jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Jul 14 10:28:49 CDT 2012
Nice tablet! John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 7/14/2012 10:11 AM, Stuart McLachlan wrote: > Talking of new toys... > > I've just bought myself a Motorola Xoom. > > We've been using them for recording and emailing results for the PNG National Elections. > Some else wrote the application to do that and I've written a system in PowerBasic/Access to > automagically collect the emails, strip out the results, store them in the database, print out a > copy on receipt and send updates to the website at http://results.pngec.gov.pg. The Access > app also generated various printouts/reports. > > Having seen what the tablets can do, I decided that I really had to learn to program them. > I've found a neat tool called Basic4Android and installed all the necessary bits but haven't > really started learning to use it yet. It looks like a great way to develop Android apps for > anyone with VBA/PB etc skills. > > I've spent the last couple of days playing with the Xoom and downloading various free > tools/apps. > > All I can say is - WOW! I love it. MS are really going to have to work to make a dent with > Win8 for tablets. >