Archive for March, 2006



Progress on a Tablet PC

I’ve been meaning wrap this up and post it for a while, so here goes. It’s a very simple window which will let you capture a signature using the MS Tablet PC SDK. This code should run on any tablet PC, but you can also run it on a plain XP machine as long as [...]

findstr

I’ve pointed this out to a couple of people over the last week, so I though I’d try and double that number by posting about it. If you need to search through progress code, or for that matter any text file, on an XP box then you should investigate findstr. It’s virtually a grep [...]

PDAs are Getting Cheap

My last PDA cost me well over £200. I can’t remember about the one before that, but it was at least the same. This time ‘round I’ve lucked out with a brand new, Windows Mobile 5 PDA with built in wi-fi, keyboard, camera and phone. The best bit of all was the price. While [...]