If you wonder how the classic Bubble Sort works, below is a nice illustration
(the fun starts at ~50 seconds.) Advanced students, make sure to view the Selection Sort.
For those interested in future releases of our programs...
Sometimes customers surprise me...
They see the "tag line" of my email (Support the Fight against Alzheimer's disease!, see also this post) and decide to help.
A few days ago, I received this:
Jon Lee (xxxxx@oefi.org) wrote: > Just thought you might want to know that we made a donation . it > is because of your simple email to me about your mother, Alzheimer feels more personal. > Thank you for making me more aware of this disorder. > > Jon Lee II > > Director of Information Technology > Operating Engineers Funds Inc. > 100 E. Corson St., Pasadena, CA 91103 > > > From: Linda Hughes > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:21 PM > To: Jon Lee II (xxxxx@oefi.org) > Subject: Golf Donation > > > Congratulations! Mr. Graydon has selected Alzheimer's > Association of So. California to receive a donation of $2,000 from > the tournament proceeds. > > If you have a personal contact which you would like the donation to > go to, please let me know asap as I will be sending out the check > by Friday, May 13, 2011. > > Thank you for the charitable suggestion. > > > Linda E. Hughes > Tournament Coordinator > IUOE Local 12 Charity Golf Tournament > P. O. Box 7063, Pasadena, CA 91109
A big Thank You to the Operating Engineers Funds Inc. for their donation!
> Thank you for making me more aware of this disorder.
I wonder.... Is that what is lacking? Awareness? I used to ignore Alzheimer's, even make fun of it. If this was an illness affecting young people, I bet research would get all the funds it needs.
Just for a minute, try to imagine it is your mother who is the patient... After that search google for the Alzheimer support group in your country and make a small donation.
As a small business we look to reduce administrative tasks as much as possible. Document scanning is one of those necessary functions that tends to be labor intensive especially when it needs to be shared by multiple people. We wanted to centralize scanning to a single inexpensive all-in-one device and automate document delivery to the proper person to ensure privacy.
Our all-in-one can send documents to an FTP server but we had no automated way of downloading and sending the scan. Using WatchFTP we created tasks to download the documents from the FTP server and email them to the right person. The entire process is now automated with a couple off button presses on the scanner.
Matthew Krieger
Cober electronics, Inc.
We just released a new version of WatchFTP, our tool to monitor FTP sites for new files. This is a free upgrade for all WatchFTP customers, just download and install the latest version from our website.
WatchFTP is available in English, German, Spanish and French.
WatchFTP downloads new files from your FTP server and can also "cleanup" after downloading: remove the files from the FTP server after download.
Several customers requested a "delay" for this removal, delete the file after X hours instead of immediately. This is now implemented in this new beta. We expect to release this new version in one or two weeks.
The beta download is available on our forum here.
This will be a free upgrade for all customers, just install "on top" of your current release.
I almost forgot to honor one of my heroes, Ronald Reagan. Here in Holland there is not much news about this Great President of the USA, our press in Holland seems to forget that the fall of the wall would never have happened without him (and Gorbachev).
The last years of his life, Mr Reagan suffered from Altzheimer's disease, a terrible illness affecting one of the things separating us from animals: our brain.
In one of his last letters to the American nation, he said:
I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease... At the moment I feel just fine. I intend to live the remainder of the years God gives me on this earth doing the things I have always done... I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. May God always bless you.
... I am not sure what to say ...
She will be 80 soon and asked for donations to the Dutch Alzheimer support group instead of presents (she already has everything, grand-child nearby and a loving husband taking care of all her needs).
GdP Software will donate all February earnings to the Dutch Alzheimer Stichting. Mom, I love you!
Please help fight this terrible disease! Support your local Alzheimer support group! For example The American Alzheimer's Association.
On our forum we have a new beta for WatchFTP 2.4. See this post for download links and all details.
Here is an example how you can check if a WatchDirectory task is running from inside a batch script. The example relies on Microsoft's Handle.exe to check if there is a wdrun.exe process that has the history database of the given task open.
