Keep it simple

Achievements

Commence

Melle started in 1997 with the CRM system Commence, after dedicated installations for the companies that he worked for, he moved in 2001 to the Commence distributor in the Benelux; Memocom. Meanwhile Melle has been involved in many CRM installations for companies ranging from 1 to 500 users.  He has also written many Commence related utilities and a programming interface called MemoDLL.

ATM

Melle has programmed Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) for some years. Apart from data communication between the ATM and a local host, he has been involved in security systems like DES encryption and MAC of messages between ATM and host. He has also been involved in interfacing to special security devices and he wrote a sub system simulator. Finally he designed a simple language for defining screens of the ATM's.

At the moment the ATM's became more intelligent, Melle has been working on ATM's that have only a data communication link to a mainframe. Main focus has been transaction and error handling and data communication to the mainframe.

IT

Melle Boudewijns advised many companies about their infrastructure to be used when doing business. Melle implemented a number of LAN's and a worldwide WAN. These systems were based on Novell Netware, Windows and Unix.

Netware

Melle wrote a number of utilities to make life easier when managing a Novell network.

CodeWright

Melle also wrote a number of extensions to CodeWright; a development environment for Windows.

European projects

Melle Boudewijns also managed a number of European research projects.

He was involved in the Misra C project. The aim of this project was to define and introduce a safer C language. Tasking integrated Misra C into their integrated development environment based upon Codewright.

An other project was OMI-TREFAB. The aim of this project was to create an integrated, however modular, tool-chain for the rapid development of embedded applications. The key technology that would act as a catalyst on the embedded system development process was fuzzy logic, combined with C methods and tools. The OMI-TREFAB concept and tool-chain has been demonstrated in the development of a demanding embedded application from the automotive domain, specifically the Brake by Wire (BBW) system.

Melle Boudewijns was also involved in a very large OMI project called OMI/DEBUG. The long-term objective of OMI/DEBUG was to provide embedded application developers with comprehensive, compatible, production-quality hardware and software debuggers for all OMI microprocessors. In this project Tasking opened their internal interfaces and published the Generic Debugger Interface specification (GDI).