[AccessD] Just ANother Old Boys Club

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Jul 8 15:52:25 CDT 2010


In fact 80% of my income now comes from SQL Server / C#.  I do very little Access stuff any more.

I am loving C# though.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Gary Kjos wrote:
> And most of us have kind of moved on from straight Access Development
> like we did years ago. But we do still answer them when they are asked
> most of the time. You might have to wait a day or two sometimes.
> 
> I kind of do take exception to your attempt to put some guilt on list
> members for not doing..... not sure what.
> 
> I have a real job. I have a life. I give my time to the list as an
> administrator. I answer the questions when I can. I'm not sure what
> more you expect Tony. I think the number of new users of Access is
> probably a lot less than it used to be, especially as Excel has had
> it's limits raised over the most recent releases. Used to be that
> people were forced to use Access for things when they hit the 65K row
> limit in an Excel file. Now that bar is raised over a million rows so
> the user community sticks with Excel for those things.
> 
> Sorry you feel like we aren't living up to your expectations but we
> are doing what we can.
> 
> 
> GK
> 
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Drew Wutka <DWUTKA at marlow.com> wrote:
>> Well toss us a question!!!
>>
>> Drew
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tony Septav
>> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 2:02 PM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: [AccessD] Just ANother Old Boys Club
>>
>> Hey All
>> I have been on this list for more years than I can remember (since
>> 19930.  It has  now become an old boys list. Pretty pathethic, I don't
>> see any respones to new questions, basically just chatter and respones
>> from the old members (back and forth). Yes , you are going to being
>> saying "If you don't like leave".. And probably I will. With the amount
>> of knowledge available here it is a crime to waste it. Shane on you.
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