30-IX-2007.
Wrote a little generator yesterday, a gen_setproc.prg, to generate the long „set procedure to“ list, which we often need in Feds. Was just too lazy to repeat the stuff by hand. I see we're using fox 8.0 - we do have the nine, but it'll take some getting organized to distribute the update of runtimes, and to test for any remaining differences. Because there was a case somewhere (some canadian clinic using CAAR) where the executable built with one would almost perfectly run with the other runtime, except there was some minor glitch which was all the harder to catch. But it did vanish when we matched the versions of the runtime and the exe. Speaking about CAAR, this to someone on UA: „Oh it is fun, no doubt there. Including the few times I catch myself speaking Serbian to the keyboard (which is a sure symptom of frustration :), but then the more pleasure when I get it to work. I just wish I had more time to make it all simpler.“
Oh boy, was I right... this all worked, but every change made it more complicated. Over the years I automated lots of stuff about it, and then Jan decided to do it more or less from scratch, as a separate form, after making me do it all in a page in a page of the patient form.
Decided that the old bathtub, kitchen sink and crapper as flowerpots just aren't worth the trouble, after taking out the cubic root (10-V-2006.). So we discarded them. Every other trashday a truck with a picker comes, gets anything that it can catch - old TVs, microwaves, furniture - and loads it. Two of these went easily, the bathtub was just too large and smooth. So we decided to cut it.
Yesterday we tried with a grinder, but I didn't even know there were grinder disks and cutter disks, so used the wrong kind and it got spent before we could make 40cm of cut. And we needed to quarter the tub. So today we tried with the reciprocating saw, using the fine-toothed blade for metal. And it went swimmingly, got the job done in an hour.
The quarters neatly fit into each other - they're all the same rounded corner - and fit into the trashcan at once. American trashcan is about twice as large as ours, by volume.
This trick was reused much later, see 21-II-2016..
Mentions: 10-V-2006., 21-II-2016., CAAR, Feds, fox, Jan Brenkelen, UbiquAgora (UA), in serbian