Recent content by woolstar

ksharp, I think you've made an important declaration that drafting is not what you want to do. You could do it, but you wouldn't be great at it, or have the motivation to excel at it. I made that mistake once in college taking on a summer job that I wasn't really into, and I sucked at it. As...

It was explained to me by a COGNOS consultant that Transformer is just as happy (maybe even happier) reading the data from a file. If you could dump out the relevant records in the available time, then you could let transformer chew on it for as long as it wanted. An alternative (what we're...

There used to be a huge difference between: p= blabal ; p ++ ; and blabla[x ++] Back in the dark ages, the difference in runtime for a screen grabbing loop was: arrays 170 seconds pointers 10 seconds Now adays, there's so much [] use out there the compiler writers made it much more...

Do it just like the main dialog is called: CAplDialog d1 ; d1.doModal() ;

With a general slow down amongst me and my friends, I saw up to a factor of two drop in pay. No one is really happy about it, and no one is going to be the least bit loyal when things pick up, but each made his choice. Just don't skimp on doing the job. Have a bad rep is worse than having a...

Try void Break(int **anumber)

They're on the VC 5.0 install CD. Some of them also come with older versions of IE. If all else failes, try www.microsoft.com or do a google search for the particular file.

This reminds me of a programming problem at a computer programming contest I was once in. The problem was to create "magic squares". I worked on solving this problem in a combinatorial way and didn't finish in the time allowed. The published solution just generated every square...

As far as filling the time, I've never been at a Job where I was lacking for things I wanted to change. Everything could be improved. Or at least, refactored. Even when I went through my last layoffs and had six months to myself, I barely finished the 9th rewrite of my cross platform...

Fidleid has some good points. While I would be equally agahst at backing up data on floppies, I can't lay my hands on a "authoritative" source which backs up my own person experience that floppies is bad. So my first thought would be to dig one up. But barring that, I'd suggest a...

When you added the declaration: void (interrupt far *inthandler)();// You told the compiler that the callback shouldn't have any arguements. Actually, old C lets you use () for "whatever". C++ however doesn't. You'll have to match parameters in the declaration with reality.

I do some volunteer work supporting a local non profit on the side, and there's a similar resistance to change. There's two things I do that help. 1) Listen. Often the staff just has an "irrational fear of change", and hearing that, validating it (no it doesn't make sense to me, but...

I _had_ a boss like this. Decided I worked for the company, not for the boss. Did what was best, ignored the boss. Was asked to make minor changes to old software (which was on the brink of falling apart). Refactored and rewrote the entire application from scratch in about the same time...