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Coffee Break Pro
Rewriting an application in REALbasic
Issue: 1.4 (February/March 2003)
Author: Thomas Reed
Author Bio: Thomas Reed has been programming as a hobbyist for more than 20 years, and fell in love with the Mac in 1984. Coffee Break Pro can be found at
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Article Length (in bytes): 11,350
Starting Page Number: 11
RBD Number: 1408
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http://home.earthlink.net/~thomasareed/shareware/
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I grew up programming any machine I could get my hands on -- from the obscure Epson HX-20 notebook computer to the Commodore-64. In 1984, my dad brought home our first Macintosh, and I started programming it in BASIC shortly thereafter. Since then, I've been using a computer daily, sometimes for work and sometimes for play, but nearly always for extended periods of time.
In early 1993, I started to experience mild pain in my hands, wrists, and arms as a result of long sessions at the keyboard. I had heard the buzzwords "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" and "Repetitive Stress Injury," but they hadn't really made an impact on me before. After all, I was only 21; things like that weren't supposed to happen to people my age! Although I never had symptoms severe enough to seek medical attention, and my discomfort was probably simple muscle pain, I was worried. I began to hear horror stories about people who developed lifelong health problems because of extensive computer use.
I had previously seen a few break reminder programs before then, and had laughed at them. Now I realized that they were not such a silly idea. Unfortunately, after looking at the available programs I found that none of them suited my needs. All were very simple, easily bypassed, and not very flexible. Thus was born the idea for Coffee Break!
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