Maurice Calvert
1972 was a an important year for computing, that saw the creation of ATARI, Pong, the C language, Intel’s 8008, the first HP scientific calculator, ARPANET and Nord-5, the first 32-bit supermini computer. It was also the year in which I wrote my first program and became a geek, both of which are unimportant.
Languages have always interested me and over the years I’ve dabbled in most: Assembler, Fortran, PL/1, APL, COBOL, Ada, Prolog, Rexx, Javascript, Pascal and every dialect of Basic. I’ve never written a line of C or Java, and never will; these days VB.NET and SQL suffice for all my needs.
In the real world I get by with English, French and broken Russian. Home is Geneva, Switzerland, where I live with my wife and two grown-up boys.
You can find more about me on my web-site: https://www.calvert.ch/maurice/.
Here is a list of my recent posts:
- Building a Real-Time Data server: Utility functions; building help, part 12, 27 Jan 2011
- Building a Real Time Data server: Changing the Excel RTD Throttle Interval, part 11, 26 Jan 2011
- Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Creating the Setup project, part 10, 25 Jan 2011
- Building a Real Time Data server: Embedding a GoogleMap page in an Excel Task Pane, part 9, 24 Jan 2011
- Building a Real Time Data for Excel: Avoiding Application Domain misery, part 8, 21 Jan 2011
- Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Talking to the GoogleMaps APIs, part 7, 20 Jan 2011
- Building an Excel Real Time Data server: Providing easy-to-read function names, part 6, 19 Jan 2011
- Building a Real Time Data: Excel, multithreading and callbacks, part 5, 18 Jan 2011
- Building a Real Time Data for Excel: Architecture, part 4, 17 Jan 2011
- Building a Real Time Data for Excel: How RTD servers work, part 3, 14 Jan 2011
- Building a Real Time Data server for Excel: Avoiding VSTO, part 2, 13 Jan 2011
- Building a Real-Time Data server for Excel, part 1, 12 Jan 2011