@echo off rem this example script checks if a WatchDirectory task is running rem usage: rem wdIsTaskRunning abc rem this checks if the task abc is running rem rem This script uses Handle.exe ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655 ) rem to see if the history.db file of the task is opened by a wdrun.exe process. rem SET HANDLE=C:\SysInternals\Handle.exe SET TMPFILE=C:\Temp\handle_%RANDOM%.txt "%HANDLE%" -p wdrun.exe \%1\history.db > "%TMPFILE%" FINDSTR /L /C:"No matching handles found." "%TMPFILE%">NUL if %errorlevel% equ 0 ( echo The task %1 is NOT running SET TASKRUNNING=N ) else ( echo The task %1 is running SET TASKRUNNING=Y ) del "%TMPFILE%"
The script above works for all WatchDirectory tasks but it needs Admin privileges to run handle.exe. If the task is configured to run as a Windows Service, you can also parse the output of the NET START command to see if the task is running.
@echo off rem this example script checks if a WatchDirectory task is running rem usage: rem wdIsTaskRunning abc rem this checks if the task abc is running rem rem SET TMPFILE=C:\Temp\netstart_%RANDOM%.txt NET START > "%TMPFILE%" FINDSTR /L /E /C:"watchDirectory:%1" "%TMPFILE%">NUL if %errorlevel% equ 0 ( echo The task %1 is running SET TASKRUNNING=Y ) else ( echo The task %1 is NOT running SET TASKRUNNING=N ) del "%TMPFILE%"
We just released version 1.5 of our WxRemote software. WxRemote shows you the status of your WatchDirectory and WatchFTP tasks on other computers, allowing you to start and stop tasks remotely.
This release includes a small webserver, allowing you to use your smart phone or browser to manage your tasks.
For more info and download link, see the WxRemote Webpage.
We just released a new version of WatchDirectory. New in this version:
You can download the new version from our download page.
This release is a free update for all v4.x customers. Just install it "on top" of your current version so it will keep your settings and tasks.
000010 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000020 PROGRAM-ID. NEWYEAR2011. 000040 AUTHOR. GERT. 000050 000100 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000200 CONFIGURATION SECTION. 000210 SOURCE-COMPUTER. GERT-LAPTOP. 000230 000300 DATA DIVISION. 000310 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 000320 01 TEKST1 PIC X(80) 000330 VALUE "WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS,". 000340 01 TEKST2 PIC X(80) 000350 VALUE "AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!". 000410 01 IX PIC S9(5) COMP-3. 000420 000500 PROCEDURE DIVISION. 000710 PERFORM VARYING IX FROM 1 TO 3 000720 DISPLAY TEKST1 000730 END-PERFORM. 000740 DISPLAY TEKST2. 000760 STOP RUN.
It has been some time ago I wrote COBOL for a living, please forgive me if it doesn't compile ;-)
(thanks to Jan Frut for the inspiration for the program above).
This new year we plan to bring our program WatchDirectory to the current technology level. No, don't worry, WatchDirectory isn't written in COBOL ;-) It is written with Microsoft C++, but a rather old version of their compiler.
You can expect several new WatchDirectory releases this year where we will have spent a lot of time on improving our toolset (compiler and other tools). We will obviously also implement nice new features and plugins, but the new tools will at first be quite invisible for you.
One thing that will be possible with those new compiler/tools is to create a 64bit version of WatchDirectory. The current (32bit) version runs fine on Windows 64, but to keep up with all future Windows improvements we need a 64bit version.
The COBOL program as a batch script ;-)
SET GREET1=We wish you a merry Christmas, SET GREET2=And a Happy New Year! Call :DoGreet1 ECHO %GREET2% GOTO :EOF :DoGreet1 SET COUNT=0 :DoGreet1_Again SET /A COUNT=COUNT + 1 IF %COUNT% GTR 3 GOTO :EOF ECHO %GREET1% GOTO :DoGreet1_Again
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