WELCOME!

Welcome to dswrite.com, the portfolio and test site for David B. Stewart, IT professional, author, and web hobbiest. Click the "About" link for more informaiton.

New Book!

There's a new book a'comin'! Williamson County, Tennessee historians called for authors and Dave responded. Commemorating the sesquicentennial of the war between the states, look for Filtered Through Time on county bookshelves this Fall. The book is an anthology of pieces by local authors considering how that conflict has rippled into the present. His piece entitled (pre-edit) "Spirits of Remembrance" takes a view askance of what you might expect.

A Trip Through the Wayback Machine

Network and Information Technology geeks will understand: Long, long ago, there was no automation to help plan and identfy TCP/IP networks. Then, in 1994, there was the TCP/IP Subnet Assistant for Windows. The first of it's kind, use of this application spread around the globe. Amazingly, IPv4 still dominates public space thanks to RFC1918. Some of you gray hairs may have used the assistant in TCP/IP training classes and beyond. Since then, it has been imitated and improved upon by others. There are better web-based products, to be sure, but, it started with Dave.