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Lots of clouds and intermittent rain sums up the day. Sounds familiar? Well there was a bit more sun and a bit less wind.
I finished off the PCA program, with a single test run. Now I just have to add a few calls to it in other programs. I did build it to the specification but that means it is rather bloated with imo unnecessary data.
(Remember this is on an 80x25 character display, a native terminal (emulation) on AS/400.)
It is a window where the user has to enter a project number to which a certain order has to be assigned. It is either called from a list of orders, all the details needed to recognize an order are available, of from the order entry screen, where the main header data is always displayed. And yet all the header data must be presented in the window as well. This makes the windows so large that it covers the whole area where the underlying screen shows the header data. The result is that data has to be collected form 7 files (extra IO) and converted to display format. Users love it when you needlessly shoot their performance.
The only thing that is actually needed is the field to be entered (and a header-border) in as small a window as possible. This would mean only one file access.
Unluckily it is rather difficult to later remove the extra info than to add it (if you remove things users are accustomed to they demand it back).
<!-- I actually implemented the small window as well, it can be called using a special value in the parameters -->
I intended to get the DNS on my extra domains settled but I didn't find time to do it. Tomorrow should be a bit more relaxed so maybe I get around to it.
I did pick up some of the commotion about the patents granted to Amazon. Brilliant. Just shows how crazy the Americans are. What is the next patent? Could I patent the 'method to express information by way of putting series of characters on a thin cellulose based substrate' ?
Normally not but in America ....
I would license it for a quite reasonable fee of course. Hehe, better than Internet or Linux stock operations.
Adios
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