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Getting Ages Right - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Feb 2012
Determining people's ages at events is fun. For me, it's again grassroots. I have to add low-level code and think though logic and develop algorithms to do it.
Why not just subtract one internal date from another? It's not quite that simple. You have to figure out date ranges. Then you have to subtract the ...
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Build a BetterGEDCOM or learn GEDCOMBetter? - Blog comment by lkessler - 24 Feb 2012
Stanczyk:
There are as many "answers" as there are people. We each have our opnions. That's why a standard is so tough - because everyone has to compromise.
The difference with SQL is that enhancements can often be added to specific implementations without worry. Usually the SQL code does not get ...
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Build a BetterGEDCOM - Forum post by lkessler in Questions and Answers - 22 Feb 2012
BetterGEDCOM is probably stalled, not by FHISO and the necessity to make the new organization legal and give it structure, but probably by the effects of GEDCOMX and RootsTech interrupting matters. Once FHISO is legally underway, I'm sure they'll take a coordinating role, and use the BetterGEDCOM moniker to ...
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Build a BetterGEDCOM or learn GEDCOMBetter? - Blog comment by lkessler - 22 Feb 2012
Brett,
I think who wins as the future GEDCOM is very much up in the air. There have been dozens of proposals to date that never caught on. And there's several new initiatives now, and each may get to some point of usability, or may not.
People don't realize how much time and work it takes to develop a new ...
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Endless Possibilities - Blog comment by lkessler - 22 Feb 2012
I intend to keep up with the development of any new standard. I'm involved with BetterGEDCOM and GEDCOMX and am staying up-to-date with all the progress towards a new GEDCOM. Writing the input and output for any new standard is not difficult, and that could be done in not too long a time, maybe a month.
But ...
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Endless Possibilities - Blog entry by lkessler - 21 Feb 2012
A wonderful software program doesn’t just get developed. It iterates and builds. It expands upon its concepts and enhances them. It refigures how to redo parts of itself based on the experience of its use and makes things better. It isn’t created wonderful, but it evolves into wonderful. You look at your ...
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Build a BetterGEDCOM or learn GEDCOMBetter? - Blog comment by lkessler - 17 Feb 2012
Thanks, Kulath,
With the new BetterGEDCOM and now GEDCOM X work being done, I'm trying to stress that they attempt simplicity rather than complicated models attempting to include everything. They attempt to include everything because they think that this will allow the data to be transferred, but by doing so ...
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Sorting It Out - Blog entry by lkessler - 16 Feb 2012
In my past life as a Computer Chess programmer, I became quite an expert in developing data structures, implementing algorithms and heuristics, and optimizing programs to the n’th degree. So doing something like sorting the events within a person in Behold shouldn’t have been much of a problem. It’s very ...
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Literally Nothing From RootsMagic - Blog comment by lkessler - 13 Feb 2012
Brett:
Thanks for posting this here. If I may add for the readers a few important things that you pointed out to me in your emails to me about this:
FTM 2010 could not read this file because it says it is GEDCOM Version 5.5.1 and FTM gave the message: "GEDCOM file must be version 5.5 or greater". Hmmm. ...
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RootsTech Day 1 - Blog comment by lkessler - 24 Feb 2012