Programming

Here are some screen shots of programming I have accomplished while working at Microsoft.

• Money Graphic Engine
• DNS Manager

The rest of this page contains programming I have done during the last few years.

• SkinSkan - Program to measure the skin area on the human body.
• XtraMenu - This was a DOS shell to launch applications.
• MoneyHunter - Program to keep track of investments.
• BigBang - Real-Time Operating System.
• GenoPro - Program to build family trees ( This program is FREE and you are encouraged to download and distribute).
• ROAM - Remote Operation Administration and Management software for a small telephone exchange.

Click here to go to my download area.

SkinSkan

SkinSkan is a program to measure the skin area on the human body.  This program was written in Pascal for the University of Sherbrooke.

How SkinSkan Works?

You enter the circumference of the body for a given height and SkinSkan will compute the skin area.  For instance, at height 29.0cm the circumference of both legs was 71.0 cm.  You need about 18 to 20 measurements to get a 5% accurate answer and about 25 measurements to get a 3% accurate answer.   The calculated area is given in centimeter squared.

You can also enter information about the subject.  To calculate the skin area on hands and feet, a separate computation was performed.  My job was to research and prove SkinSkan was doing a good job measuring the human skin area.  To accomplish this, I had to measure the skin of a wide range of individuals applying a laborious technique.   It turned out SkinSkan was also capable to accurately compute the skin area for individuals with with abnormal growth and/or missing limbs.

XtraMenu

This was my first C++ programming project.  This program has been used by my school, Champlain Regional College, for many years.  Champlain college used XtraMenu for the login shell and screen saver support.

• Can support over 150,000 submenus.
• Easy to install and use.
• Mouse support
• Context-sensitive online help
• Customizable text, colors and sound.
• Screen Saver.  You can even enter an executable (.exe) as the screen saver.
• Password protection /w various security levels.

How XtraMenu works?

XtraMenu is public domain and you can copy and distribute it around.  If you are still using DOS or know someone who does, then give them XtraMenu.  To install, copy all the files in a directory and type "x" at the command promtp.  From there, follow the online help to learn more.  You can download xtramenu.zip (95 KB) and try it yourself.

Money Hunter

This program was written using Borland OWL (Object Windows Library).

• Keep track of multiple storks/investments.
• Display summary of investments.
• Support to copy and paste data to/from an Excel Spreadsheet.
• Customizable charts, fonts and more.

BigBang

This operating system was written during project of Real-Time Operating System course.

The operating system had to be able to run on the following hardware:

• Motorola M68000 microprocessor.
• 32 KB of RAM.
• Terminal CRT display.
• Keyboard.
• Hardware timer.
• No hard disk

I ended up writing 10,000 lines of C code and a few dozen lines of assembly for the I/O routines.

Features:

• Portable.  BigBang could run on both x86 and M68000 processors.
• Dynamic Memory Allocation and separate memory heaps for processes.
• Pre-emptive multitasking with built-in multi-threading.
• Dynamic Thread Priority scheduling.
• Dynamic process and/or thread creation
• Dynamic Binding.  Dynamically link subroutines to other processes.
• Critical sections, semaphores and other synchronization objects.
• Deferred and real-time timing services.
• Nested hardware interrupts.
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Interprocess Communication.
• Built-in Kernel Debugger.  I had to debug the OS and this was the only way to do so.

User Processes:

• Command Decoder.  Process processing keyboard input and executing commands.
• Clock Process.  Process updating the time every second.
• Alphabet Walker.  Process to demo Asynchronous Interprocess Communication via message passing.
• Dining Philosophers.  There are five instances of the dining philosophers.