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DEV Community·Daniel May·20 days ago
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Published on US Mother's Day, 2026. The email arrived on the 4th of December 2006, forwarded by my dad from Bill, an engineer at the company my dad was contracting at. I was 14. Bill had attached a zip file containing an HTML page with PHP scriptlets embedded inline, written by someone at the company four years earlier, plus a sample text dump from a Siemens 9005 digital PBX. The file was named parsebev3.html , after Bev, the user who actually ran the parser every day. There were already three versions of a parser-for-Bev. The job was to make a fourth, in a Windows desktop application. If your son can take a look at this and see how easy it might be to do, I would appreciate it. I think rather than rewrite it as an ASP.Net app it might be better to just create a Windows based .net application. Either VB or C##. I'm sure we could figure out some way to compensate him for his work, talk to Candi. Candi, Bill's wife, was also in the email; she would handle compensation.…

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