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Andreas Jakof • Edited

Aside from little things in school during CS, my first App, which was completly mine, was a small countdown timer, written in Delphi.
During my studies, I just met my future wife. But soon after we met, she left for home over the semester break.
I was (and still am 15 years later) fully in love and couldn‘t wait for us to see each other again. So I sat down and wrote that little countdown timer, to show me, how much waiting was still ahead.

The hardest part was, to make the title in the task bar change, even when it was minimized. I had no idea of events and background threads at the time and learned quite a bit, since it was also my first app in Delphi.

I don‘t have it anymore. And I guess I would do the same thing now in about an hour or two. But I still think fondly of it.