Cory Smith

'The only bug free software is dead software.' (#entrepreneur, #microsoft #visualbasic #dotnet, #radio #broadcasting, #motorcycle, #jkd #jeetkunedo)

[Cory Smith @DualBrain]

Someone came up to me after the presentation and said:

"Those pictures of the kids weren't just any kids, right?"

I responded, "You caught that, did you?"

He confirmed and told me he was whispering that "those aren't just any kids" to his friend during the presentation.

[Cory Smith @DualBrain]

VCFSW 2025 WAS AWESOME!

The video of my presentation has been posted...

https://t.co/Arv4I0IbsY

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https://t.co/WgmD8BWcwE

YES... YES... YES... YES... and YES!!!!

As a father of two young girls who are directly impacted by the current experiment... and as someone deeply involved in technology for over 30 years; I can 100% agree with every... single... word... she said!

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@CoinPriceTag @AvaloniaUI Thank you, good to hear someone appreciates the efforts.

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Certainly not implying it's of *production quality* at this point, but passing along that @AvaloniaUI templates for #visualbasic now available in source form at https://t.co/OTOhrbyIfO ; will will publish as nuget packages after some time for testing and (hopefully) feedback.

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Is a "one-time pin" really a one time pin if you have to repeat the process every time you authenticate? Is this the seriously the best thing that *smart people* could think of? Every time I go through the process I feel like I'm being a bit insulted... or is that just me?

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@realDotNetDave Welcome to the party, pal!

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@salelele It is a desktop application that (hopefully) will run on Windows and Linux (possibly macOS). No emulator required. And the goal is to reproduce the original as much as possible.

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Posit the question... what if there were a *true* replacement to QBasic? What would that look like? How fast could it run? What would the overall Edit/Run (F5) experience be? Here's a sneak peek at what could be...

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@ejsmith Don't you know it! (And, yes, there's some GORILLA gaming in the future.)

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What is this voodoo... (about 3 weeks of work, that's what)🤪

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@chrisjohnson_nz I see some of the comments somewhat "justifying" the *steps backward* due to the technology changing. In the end it's all about driving pixels to the screen, push/pull data from a storage medium and accepting user input. So, really, there isn't any excuse.

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@Tyrrrz And if you don't get it right... ye shall be mocked. For what it's worth, this problem doesn't exist in #visualbasic. ;-) #stabilityisafeature

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You know... you have to give it to a project maintainer that is attempting to educate a group on how there's no interest by a particular community when several from that very community are actively engaged in that very conversation. #visualbasic #dotnet #notdeadyet

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@richcampbell I've definitely been there... thank you git/@github for the many rescues they've provided over the past recent years for situations just like this. ;-)

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@grokys @AvaloniaUI @OpenSilverTeam This is great! However, doesn't address the vocal negativity toward #visualbasic by members within the @avaloniaui community. CLR/CLS/CLI is about language diversity and choice; VB developers should not be made to feel bad for their choice because it doesn't match your choice.

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@AvaloniaUI is a great looking platform; however, it seems to be filled with those that that believe that "#visualbasic is dead". And it's too bad... it's so very close to welcoming us - limited only to what appears to be a people problem. At least the @OpenSilverTeam loves us!

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@richcampbell Been there... many a time. :-(

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@MStrehovsky Yes... yes it is. ;-) Not able to ultimate small file size in comparison; but as a consolation prize... native on Windows and Linux!

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@MStrehovsky This is AWESOME!!!! stuff! Wonders to self if this is possible using #visualbasic... hmmmmm...

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@MStrehovsky Awesome article. Earlier I commented that I wondered if it was possible to do this sort of stuff in #visualbasic. Why YES... yes you can! Not able to use bflat to get to the smallest size - but my VB version also runs on Linux; at about 2mb. 🤯