Monthly Archives: November 2009

Design Patterns and COBOL

Posted on November 29, 2009 by spgennard

As part of my working life I happy to say I use COBOL and for better or worse it is here to stay. With this in mind it annoys me I here/see saying things such as COBOL is a old … Continue reading →

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Valliant ecoTEC – Fault F.22

Posted on November 27, 2009 by spgennard

Our boiler at home today decided to display a “F22 0.2” message, at the same time I noticed it also had a low water pressure. Which I suspect was caused by myself bleeding the radiators of air the previous night, … Continue reading →

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VIM and GO

Posted on November 25, 2009 by spgennard

Getting started with GO and vim As a developer who lives most of his life on my Mac with vi/vim, I was happy to see the GO distribution includes vim colourisation for .go, files ..but it was installed.. so.. To … Continue reading →

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El Parador and the Choocolate Line

Posted on November 25, 2009 by spgennard

Dear Webblog Diary Last friday night we spent the night in London and we found a really good little Spanish Tapas restaurant and I thought I would share it… just because we enjoyed it soo much.. The place is called … Continue reading →

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GO Baby GO..

Posted on November 24, 2009 by spgennard

As someone who works with ‘C’, MSIL and Java bytecode to write system level software for our compilers and runtime, I was nicely surprised to see that someone has produced a new language aim at ‘System Level Programming’. Let me … Continue reading →

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Type Safety and COBOL

Posted on November 24, 2009 by spgennard

Having read a recent bog about COBOL and type-safety, I though I would jot down some comments. ANS85 COBOL is naturally is type-unsafe due as every data item being part of one memory region (or storage area), because of this … Continue reading →

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Base Class Library, Arrays, Queues and Stacks

Posted on November 19, 2009 by spgennard

Continuing the series of blogs about COBOL and the .Net base class library… The .Net base class library has a wealth classes and an huge of amount of methods/properties. The .Net base class library has a key handy namespace that … Continue reading →

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Detecting the use Mono CLR dynamically

Posted on November 17, 2009 by spgennard

While developing something that could be used on Mono on Windows, Mono on Unix and on Windows with Microsoft’s CLR, I needed to be sensitive to the environment but didn’t want to conditionally compile my code different. So I put … Continue reading →

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Arrays and the .Net Base Cass Library

Posted on November 13, 2009 by spgennard

Carrying on from the previous blog, the user of iterators in .Net and especially .Net on COBOL can be very useful. When CLR v2.0 was introduced a few new methods in System.IO.File for block reading/writing files were introduced, these works … Continue reading →

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TechEd 2009 – Keynote with Jazon and Mark

Posted on November 12, 2009 by spgennard

My boss (Mark Conway) the other day was lucky enough to demonstrate some of the wonders of next release at TechEd 2009 in the keynote with Jazon Zander’s entitled: “Visual Studio 2010: New Challenges, New Solutions” The demo shows off … Continue reading →

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