About Me
I started programming in 1964, at age 18, which makes me slightly
older than dirt. I am British by birth and Canadian by choice
and have two passports and I am a baby boomer. I currently live
in Bangkok, Thailand, because there's no snow, the food and people
are wonderful, there's no snow, and the cost of living is quite
low. Did I mention there's no snow?
My preferred programming language is Visual Basic 6, not to
be confused with the abomination currently referred to as Visual
Basic.Net, which is a totally different language and has nothing
to do with Visual Basic.
VB6 creates highly efficient programs, is easily written and
maintained, and is not supported any more by Microsoft because
they want all developers to pay loads of money to switch to Visual
Studio dot Net, at least for now. In a few years they will decide
they are not making enough money from dot Net and drop it in
favour of something else, thereby making hundreds of thousands
of programmers angry once again. Such is life in a Microsoft
world.
All of my software is written with maintainability in mind.
Each program contains built-in debugging which can be turned
on if necessary; the resulting debugging trace can be e-mailed,
is highly detailed, is very readable, and allows me to quickly
find problems.
I also have a quality assurance and software testing site
at Software Testing Concepts, as well as a software
testing blog. I have made loads of money managing testing
projects.
I have worked on contract with the OECD in Paris, on a research
satellite contract with NASA, many software testing projects
in Australia and Canada, and have owned a computer store and
four companies.
I am a nit-picker for details and spend many hours a day programming.
I use my own software, and if I am not happy with something,
I fix it. My policy is to provide free fixes and updates until
I either go blind or die, which will hopefully be a while yet.
If you like my software, tell your friends. If you find a
problem, or there is something you don't like, tell me. I listen.
And I fix.
Doug Anderson
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