Re: Thin Clients

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Several years ago I decided that VARPG would survive and Java would not, 
so I learned VARPG.  Oh well.  :)

In the process I realized that there are huge design differences between 
event driven and cycle driven design.  Applying cycle solutions to an 
event driven method is just a horrible choice.   Paul is absolutely 
right with what he says, in my opinion.  I believe that where we have 
failed our masters is that we have not understood the difference in 
designs well enough for us to show off the possibilities well.  Being 
able to transfer green screen thinking to a web browser will look like 
lipstick on a pig.

Again, my opinion, but I believe we need to learn a lot more about the 
design issues if we want to truly use GUI interfaces.  I do not mean the 
graphics, but the way we present and retrieve information and how we 
communicate to the user.  Drill downs, use of colors, mouse-overs, and 
the order of processing data.  We need to understand type-ahead fields, 
radio buttons, icon use instead of menus, drag & drop, and updating one 
window from another window.  These are the things that work and provide 
huge training benefits and gains.    Productivity can move up, too, if 
we do it right.

Trevor Perry wrote:
> I see the problem!! You forgot to include an iPhone in the solution...
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> The thing is, you are larger than me - height-wise, so I am actually scared
> of you! :-) Still, I will keep at you until your brain recovers from that
> mold problem...
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> On 9/13/07 2:05 PM, "Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > C'mon. I'd love to be able to get paid to do this stuff. In fact, I've got a
> > client for whom we wrote an application 6 or 7 years ago to let the foremen
> > enter the time into a Palm Pilot all day long. At the end of the day, they
> > would connect the Palm Pilot to their cell phones and hit the transmit icon
> > on the screen. The program then turned the phone into a modem, and the data
> > was transferred straight into their i. They paid for the application within
> > a year. 
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> > They wanted to expand the application, and they paid a PC programmer to
> > assist me in porting the app over to laptops. The app is working perfectly,
> > but because the construction industry in Michigan has sucked for the last
> > few years, they don't have the budget to spend money on laptops for their 9
> > foremen. Maybe Larry Bolhuis needs to get out there and tear up some roads
> > or something.
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> > There's all kinds of things I've proposed, so it's not me. It's that
> > particular industry. Stop picking on me, you big bully.........   :-))
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