[AccessD] Using Global Connctions

Arthur Fuller artful at rogers.com
Sat Mar 15 07:13:23 CST 2003


Your lucky friend. I haven't found anything for myself except one web
contract. I'm still beating the bushes.

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] 
> Sent:	March 15, 2003 2:32 AM
> To:	accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject:	RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 
> Hi John:
> 
> A friend is trying to talk me in to going to Toronto, Arthur's country. he
> says there is lots of work there. He just got on full-time at a place
> after only two weeks. He says it is the hottest place in North America.
> 
> If things ever dried up here might take him up on it. Have a couple
> hundred relatives back there. (wife is Portuguese.)
> 
> Just a thought.
> Jim 
> 
> 	 -----Original Message-----
> 	From: 	accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] 
> 	Sent:	Friday, March 14, 2003 2:25 PM
> 	To:	accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> 	Subject:	RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 
> 	Nope, just worried about the future.  My two big clients wound down
> in December and January and I'm not making anywhere close to enough to pay
> the rent anymore.
> 
> 	The economy isn't recovering, people are not only not hiring, they
> are still laying off.  Not a good place to be.  
> 
> 	I need work if anyone has any!  Top talent at reasonable prices ;-)
> 
> 	John W. Colby
> 	Colby Consulting
> 	www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> 	[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Charlotte
> Foust
> 	Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 4:22 PM
> 	To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> 	Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 
> 
> 	It's more like JC mellowed out by fatherhood ... Or maybe too
> exhausted
> 	to rant today! <VBG>
> 
> 	Charlotte Foust
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net] 
> 	Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 1:15 PM
> 	To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> 	Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 
> 
> 	...uh oh ...better check up on my end-times insurance ...JC not in a
> 	ranting mood is a sure sign of their coming :(
> 
> 	William Hindman
> 	"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for
> you -
> 	ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the
> world:
> 	ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do
> for
> 	the freedom of man." John F. Kennedy, 1961
> 
> 	----- Original Message -----
> 	From: "John W. Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> 	To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> 	Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:33 PM
> 	Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 
> 
> 	> I already spoke up on the issue.  Not in the Ranting mood at the 
> 	> moment.
> 	>
> 	> John W. Colby
> 	> Colby Consulting
> 	> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 	>
> 	> -----Original Message-----
> 	> From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> 	> [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William 
> 	> Hindman
> 	> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:17 PM
> 	> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> 	> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 	>
> 	>
> 	> ...ok guys ...is it going to be swords or pistols ...and where the
> 
> 	> hell is JC when a definitive rant is needed?
> 	>
> 	> William Hindman
> 	> "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for
> you
> 
> 	> -
> 	ask
> 	> what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world:
> ask
> 
> 	> not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for
> the 
> 	> freedom
> 	of
> 	> man." John F. Kennedy, 1961
> 	>
> 	> ----- Original Message -----
> 	> From: "Marcus, Scott (GEAE, RHI Consulting)"
> <scott.marcus at ae.ge.com>
> 	> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> 	> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:49 PM
> 	> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 	>
> 	>
> 	> > So you are saying that they are needed more than rarely? Any
> project
> 
> 	> > I
> 	> work on
> 	> > is a judgment call on how the project needs to progress. I'm
> saying
> 	using
> 	> them
> 	> > more than rarely is bad judgment and hense sloppy programming.
> 	> >
> 	> > Scott Marcus
> 	> >
> 	> > -----Original Message-----
> 	> > From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com]
> 	> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 1:04 PM
> 	> > To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
> 	> > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 	> >
> 	> >
> 	> > Absolutely not true.  Saying that Globals are rarely needed is a
> 	judgement
> 	> > call, based solely on your own experiences.
> 	> >
> 	> > Drew
> 	> >
> 	> > -----Original Message-----
> 	> > From: Marcus, Scott (GEAE, RHI Consulting) 
> 	> > [mailto:scott.marcus at ae.ge.com]
> 	> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 6:29 AM
> 	> > To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
> 	> > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 	> >
> 	> >
> 	> > "Global variables should be used where they need to be used, no 
> 	> > more, no less"... well 'duh' but it doesn't make it "crystal
> clear".
> 
> 	> > If I
> 	knowingly
> 	> > use a
> 	> > hammer when a screwdriver is needed (and I have a screwdriver),
> I 
> 	> > would
> 	be
> 	> a
> 	> > pretty stupid person. On the same token, those who abuse global
> 	variables
> 	> > think
> 	> > they are needed in their case, otherwise they would not be using
> 
> 	> > them.
> 	Why
> 	> > program something when it isn't needed? The fact is, global 
> 	> > variables
> 	are
> 	> > rarely
> 	> > needed and should be rarely used. That's crystal clear.
> 	> >
> 	> > Scott
> 	> >
> 	> > -----Original Message-----
> 	> > From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk]
> 	> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 5:55 AM
> 	> > To: Drew Wutka
> 	> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> 	> >
> 	> >
> 	> > Hi Drew
> 	> >
> 	> > > Globals are just the broadest scope that you can have on a 
> 	> > > variable.
> 	> You
> 	> > > have procedural, modular, and global variables.  Global
> variables
> 	should
> 	> > be
> 	> > > used where they need to be used, no more, no less.
> 	> >
> 	> > This crystal clear statement should be assimilated by everyone. 
> 	> > Thanks Drew!
> 	> >
> 	> > /gustav
> 	> >
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