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Delphi and PHP programmer from Southern Wisconsin.

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May
30
comment User defined type for healthcare / Medical Records variable name prefixes?
It's in Code Complete in the variable naming section, I don't know a lot more than that. The author just gave an example of using ch for Character and pp for Paragraph, etc.. when naming variables when writing a word processor.
May
30
reviewed Reject suggested edit on What is a widely accepted term for a string variable that would probably contain a file path and file name?
May
30
comment User defined type for healthcare / Medical Records variable name prefixes?
Chart was probably a bad example since it's a pretty concrete object and I'd probably go with what you've got there, but medications and individual chart entries could behave more like character and paragraphs in word processors and might benefit from User Defined Types.
May
30
asked User defined type for healthcare / Medical Records variable name prefixes?
May
30
revised What is a widely accepted term for a string variable that would probably contain a file path and file name?
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May
30
comment What is a widely accepted term for a string variable that would probably contain a file path and file name?
@ErikReppen Yeah, I'm not concerned about convention, only usability. What I've got is not useable and prone to bugs. It seems like we should never, ever have a variable called "FilePath"
May
30
comment What is a widely accepted term for a string variable that would probably contain a file path and file name?
I wouldn't call it that because I don't ever want a directory name, I always want a file name.
May
30
asked What is a widely accepted term for a string variable that would probably contain a file path and file name?
Apr
4
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Mar
26
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Mar
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Mar
13
comment Converting mysql and SQLServer tables quickly in an update utility
That's just a good idea. The second part I can't do. I think we could do the first. The only problem is we've got to unpack something we can only figure out with recursive queries. But I think the utility would still be fast - especially if all the blob moving is done in a insert into ... select statement.
Mar
13
asked Converting mysql and SQLServer tables quickly in an update utility
Feb
29
comment PDF help in the software manual
@GrandmasterB I'm not entirely certain any more why we don't use it as the main viewer (that's sort a recent topic of conversation between me and the guy who handed off the project to me). We avoided embedding the activex control until recently - the fallback reader is QuickPDF and it works just as well (we use it for generating the PDFs in the first place).
Feb
29
comment PDF help in the software manual
Nurses are my end users, nurses are my testers. I'm not knocking nurses and neither should you, but yes this is a serious consideration for them and yes, in my opinion, Adobe does drastically change the look and feel of their reader between major versions.
Feb
29
asked PDF help in the software manual
Feb
24
comment Free alternative to BugZilla
@jan that's exactly where you learn the most! In any event, I may be mischaracterizing what I did. We already used madexcept for bug reporting, all I did was write a script for logging the bug reports, something that would need to be done regardless of how you used the software.
Feb
10
comment Is it a good practice to name the returned variable “result”?
Do you work with a lot of former Delphi programmers?
Feb
6
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Dec
27
comment What is (was) an update channel?
Thanks, even though I didn't want to talk about Firefox in particular, following some of those links showed me a few things about how this stuff might work. A dedicated autoupdate server with some sort of XML file