Philip Wittamore2010-09-05T21:24:45ZPhilip WittamoreCopyright 2010, Philip WittamoreSPHPBLOGThe Bat! vs. Thunderbird Now why would anyone buy The Bat! when free mail clients like Thunderbird exist ?
I work in two languages, English and French. The Bat! allows me to check the language used by the sender, and use the corresponding language template for the reply. A template can contain macros from the hundreds of macros available: set the date in French, clean up the subject line when it has multiple fwd: tags in different languages, quote the senders message and add the senders initials to the quoted line ( for example: PW> blah blah...) adapt the signature, and lots more.
So really the difference for me between The Bat! and Thunderbird is that The Bat! is geared towards professional mail users who don't mind tweaking it to death, whereas Thunderbird is more of a one-size-fits-all solution.
]]>http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100829-1059442010-08-29T00:00:00Z2010-08-29T00:00:00ZFacebook Age]]>http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100808-1918072010-08-08T00:00:00Z2010-08-08T00:00:00ZBack to Powerbasic
I've just finished a demo application in Powerbasic. The original application, a COM client, was written in VB6. The problem I had with duplicating it in Powerbasic is that PB doesn't support safearray's natively. Thankfully a genius by the name of José Roca has worked it out already. His safearray WIN32API is a pure marvel: http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum ... oard=344.0 ]]>http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100801-0838272010-08-01T00:00:00Z2010-08-01T00:00:00ZDefragging your VMultradefrag
]]>http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100728-1746242010-07-28T00:00:00Z2010-07-28T00:00:00ZLe CorniaudAn epic trip from Naples to Bordeaux in a cadillac with gold, heroin and diamonds on board. Music / 2CV scene
When I was a lad I wrote programs in basic on my Sinclair ZX81, As I remember the lack of RAM on this revered ancestor limited any programs to about 10 lines. A subsequent upgrade to the Amstrad CPC offered more memory, and Locomotive Basic, with which I proceeded to write a Morse decoder. It actually worked - I was able to read a few shortwave radio morse messages from the French Navy in Toulon at one point.
Then a PC arrived and Borland's TurboBasic was the killer basic. When Borland stopped distributing it, the original creator, Bob Zale bought it back and renamed it Powerbasic.
Anyway, a couple of years back I bought a version to whip up a quick project demo, and saw that it was full of goodness as it did the job quickly without a steep learning curve.
Winding back to today, Powerbasic has released Version 9, and has added OOP among other things, so I've upgraded for fun and am presently poking around with it.
I just wish I'd had it on my ZX81...
]]>http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100727-1811402010-07-27T00:00:00Z2010-07-27T00:00:00ZGreenhouse Jersey Web Site
My friend Conrad has unfortunately closed his shop, but he continues to spread the green word via his web site, www.greenhousejersey.com
I've revamped the site to make it easier for customers to navigate and select the ecological and free-trade articles he has for sale.
]]>http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100726-1842432010-07-26T00:00:00Z2010-07-26T00:00:00ZVistasource Web Site
Vistasource, Inc's web site. Clean and business-like. I also made a new logo for the company, as the previous one was made in the dot com boom and didn't reflect Vistasource's present status.
]]>http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100726-1502292010-07-26T00:00:00Z2010-07-26T00:00:00ZNew Blogso as Facebook is out of the question, here is my very own blog.
Let's face it, Facebook is turning into an idiot box that eats up much of your productive time as the television. .... Don't forget all the data harvesting that Facebook has been accused of,
