HTML editor / BoM Application
Letter to sibling, 6/11/03 10:56 PM
Thank you for the suggestions. I will add hobbies to my resume', so that I will appear to be healthy and well-rounded (i.e., lie).
I recently wrote a multi-document-interface HTML editor in Visual BASIC, complete with built-in HTTP / Web browser---- it will display web pages one is working on, as well as display web pages on the WWW. One need not even save the file one is editing: the browser is updated for changes so that the user can see what the changes look like without saving the file.
I did this project, as well as my Bill Of Material program, to get my head up-to-speed with the latest Visual BASIC has to offer. I now consider myself a very good VB programmer, and I will look for jobs in this field.
If you see jobs for a VB programmer, with our without database administration / programming, I'd like to hear about them.
Some day I'll show you some of the programs I've written. I don't know if you are familiar with manufacturing, but I wrote a Bill of Material program wherein a production planner may enter a part number, and all of the sub-assemblies and components are "exploded" (called "The Product Structure"), material cost is calculated, labor cost, labor burden, and labor hours are calculated, lead-time is calculated, and various other production items are included. It includes vendors, purchase orders, and work orders. I could make it an "Enterprise" application, wherein the database can be located anywhere in the world, and users may use the Internet to access data. I have not finished the program, as I have been writing two books (at the same time), and I've been lazy.
If I ever finish the BoM program, I could sell it for $100 and include the source code. Thousands of small businesses could use it. Larger businesses generally use massive programs that do "everything," costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. I wanted a simple production application that a small business, such as a telescope maker or a pie baker, could use to figure out what to buy, when to buy it, how much it will cost to make, how long it will take to make it, where to send purchase orders, and what the expected profit might be. What I have to think about is an Employees module.
Several people have asked me to publish some of my political essays. I do not know if there is a market for them. If there was, I'd be selling one a day---- there is much to write about.
Thank you for the suggestions. I will add hobbies to my resume', so that I will appear to be healthy and well-rounded (i.e., lie).
I recently wrote a multi-document-interface HTML editor in Visual BASIC, complete with built-in HTTP / Web browser---- it will display web pages one is working on, as well as display web pages on the WWW. One need not even save the file one is editing: the browser is updated for changes so that the user can see what the changes look like without saving the file.
I did this project, as well as my Bill Of Material program, to get my head up-to-speed with the latest Visual BASIC has to offer. I now consider myself a very good VB programmer, and I will look for jobs in this field.
If you see jobs for a VB programmer, with our without database administration / programming, I'd like to hear about them.
Some day I'll show you some of the programs I've written. I don't know if you are familiar with manufacturing, but I wrote a Bill of Material program wherein a production planner may enter a part number, and all of the sub-assemblies and components are "exploded" (called "The Product Structure"), material cost is calculated, labor cost, labor burden, and labor hours are calculated, lead-time is calculated, and various other production items are included. It includes vendors, purchase orders, and work orders. I could make it an "Enterprise" application, wherein the database can be located anywhere in the world, and users may use the Internet to access data. I have not finished the program, as I have been writing two books (at the same time), and I've been lazy.
If I ever finish the BoM program, I could sell it for $100 and include the source code. Thousands of small businesses could use it. Larger businesses generally use massive programs that do "everything," costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. I wanted a simple production application that a small business, such as a telescope maker or a pie baker, could use to figure out what to buy, when to buy it, how much it will cost to make, how long it will take to make it, where to send purchase orders, and what the expected profit might be. What I have to think about is an Employees module.
Several people have asked me to publish some of my political essays. I do not know if there is a market for them. If there was, I'd be selling one a day---- there is much to write about.
