https://akos.ma/tags/vbscript/Recent content in Vbscript on akos.maHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/filling-the-timesheet-with-htas/Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/filling-the-timesheet-with-htas/If you are currently employed or have worked in the past in a Swiss company, you know how important the all-powerful timesheet is to your employer. Every company comes up with their own version of it, particularly those who are cheap enough not to pay a monthly SaaS subscription to one of those gazillion timesheet services online. Most of those home-made contraptions use Excel, because why not.https://akos.ma/blog/wfh-in-1998/Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/wfh-in-1998/The heated “Work from Home” debate of 2024 brought me back memories of my first programming job, when I joined a small “dotcom” startup in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, and for the first few months of my employment I quite literally worked from home… in 1998.https://akos.ma/blog/conway-in-minimal-basic/Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/conway-in-minimal-basic/Last Monday I released the 59th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, my dear monthly magazine about code, developers, and society, and this month I talked about BASIC in all of its flavors. As part of the preparation of this issue, I dived into the world of Minimal BASIC code, the one with source code line numbers, the one that would start immediately after powering up your computer, and the one that brings endless nostalgia.https://akos.ma/blog/gamma/Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/gamma/Digging in my archives I found a backup of my personal home page from 2000 to 2003, and through a little work of archeology and restoration, I made it work in our modern world of 2023.https://akos.ma/blog/editplus/Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/editplus/Last week I was celebrating the 20 years of my Harman Kardon SoundSticks, but last Monday there was another anniversary that some of us celebrated fondly: EditPlus 1.0, released March 20th, 1998, is 25 years old!https://akos.ma/blog/yup-still-learning-a-new-programming-language-every-year/Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/yup-still-learning-a-new-programming-language-every-year/I gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.https://akos.ma/blog/killer-apps/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/killer-apps/The D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.https://akos.ma/blog/text-editors-for-work/Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/text-editors-for-work/There has been a particular text editor that defined each period of my career as a software developer.https://akos.ma/blog/polyglot-conway/Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/polyglot-conway/My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.https://akos.ma/blog/server-side-javascript-in-1997/Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/server-side-javascript-in-1997/Back in 1997 I was earning some cash writing Active Server Pages in that mutant programming language called VBScript.