Software products
This is my incomplete list of commercial software products for various client SMEs, which I developed as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) from 1993 until 2006, as Alpha Beta Computing, Insertable Objects, and Wizzer, respectively.
- Wizzer Studio (2001-2004) was an ambitious Application Platform that was unfortunately never publicly released as part of a software product, apart from several pilot applications for Physiotherapy and Property Appraisal (a.k.a. TAX 2004), among others. Too far ahead of its time;-) It was a completely binary modular platform for vertical Wizard-based software solutions by providing standardised ActiveX control interfaces with standard components for interactive dashboards, standard answers, A4-paper report printing, license management, and tree-based navigation, and more, all defined from a desktop database.
- AOG 2005 - Taxatierapport Agrarisch & Onroerend Vastgoed (2006) was the final software version in a long series of appraisal programmes with a cross-platform, template-based HTML printing engine, among many other features. This is to date the only product software available to appraise agrarian property in the Netherlands.
- TAX 2002 - Financieringstaxatie Woonruimte (2003) for house appraisers had around 75 happy customers at the time of its last update in 2005. The previous version was called TAX 2000.
- JM BackOffice for recruitment agencies (2003) has been in use for years at a few SME's in the employee services sector.
- IP-location mapping configuration client (2001) was my first STL-only C++ project.
- Fake-IP browser report (2000) was an ip-address-related feasibility study.
- IP-location mapping COM client (2000) was a COM object running under the Windows system account accessible from other Windows services. I found several Window NT4 Server bugs doing this project, unfortunately. One of the climaxes must have been the one time that I finally got a third-level support reply from Redmond stating that I should rewrite my library to not use the Microsoft library...
- TAX! 99 - Financieringstaxatie Woonruimte (1999) was the forerunner of the series of appraisal programmes listed above.
- Transparant - Multimedia CD-ROM (1999) --designed for Internet Explorer-- is an interactive HTML-based production. It is part of the "Transparant" History method for highschool students and seems to be still available.
Insertable Objects packages (1997-2002) are collections of MFC ActiveX controls which make up the componentised functionality of most of the applications above. Over the years components in the following categories were developed and deployed:
- Information Retrieval Services (FreeText)
- Open Database Connectivity Services (ODBC)
- Text Processing Services (Text)
- File System Services (File)
- General Purpose Utilities (Utility)
- User Interface Services (Window)
- Backward Compatibility Services (Legacy)
- XyMAGIC (1997) is a C/C++ wrapper library for the XyINDEX API library and gateway to the Magic Software RDBMS.
Finally, I made several freeware utility programmes (which I won't make available here as they've outlived their purpose by now) such as the following:
- Mail Agent: A Windows systemtray programme which periodically checks all your email addresses for new messages.
- Replace: A Windows systemwide Search & Replace programme.