| Programming, especially around databases, gives
my work variety and interest. I have Visual Basic 6.0
Enterprise Edition (the most advanced edition), and a large
library of reference books and CD's relating to VB
development. |
| For me (as it should be for all developers) the
primary consideration when writing a program is the interface
to the user. Snapper is an
example of how I made a powerful application less daunting and
therefore more usable, simply by making the interface familiar
(i.e. like Windows Explorer). |
| There are many examples of my work which
demonstrate my ability as a programmer, as I have been
developing professionally since I was 21. Perhaps the most
interesting was the hand-held PC application
I
wrote for a traffic-monitoring hardware company in Oxford
(if clicking link, please see page dated 15th Oct). The
brief was clear - it had to be extremely robust and fast
enough to keep up with the high transfer rates of the serial
ports on the roadside units. The finished application was
created in eVB (VB for handhelds) with a separate (though
integrated) downloader written in eVC (C++ for handhelds). |
| I can undertake development projects ranging
from small- to large-scale, using VB or VBA (the code behind
all of the Microsoft Office applications), or practically any
other dialect of Basic. |
| All of the coding and documentation I do for
clients (and for my own purposes) is to Microsoft standards
and guidelines, following the RedBook naming conventions. If
you want to follow in my footsteps then I can thoroughly
recommend the following books: |
- Practical Standards for Visual Basic (ISBN
0-7356-0733-8)
- Debugging Visual Basic (ISBN 0-07-212518-7)
- Visual Basic Developer's Handbook ((ISBN 0-7821-1985-9)
- Visual Basic from the Ground Up (ISBN 0-07-882508-3)
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