miccheng
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4 years ago Video presentation: https://engineers.sg/v/3920
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miccheng
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4 years ago Video presentation: https://engineers.sg/v/3920
Title: Lessons from coding a old-new app: Slack for Win 3.1
Date(s): 14 Jan 2020
Description:
I built a Win 3.1 app during a company hackathon.
Without the benefit of modern libraries and languages, I had to read up and take care of many low level details, socket programming, HTTP, JSON parsing, UI design in code all under tight memory constraints. Nevertheless, it was a terrific lesson in understanding how things work under the hood.
I'll share my learnings and process for how an old-new app can be created with the aid of modern tools and hindsight of old technologies. And perhaps what lessons can it offer us today.
http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/ https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack
It was Number 1 on Hacker news for a few hours! :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21831951
Profile: I work as an IoT Engineer as SP Digital in the day. Outside of work, I like to repair things and fly private planes for fun. Occasionally, I dabble with retrocomputing stuff.
LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page: https://www.facebook.com/yeokhengmeng https://github.com/yeokm1/ https://twitter.com/yeokm1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/yeokhengmeng/
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