About jim_lawless Top Coder Competition Ranking # 441 of 50,769   Raw Score Total: 5,500.00 Name:  jim_lawless (see 5 ratings)   in Council Bluffs, Iowa United States Seller / Coder Rating:  10 (Excellent) Sign up date:  Aug 18, 2002 2:38:11 PM EDT Last Logged In:  Aug 10, 2003 11:59:49 AM EDT Jobs Started:  5 Jobs Completed:  5 Missed Status Report Warnings Issued:  0 Arbitrations Lost:  0 (out of 0 Arbitrations) What is arbitration?       Post a new project exclusively for jim_lawless   Invite jim_lawless to bid on one of my existing projects    Send jim_lawless a bonus   Add jim_lawless to my custom list of favorite coders     Areas Of Expertise:  C and C++     Java     Perl     Visual Basic Delphi     TCL     JavaScript     AWK / TAWK VBScript     XML / XSLT / XSD     ActiveX / COM     DLL's Servlets     ASP's     HTML     Various assemblers (6502,z80,80x86,BAL/ALC) CGI     MSXML     MFC     Various shell scripts and batch languages WSH     MS-DOS     Internet Protocols   Resume: Technical Interests Data compression Cryptography Image manipulation Compiler / interpreter design and implementation Programming tools Experience 15+ years professional employment as software engineer Published author since 1993 ( Dr. Dobbs Journal, Windows Developers Journal, C/C++ Users Journal and Java Solutions supplement, PC Techniques, The Perl Journal, DOS World ) 8 years college instructor ( adjunct faculty ) - Courses: C, Visual Basic, HTML, Java, Advanced Java, XML technologies 22 years experience with desktop computer systems 5 years independent author of e-mail tools Recent Projects ...from RentACoder... A TCP/IP monitor for Visual Basic - Intercepts TCP/IP traffic and fills VB listbox with site address, IP, and port MSXML DOM XML transforms in WSH VBScript A C tool to prevent printscreen for HTMLHELP presentations ...from Elance... A toolset comprised of C program, Delphi engine, and CGI (C) program that allows users to upload a series of JPEG images and download a slideshow screensaver from pondscape.com An NNTP newsreader group info downloader ...and as an independent consultant... A Perl engine to merge field data into PDF templates An ASP engine that generates reports in MS Word compatible RTF ( Rich-Text Format ) A TCP/IP test client A real-estate search-engine ( Perl / CGI ) A portable SMTP e-mailer CGI ( Perl ) Conversion of TCL / Postgres / Apache stock market web pages to ASP / IIS   Top Coder Competition Raw Score   Average Job Size Average Coder Rating Number of Completed Jobs Penalty for Missed Status Reports Warnings * $110.00 x 10 x 5 - (0 warnings x 1000 penalty) = 0   Raw Score Total: 5,500 * Penalty rule enacted on 10/8/2001 and applies only to warnings sent after that date. Note: all top coder competition stats are only updated once a day between midnight and 1:00 EDT.     Rent A Coder Work History All ratings and comments are the opinion of the poster and do not reflect the official view of Rent A Coder. Rated For Rated By Rating Bid Amount Rated On   Private auction for jim_lawless on 6/16/2003 8:00:05 PM Tako 10 (Excellent) $70.00 June 30, 2003 3:41:03 PM EDT   Once again Jim helped me out. He's a very talented coder and should be credited accordingly.     Program to Check User, then Unzip Software OfficialProjectBase 10 (Excellent) $100.00 June 24, 2003 4:04:20 PM EDT   A great job by Jim. He's very quick to respond and follow-up and made plenty of suggestions. Well done!!     List all xpaths in XML Document codehouse10 10 (Excellent) $100.00 September 17, 2002 1:28:17 AM EDT   To paraphrase Muhammad Ali -- Jim's fast, he's efficient, he can't possibly be beat.     remap printscreen key with javascript kelsag 10 (Excellent) $80.00 September 11, 2002 10:22:23 PM EDT       TCP activity monitor Tako 10 (Excellent) $200.00 August 31, 2002 12:18:54 PM EDT   Jim was very understanding to my problems/questions. He's a very patient coder, and that's what really counts. Would love to do business with him again in the future. Superb code, A++!     ------ Average:   10.00