RAD – The Software Developer

Why classic Visual Basic needs to be rebuilt from scratch and brought back for a new generation

September 15, 2016 Chris Boss

“We need more coders”, “Everybody needs to learn to code”, “Coding should be a basic requirement in education”, …. Have you heard or read comments similar to these ? What does this have to do with classic Visual Basic ? BASIC and the hobby programmer Why won’t BASIC just die and go away ? Probably most programmers today think this,

EZGUI, the backend to some important industry software !

July 17, 2013 Chris Boss

My GUI Framework, EZGUI, is being used to build some important industry software. In this post I will be highlighting some examples of this you may find interesting. But why would anyone use a GUI framework like EZGUI to build commercial software ? EZGUI was designed specifically for use with the PowerBasic line of compilers. PowerBasic produces fast executing applications

Coding is dead !

September 18, 2012 Chris Boss

Does this sound like a strange thing to say ? I don’t think so and here is why. As a long time WIN32 programmer (using PowerBasic) I at times have tried to look into other programming languages used by the mainstream. I purchased an older version of C# just to play with and decided to watch some beginner videos online