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[Wo?]Man, little "apps" like that built using Excel or Access or VB with drag and drop RUN THE WORLD. I worked at a few BigCos, and they were riddled with thing

by notJim 14y ago

[Wo?]Man, little "apps" like that built using Excel or Access or VB with drag and drop RUN THE WORLD. I worked at a few BigCos, and they were riddled with things like that, where some enterprising person realized computers are better at tedium than people, and learned just barely enough programming to make something to make their job easier.

AYBABTME 14y ago
I didn't know any programming (aside from Assembly, but that's another story!) when I initially started doing this! When I caught on, I kept going, fuelled by my anger against the older folks in my team who couldn't type fast enough, putting in jeopardy lives of casualties on the ground who were waiting for a chopper to bring them to the hospital. The ugly mess of MEDEVAC things you see there, replaced a 15 minutes process of: measuring on a map, computing on a calculator and manually typing things on the computer; with just a dozen of clicks and consistent, reliable and precise information. Now, I learnt a whole lot since 2010, so this is not quite representative of products I would produce nowadays. Oh and I'm a man; Antoine is a French name solely used for men. ;)
- rdl 14y ago
  If this was the tool at KAF, thank you for writing it! (a friend of mine was a CF doctor there, and I spent some time in radiology getting the US PACS stuff integrated with the Canadian stuff)
  - AYBABTME 14y ago
    I know it was used at TFK for I was there and originally, at that time, we were the only unit operating around KAF (aside from the defence team of KAF itself). Later our area of operation got split in half and shared with TF Striker, a US mechanized brigade. I shared my tool with them and I know my counterpart in their brigade HQ used them, but I don't know for how long as I left a little later. For a period between April 2010 and Sept 2010 (maybe going later than that), all of TFK's MEDEVAC, which must have accounted for over 70% of MEDEVACs in KAF, were fulfilled using this tool.

by notJim 14y ago

AYBABTME 14y ago

I didn't know any programming (aside from Assembly, but that's another story!) when I initially started doing this! When I caught on, I kept going, fuelled by my anger against the older folks in my team who couldn't type fast enough, putting in jeopardy lives of casualties on the ground who were waiting for a chopper to bring them to the hospital. The ugly mess of MEDEVAC things you see there, replaced a 15 minutes process of: measuring on a map, computing on a calculator and manually typing things on the computer; with just a dozen of clicks and consistent, reliable and precise information. Now, I learnt a whole lot since 2010, so this is not quite representative of products I would produce nowadays. Oh and I'm a man; Antoine is a French name solely used for men. ;)

rdl 14y ago
If this was the tool at KAF, thank you for writing it! (a friend of mine was a CF doctor there, and I spent some time in radiology getting the US PACS stuff integrated with the Canadian stuff)
- AYBABTME 14y ago
  I know it was used at TFK for I was there and originally, at that time, we were the only unit operating around KAF (aside from the defence team of KAF itself). Later our area of operation got split in half and shared with TF Striker, a US mechanized brigade. I shared my tool with them and I know my counterpart in their brigade HQ used them, but I don't know for how long as I left a little later. For a period between April 2010 and Sept 2010 (maybe going later than that), all of TFK's MEDEVAC, which must have accounted for over 70% of MEDEVACs in KAF, were fulfilled using this tool.