{"id":1524,"date":"2022-12-01T11:31:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2024-09-12T16:31:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T22:31:02","slug":"never-had-to-think-about-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/01\/never-had-to-think-about-this-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Never had to think about this before"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was chatting with a potential client. And they are new to Xojo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I mentioned that I had worked at Xojo Inc for more than 10 years they didn&#8217;t believe me. And they asked for some proof. I had never encountered this before.<br>So here&#8217;s a quick few references where you can see that I was once a member of their development team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xojo XDC <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KkBNXCpzox8?t=83\">2018 Ask the Engineers<\/a><br>Thats me on the far right<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Io6PoAu2pXU?t=44\">XDC 2016 Highlights<\/a> <br>Geoff, the CEO, specifically names me (about 44 seconds in)<br>Later <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Io6PoAu2pXU?t=74\">on thats me at far right<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>XDC 2018 Highlights Video<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KkBNXCpzox8?t=85\"> on thats me at far right<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posts<a href=\"https:\/\/forum.xojo.com\/t\/settings-not-propagating\/47079\/6\"> like<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.xojo.com\/t\/ide-scripting-question\/46055\/15\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.xojo.com\/t\/xojo-ide-reformat-code-script\/43185\/35\">this one<\/a> saying &#8220;Norman fixed &#8230;&#8221;<br>Thats me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Announcements about the FIRST Xojo developer to go to Germany for the <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.xojo.com\/t\/mbs-xojo-conference-2016-in-koblenz-germany\/29150\">MBS Conference<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in the new bug tracking system<a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.xojo.com\/xojoinc\/xojo\/-\/issues\/?sort=updated_desc&amp;state=closed&amp;author_username=normanpalardy1&amp;label_name%5B%5D=Fixed&amp;first_page_size=100\"> issues under @normanpalardy1<\/a><br>Xojo gave me a new account when I departed and renamed my existing one, to normanpalardy1, so as a non-employee I no longer had access to the same cases I did as an employee (Makes sense to me)<br>(They have done the same with other former employees like Greg O&#8217;Lone)<br>Cases like <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.xojo.com\/xojoinc\/xojo\/-\/issues\/53709\">this one<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll see this issue is marked as FIXED by normanpalardy1 &#8211; thats me<br>And there are lots more like that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m sure if you ask in the forums that many users would reply that yes I worked there<br>An I expect Xojo&#8217;s staff would as well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JUST to archive the things I wrote while I worked there &#8211; a list of URLS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/02\/27\/binary-magic-with-signed-integers\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/02\/27\/binary-magic-with-signed-integers\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/02\/12\/how-code-one-liners-can-make-debugging-harder\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/02\/12\/how-code-one-liners-can-make-debugging-harder\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/01\/28\/if-vs-if-and-conditional-compilation\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/01\/28\/if-vs-if-and-conditional-compilation\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/01\/24\/some-follow-up-regarding-byref\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/01\/24\/some-follow-up-regarding-byref\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/01\/23\/byref-vs-reference-types\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2019\/01\/23\/byref-vs-reference-types\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/12\/12\/what-kind-of-variable-are-you\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/12\/12\/what-kind-of-variable-are-you\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/12\/04\/are-your-macos-apps-ready-for-64-bit\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/12\/04\/are-your-macos-apps-ready-for-64-bit\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/06\/03\/which-dlls-can-i-move-and-where\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/06\/03\/which-dlls-can-i-move-and-where\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/05\/14\/getting-the-mysql-server-version\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/05\/14\/getting-the-mysql-server-version\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/03\/14\/code-tip-be-careful-with-loops\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/03\/14\/code-tip-be-careful-with-loops\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/02\/12\/setting-constants\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/02\/12\/setting-constants\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/01\/25\/supporting-multiple-cores\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2018\/01\/25\/supporting-multiple-cores\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other links that show I was engaged byXojo <br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2016\/10\/11\/xdc-2016-recap\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2016\/10\/11\/xdc-2016-recap\/<\/a><br>alternate &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161117055842\/https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2016\/10\/11\/xdc-2016-recap\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161117055842\/https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2016\/10\/11\/xdc-2016-recap\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2015\/03\/11\/xojotalk-009-its-my-dog\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2015\/03\/11\/xojotalk-009-its-my-dog\/<\/a><br>alternate &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230324163333\/https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2015\/03\/11\/xojotalk-009-its-my-dog\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230324163333\/https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2015\/03\/11\/xojotalk-009-its-my-dog\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2014\/09\/10\/6-years-and-still-ticking\/\">https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2014\/09\/10\/6-years-and-still-ticking\/<\/a><br>alternate &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201204173921\/https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2014\/09\/10\/6-years-and-still-ticking\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201204173921\/https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2014\/09\/10\/6-years-and-still-ticking\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was chatting with a potential client. And they are new to Xojo. When I mentioned that I had worked at Xojo Inc for more than 10 years they didn&#8217;t believe me. And they asked for some proof. I had never encountered this before.So here&#8217;s a quick few references where you can see that I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/01\/never-had-to-think-about-this-before\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Never had to think about this before&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}