This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.
Wow, the summer’s over and I’m finally home!
After spending the last five months in New York (quite a difference from my native Florida), I’ve finally made it back home. Much has happened while I’ve been away, not the least of which is the death of Imspire and a few related projects. While giving up on these dreams has been difficult, I believe the result will be for the best.
I love software and the software industry, but an ISV is a far larger undertaking than I ever dreamed. I spent probably a year and a half of preparation followed by six months of intense work on the business, just to find I wasn’t even close to ready. Letting go was a hard thing to do, but with no income and raising expenses, I had little choice.
Now that I’m free from the bounds of starting a business, I can spend more time on other (new) projects as well as put a new spin on some old ones. Projects such as 4HowTo.com, though not much of a money maker, it still has some potential, those with less potential will be scrapped. I expect to eliminate all but a couple projects, and do something I’ve not done before: do business in my own name.
I would like to take a second to think the many people that have helped with Imspire, while there are too many names to list, here are a few that deserve special attention: Zach Tong, Max Schmeling, Chris Stelmarski, Gavin Olsen and last but not least Mike Redding. Thank you all, your effort was and is greatly appreciated.
I plan on doing what I’ve always done, though on a smaller scale, I’ll continue to develop software and build web sites, I’m no longer interested in this as a business, though hopefully I’ll find a way to make enough to justify my time. There may be a few new projects, but not as large or as complex as some of those planned earlier. Hopefully this will allow me to complete and perfect more, and see less die in a sea of neglected projects.
I plan on making this site far more active, as I’ll no longer be focusing on the Imspire site, this will receive far more attention. (At least that’s the idea).
As a result of my extended absence, all of my MSN buddy lists have been cleared, so if you use MSN I’ll be posting a new MSN name in the next couple days.
Note: I’ll spell check this and clean it up in a couple days, once my net connection & computer are back the way they should be.
(Disclaimer: This is something of a rant, and was written at 3AM. My apologies if it doesn’t make sense. Feel free to ignore.)
It’s 3AM, and I’m up reading, again. Is it the latest great novel or one of the classics that I enjoy so much? No, it’s research for my latest hobby. It’s lasers this time, but this pattern is far from new.
I’m starting to think I just try to do too much, I go in too many different directions.
This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.
Visual Basic provides a less than elegant method of saving data in the Windows registry, the GetSetting & SaveSetting functions. These functions store setting in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\<AppName>\<Section> not very pretty is it?
The APISettings module is a drop-in replacement using pure Win32 API for its processing power and increased stability. The reason for developing this and for making it drop-in compatible is to all those new to the Win32 API to add its functionality with minimal difficulty.
This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.
I was actually rather lucky to have this brand of WinModem, as the good people over at Linuxant.com offer a very high quality driver that makes installation a breeze! But, they have recently changed their marketing methods and charge $15 for the driver, so these really lives no viable, free alternative (a rarity to say the least for linux).
This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.
This is a useful function to close a program based on a windows caption, this should work for any top-level window. Paste all this into a standard module, save it. Then call CloseApp("Notepad") or whatever the name of the window is, it’s nice & simple and should close the program instantly.
This requires Windows 2000 plus, for older versions of Windows a different method is required, that isn’t covered here, seeing as Windows 2000 and better require special privileges to forcefully close a program.
During a recent discussion about the DarkMatter CA on a Mozilla mailing list, it was found that their 64-bit serial numbers weren’t actually 64 bits, and it opened a can of worms. It turns out that the serial number was effectively 63 bits, which is a violation of the CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements that state it must contain 64 bits of output from a secure random number generator (CSPRNG). As a result of this finding, 2,000,000 certificates or more may need to be replaced by Google, Apple, GoDaddy and various others.
