Even though my first programming language was 8086 assembly, it was obvious then and it's obvious now that plenty of people are way more advanced than me. And live at a different level. I've spent the last 14 years explaining to people why their Purchase Orders print, and have lost all of that that outlook that lived in registers/little-endian vs big-endian/high-jacking pointers.
But I'm glad there's still people out there doing it. Maybe when I retire I can get back to hacking on a system sitting underneath the dining room table.
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