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2 Jan 2018   Updated: 2 Jan 2018   Rating: 4.98/5    Votes: 27   Popularity: 7.13
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This project solves the Pentominoes problem that fascinated famous Science Fiction Author Arthur C. Clarke.
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18 Apr 2016   Updated: 18 Apr 2016   Rating: 4.85/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.62
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In this article I will describe the approach I took in creating a jQuery Plugin for sorting HTML tables.
20 Jan 2016   Updated: 20 Jan 2016   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.20
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In this article I will show how simple programs can help improve your photography work flow. It simplifies the first step of selecting which images on your memory card or camera are worth processing. It uses a replacement for the PictureBox control that displays photographs and allows them to be zoo
20 Jan 2016   Updated: 20 Jan 2016   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.38
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In this article I will show how simple programs can help improve your photography work flow. Acme Photo resizer resizes JPG images in bulk. It can also add a copyright notice and the photograph's file name to each image. It was written to help me resize race photographs so that I could post them to
14 Jan 2016   Updated: 14 Jan 2016   Rating: 4.93/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.70
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In this article I will describe the approach I took in creating a VB.NET implementation of the Spider Solitaire Game.

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Web Developer Retired/Contractor
United States United States
I have been a software developer since 1969. I started writing Fortran programs for an IBM 1620 computer. That was followed by a few years writing commercial software for IBM 360/370 computers using PL/1. In 1979, my firm bought an Hewlett=Packard 3000 minicomputer. I developed a 4GL for this computer to make it easier to support pension fund applications.

In the 1990s, I moved to the US and worked as a consultant developing commercial applications using Visual Basic and various databases. I was the architect and lead developer for BETS, a VB6/Oracle application that administered healthcare benefits for Kaiser Permanente in Ohio. I later joined Kaiser Permanente and continued working on BETS.

When Microsoft stopped supporting VB6, the decision was made to convert BETS to a web based platform. Once again, I was the architect and lead developer, although we were fortunate to have a great web developer on the team. We converted 1.5 million lines of VB6 code to C# and javaScript. That project was very successful and Kaiser implemented BETS in four other regions. That was my last project before retiring.

I write games and personal applications for fun. Redback is the first project I've shared on Code Project. I have a checkers program written in C# and a web-based word program written in javaScript and jQuery in the works plus a couple of little image utilities that support my photography hobby.