Welcome 

 

These pages are an attempt to shake off the bit-mould from the many software projects I have started, and mostly not finished over the years. Some of this stuff is very usable, some of it needs work.

I also hope to document some of the more interesting projects I've undertaken.

In additional to that it is an aide-mémoire to little bits of problem solving I frequently encounter day to day.

The Source code section provides downloadable source code to some of the software projects here. Where available binaries are also provided. A lot of projects I have coded over the years have been written in Borland Delphi, mainly because that is what I started using 20 years ago. 

 

 

From Tom Merritt's Chronology of Tech History

  • On this day in 1960 - The JOSS (Johniac Open Shop System) conversational time-sharing service began on the Rand Corporations Johnniac computer. Time-sharing reduced the time programmers had to wait after turning in their punch cards.
  • On this day in 1994 - University of North Carolina student radio station WXYC began what is considered the worlds first Internet radio broadcast. DJ Michael Shoffner set it up. The simulcast continued as of 2012.
  • On this day in 1996 - NASA launched the Mars global surveyor, humanitys return to Mars after a 10-year absence. The mission discovered much about the Geology of the planet.