Last Updated: 09/25/2007

Please excuse the blandness of my home page while it is being redesigned and rewritten. Chances are, you are here for one of two reasons:

• You are looking for my Euchre shareware game, Cool Hand Yuke, or
• You are looking for software development utilities for C/C++, Java, PowerBuilder or database development.

If you are here for the Euchre game:

• Go to the Cool Hand Yuke page

If you are here for free software development utilties, these are currently available:

• The ORCAless Interface
• The PBL Touch Utility
• The PBL Query Utility
• The ODButton DLL (to set a commandbutton's background and/or text colors)

About Me:

I have been working professionally in software development since 1990. I cut my programming teeth on SunOS UNIX in 1988 at Michigan State University using C, Assembler, and Common LISP. Once out in the world on my own in 1990, I bought my first PC (a 386 with 1 Mb RAM) and developed my first Euchre game for MS-DOS (click here to see a fun picture). Over the years, I've developed many useful utilities that have saved me countless hours of time with whatever tools I was using at the time. Some of them aren't too relevant anymore, but I plan to keep posting any that may still be a bit relevant.

Regarding the PowerBuilder stuff, I started programming with PowerBuilder version 2.0 once it was released, and developed my first Object Browser using PBORCA in version 3.0, 1994. It was the first 3rd party application to offer global search and replace, as well as the first to support the successful processing of object syntax greater than 64K in the 16-bit world (char far * !!!). It was called PBrowser (not to be confused with PBBrowser ;-). In the late 1990s, I developed a tool called PowerProbe that loaded entire PowerBuilder applications into a database (SQLAnywhere, Sybase or MS SQLServer) to allow queries by class hierarchy, class references, or syntax. A tool was included to generate source code documentation in HTML format from the database as well. As PowerBuilder 7.0 was released and most of the world moved to Java, I stopped development of such utilities. Because I am currently maintaining PowerBuilder applications once again, I'm interested in updating and sharing a few of these tools if others seem to have any interest in them.

If you wish to contact me, please email rob@robertbriggs.com and include a specific reference in the subject line, as I receive lots o' spam.