This site is about some of the issues I’ve had to deal with, and the solutions I (or others) found. It’s about what to do when there is a problem, and you have to throw code at it until it goes away. In a lot of cases, it’s simply a compilation of questions I’ve been asked over the years, and how they were eventually answered. As much as possible, I not only illustrate how…, but also why… Hopefully, I have written it at a level that beginners can understand and learn from, but also kept it high-end enough to be interesting to the geek of heart. I have some fairly technical scripts and custom actions in native Wise (up to enumerating the registry, and other things Wise doesn’t know it can do), odd but useful admin tools (including multi-threaded batch files), really ugly but necessary fixes and just stuff.
About Case Else
Some time ago, I worked in a VB shop. I had worked for a while and had been picked to head up their new ‘Special Projects’ group. Around the same time, HR asked all the various groups to name their areas. We chose ‘Case Else:’. Case Else is the fall-through for a case/switch structured-if block in Visual BASIC. Most other high end languages have a switch of some sort, but VB’s makes a better name than most (ie, “default”).
It turned out that most of the departments named their areas things like “Oak Street”. It also tuned out that many of the developers would wander by and ask what our sign meant. I left, not long after that.
About Me
I’ve programmed Wise professionally since 2000, and in VB-family languages since 1989. Before that it was assembly, BASIC, batch–the usual for 20 years ago. More recently I’ve moved on to C-like languages (javascript, C++) and web programming. I’ve mentored junior programmers, and in every job I’ve held, I have eventually been moved into a last-chance group (‘SWAT’, ‘Special Ops’, ‘Git `er Done!’, whatever they call them where you are) to deal with the issues that everybody had given up on. Over the years I’ve actually done some pretty cool code in some pretty odd languages for pretty rational reasons. Well… they seemed rational at the time.
Unless something has blown up, all of the header photography on this site was taken by (or for) me.
~Neil
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