Heritage · 1995 — 2024
A personal encyclopedia of tools built under the SADE brand (since 1998), then V-Softs. Some are still published, others fed into what I build today. None of them was wasted effort.
Published tools
Co-created with Julian Moss (MIT). A complete, production-oriented Windows scripting language with a declarative GUI dialog engine. Used internally by the UN, HP Palo Alto, IBM, BP Oil and several hundred other organizations. Still published today — the technical cornerstone of everything that followed.
⤷ The legacy site dialogscript.com is still online, its period look fully embraced. A redesign is planned with a new release.Pack Maintenance et Sécurité 98 (Maintenance & Security Pack 98) for Windows. A suite of diagnostic, cleanup and hardening tools, distributed under the SADE brand via sade.net/logiciels/pms98/. My first in-house licensing framework — Windows registry, copyright/registration screens, license validity — reused on dozens of products afterwards.
A complete Win32 CGI framework with a built-in relational database engine. The first and only web relational engine built entirely on strings — true to my vision: “almost everything can be boiled down to strings”. Designed to run business web applications on Windows at a time when everyone was chasing PHP/MySQL. Visionary — an application monolith before the word was fashionable.
⤷ Still in production today — it is the underlying engine of GWeb (2000) and then V-Fact (2026). Twenty-eight years of unbroken technical lineage.A native Windows rewrite of the famous Linux FormMail, with built-in anti-spam features. Used on thousands of sites as an email form gateway at a time when every webmaster was reinventing their own.
The Mailinblack equivalent, built for SmarterMail — the Windows mail server. Fingerprint-based anti-spam filter, challenge-response, finely managed allow/block lists, native SmarterMail plug-in. Still in production with its current users — a more modern release is in the works.
⤷ Aimed at a native English-speaking audience — the French user base stayed marginal (out of a preference for "made elsewhere").A dynamic cache service with on-the-fly compression to optimize mobile connections in low-coverage areas. Built as part of the in-store advertising computer systems for Galeries Lafayette, Nouvelles Galeries, Atac, Intermarché, Champion.
A fully integrated online management web platform, written with DBCgi. Integrations with CFONB and ETEBAC (French banking standards), bandwidth, usage, deduplication and fixvdb modules, automated report generation. A complete business suite at a time when SaaS did not exist yet — and SaaS itself would invent nothing beyond its marketing packaging.
⤷ Direct ancestor of V-Fact (2026). Online management doesn't date from the Cloud; it dates from GWeb.Study, design, build and operation of the largest multi-carrier datacenter in Midi-Pyrénées. In parallel, research into connected villages within a European project supervised by CNES. Not a published product, but proof of infrastructure-scale capability.
Study and design of switchless communication equipment for a telephone carrier. Re-engineering of the routing layer for lower-footprint telecom architectures. Hardware + firmware + software tooling.
A Windows antivirus built on the ClamAV engine + MBR protection (MBRWiz). Not a surface-level wrapper — genuine defense in depth, signature updates included, granular control. Still distributed.
Built mobile terminals meeting the most demanding security standards. Hand-picked hardware, hardened firmware, custom embedded software. Know-how that now shapes my approach to V-Shield and V-IpBan.
A personal tool for sending and receiving text messages from the Windows desktop. Used in-house every day since 2019.
⤷ Its source code became the foundation of ACME's bulk SMS sending engine (acme-sas.com) — a fine example of the philosophy: everything can be boiled down to strings, imagination does the rest.A suite of tools for plotting and managing Chia farms during that cryptocurrency's boom. Plotcopy, monitoring, automation. Kept as a witness of its era.
Also worth mentioning
The following tools also passed through my hands, at varying degrees of industrialization. Some stayed in-house, others were distributed to wider or narrower circles. What they all share is that they were actually finished — not prototypes left hanging.
V-Lock — workstation locking for shared environments.
V-SecDesk — kiosk-mode Windows desktop for public terminals.
V-IPMonitor — IP and connectivity monitoring with alerts.
V-UNC Drives — consistent network drive management across Windows infrastructure.
VStrings — utility for extracting and manipulating strings in binaries.
SignCode — code-signing tool for the clean distribution of executables.
ZeroSSL — tooling for automated SSL/TLS certificate management.
License Server + VDS License Server — license servers for SADE/V-Softs products.
VMBackup — automated virtual machine backup.
winfixit — Windows repair kit for broken-down workstations.
Game Monitor — process and performance monitoring for gaming environments.
MGA Trasher — cleanup tool for Microsoft products activated under Genuine Advantage.
Advanced Server Controller — multi-service controller for Windows Server.
CTB, 2see, Dbank, EVA, Regsys, ace, burn — more confidential tools, largely in-house.
The past is not a museum — it is the soil in which what I build today takes root. If one of these tools resonates with a current need, let's talk.
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