[AccessD] Good Feelings To All

John W Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Mon Jul 1 21:53:10 CDT 2013


Keep us informed.  If it is all that, perhaps you can build a new career in it.

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 7/1/2013 8:09 PM, Tony Septav wrote:
> Hey All
> I took the dip and bought the program.  Have not hat a chance at the moment
> to totally evaluate the product, as I am doing home renos. But as Arthur
> says and I have seen this product blows the knobs off of ACCESS.
>
> Tony Septav
> Nanaimo, BC
> Canada
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
> Sent: July-01-13 7:31 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Good Feelings To All
>
> I have a copy but haven't had time to evaluate it yet.  But Arthur Fuller
> uses it and really likes it.  I don't know if he's monitoring AccessD but
> you can get him on the tech and OT lists or directly at Arthur Fuller
> (fuller.artful at gmail.com).
>
> R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 12:47 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Good Feelings To All
>
> Hi Rocky,
>
> I just saw you post about Alpha Anywhere.  Have you used it ?  Do you know
> anyone that is using it ?
>
> Hope all is great ?
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> On 18 June 2013 16:25, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
>
>> Does Alpha support relational db back ends?
>>
>> r
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur
>> Fuller
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:22 AM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Good Feelings To All
>>
>> Tony,
>>
>> I can speak only for myself, but since I declared my retirement, I
>> have found life a whole lot more fun than pretty much the four decades
>> since I graduated from university. I have a lot less money now than in
>> those decades, but I am lots happier than since my days in university,
>> which were perhaps the most fun years of my life. My current stage in
>> life is a close second. I'm learning Mandarin, reading 2-3 books a
>> week, working on my next HBO-style saga about the history of Chinese
>> crime in Canada, and rediscovering Mozart, to whom I have previously
>> given short shrift in favour of Beethoven. In my retirement years, I
>> have never felt more energetic and less pressured by deadlines. I love
>> it.
>>
>> I suppose that some people feel useless upon retirement, but I am not
>> one of those. I've shrunk the needs to spend and negated the desire to
>> keep up with the Joneses. I've discarded the huge majority of my
>> material possessions, either by sale or donation to the library or
>> Value Village, and the net result is that I feel more free than I have
>> felt in the past 3 decades at minimum.
>>
>> Recently an old client called me to request a few enhancements to the
>> app I wrote for him. The code began in about 2005 and I've done a few
>> weeks work on it every year since. It's a complex app and he is a
>> terrific friend, so there's no way in the world that I would abandon my
> end of the canoe.
>> There are two other things happening in terms of gigs:
>>
>> I'm mentoring a guy in San Francisco who I think holds the world
>> record for largest Access app ever written. Using MZTools, I
>> determined that the total line count of VBA code was 700K. There are
>> ~360 tables, and a MySQL back end. (He approached me because he bought
>> our book on MySQL ( www.artfulsoftware.com).
>>
>> I created a Volunteer-management app with an Access FE and a SQL
>> Server BE, for an NPO that handles housing for the aged and infirm. I
>> volunteered to do this because I recognize the value of their work.
>> The hourly rate on this gig is $0. Prior to my retirement, I would
>> never have had the time to do such a project, despite my empathy for
>> their work. Now that I have retired from the coding business, I have
>> lots of hours to throw against such a benevolent project. In about two
>> months, following local testing, we'll roll this baby out to ~300
>> offices in ~20 cities. It's part of my "Giving Back"
>> strategy in my semi-retirement.
>>
>> I still do (very) occasional maintenance on Access projects, but have
>> shifted my focus to Alpha Five. I'm on the beta team for Alpha
>> Anywhere, soon to be released. In a word, it is awesome. "Anywhere" means
> just that:
>> write a web app once and it will run in any browser, plus tablet and
>> smart phone. Or, alternatively, write a traditional desktop app. I am
>> still mid-project on my first Alpha Anywhere app. It took me a while
>> to decide upon what to write in it, but finally it occurred to me that
>> I have the perfect app to try out on this new platform (perfect
>> meaning the existing Access app I've written for a client who could
>> most profit by the transition to smart phone and tablet). In terms of
>> complexity, I'd call it middle-level. It's an app for safety
>> inspection engineers. In case you don't know what they are, they visit
>> factories and take measurements at every workstation (drill, press,
>> robot) and pass or fail their current setup, supplying recommendations
>> for how to fix any detected problems. The client who commissioned this
>> app currently lugs a laptop around from station to station. Recently I
>> gave him a glimpse of the new version, written in the beta of Alpha
>> Anywhere. I showed him how it runs on my Nexus
>> 7 and he was blown away.
>>
>> In full disclosure, as a member of the beta team at Alpha, I am not
>> paid for my time and since it's privately held, own no shares and the
>> above should be considered my objective opinion, not a propaganda
>> piece. The simple fact is that should any potential Access gigs come
>> my way in the future, I will discourage Access as the vehicle and
>> suggest Alpha instead, for two
>> reasons:
>> it is wayyyy more powerful than Access, and it beautifully supports
>> desktop, web, smart phone and tablet.
>>
>> I'm doing the port of the aforementioned safety-engineering app on my
>> nickel. The client didn't request it; it just struck me as the perfect
>> example of what to gain by having an app written once that can run on
>> all these platforms. It's also an excellent excuse to keep
>> programming, but with the virtue that there is neither a deadline nor
>> a project manager nagging me.
>>
>> I repeat that I have nothing to gain personally from my endorsement of
>> Alpha
>> 5 and the forthcoming Alpha Anywhere. But this is my endorsement:
>> don't wait for Microsoft to release some sort of Access equivalent,
>> Visit the AlphaSoftware.com web site and download a trial and see for
>> yourself how superior it is. Nuff said.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Tony Septav <TSeptav at uniserve.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Guys
>>>
>>> I think we have become dinosaurs, our time has come and gone. Yes
>>> they may be some of you that are still being profitable with ACCESS
>>> projects
>> but
>>> let's be honest...............   Sorry not trying to be the "Grim
>> Reaper".
>>> Getting that old wiener  wagon and hanging out at the beach and
>>> watching wave babies is looking better all the time. The only
>>> problem is I am to old to remember what to do with a wave baby.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tony Septav
>>>
>>> Nanaimo, BC
>>>
>>> Canada
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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