Mark Breen
mark.breen at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 15:42:18 CST 2004
Hello Guys, I have just spent the last two days working on Access 2K. I have done practically no work on Access since 1998 / 1999. I was gobsmacked at how fast I was when working on it today. At one point, the client looked up to see whether I was only pretending to be typing on the keyboard. I have been using VB6 and SQL Server extensively for the last two years, but I never have had someone look at me because I am so noisy on the keyboard. I guess the interface in Access is very ergonomic, because it certainly lets you get at all the things you need rapidly. Steve, I am about to plunge into .Net so, I will let you know what I think. I sounds beautiful from the luxury of the bed time read, I am sure that i will find it different when I am using it in anger. I liked the metaphor, We miss you on OT Have you read about Reimann's hypothesis? Mark On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:31:58 -0500, John W. Colby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > ROTFL. > > I have to believe though that you have forgotten your early days learning > Access, when all the millions of properties and events were so much Greek, > and you had no idea what an object model was, never mind how to find it or > how to interpret it. > > I distinctly remember moving from procedural "start at the top (or with > Turbo Pascal - the bottom) and start executing" code to Event driven "how > can you ever know where the code is going to execute next". I really got > into Access "full time" in 1994 and there was no internet. There was no > Access Users Group, in fact I was on the BOD of the San Diego Users Group > sitting in on that first meeting singing "halleluiah" that I would finally > have someone to talk to about Access. Once a month users group meetings. > There were very few books, and the ADH was waaaaay over my head. > > Yea sure, now that I have spent 10 years learning it, Access is indeed > "chocolates on the pillow". > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: > http://folding.stanford.edu/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steven W. Erbach > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:06 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: [dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET > > Dear Group, > > For what it's worth, I've come up with a suitable metaphor to describe the > difference between writing an application in Microsoft Access and writing > that same application using .NET technologies. > > Microsoft Access is like living in a luxury hotel with hot and cold running > chamber maids, laundry service, shoe shining service, room service, beds > made every day, carpet vacuumed every day, fresh flowers every day, fresh > linen, those nifty little soaps and bottles of shampoo, Magic Fingers > massage bed, chocolates on the pillow, and your favorite newspaper unfolded > to the financial page for you. > > .NET is like clearing a wooded hillside to build a vacation cottage. But > first you have to learn how to operate a bulldozer to clear the woods. Then > you have to figure out for yourself the most efficient use of block and > tackle to haul the trees out of the way. Oh, did I mention that you have to > build a road to the site first? Then you need to stack the logs onto a truck > and drive it yourself to the sawmill so that you can saw the logs into > boards to use to build your house. You might want to learn how to smelt > metal so that you can make your own nails and hammer and such... > > It ain't quite that bad but I've never had to buy so many reference books > and have them open at the same time. > > Anybody else with a less florid description of .NET development? > > Steve Erbach > Neenah, WI > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >