Fun from the archives! – While going through some old backups at home i found my very first application for a mobile device.

In 2003 i released a solution that I called “NT Services”. The goal was to have an easy access tool to information about a range of servers in a LAN, from anywhere. It was created with web interfaces working for most graphical browsers (Win/*nix/Mac), PocketPC powered PDA’s, and any device that can use the Opera Software SSR (Small Screen Rendering) browser. 

I had at the time just begun to use .NET and C# as my development environment, but because I wanted to get this done fast (I was going on summer vacation and needed access to hosted servers)  and i had 5 years previous experience with Visual Basic, I wrote it using Visual Basic for COM objects and did web and server side code using VBScript. This also became the last thing I ever wrote using this. Continue Reading