[AccessD] Complete rewrite (was: Find First in an Array?)

William Hindman wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Fri Feb 20 23:35:13 CST 2009


...depends on the client ...they pay, I play ...I can sing and dance as well 
...but only if they're deaf, blind, and rich :)

William

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From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:16 AM
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: [AccessD] Complete rewrite (was: Find First in an Array?)

> Hi William
>
> I had the impression that you converted everything to web form 
> applications as fast as you could do the typing ...?
>
> Yesterday I played with the report viewer in asp.net and that is awesome - 
> works "just like that", ready for export to Excel or PDF - exactly what 
> clients request.
>
> /gustav
>
>>>> wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com 20-02-2009 15:01 >>>
> ...lol ...I'm in the process of a complete rewrite of a major ap I did 
> more
> than ten years ago ...in my case, your 50% estimate is low by a wide 
> margin
> ...very wide! :)
>
> ...I'd still like to see you refactor Rocky's code as a class/collection
> solution.
>
> William
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 8:22 PM
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Find First in an Array?
>
>> Code reviews?  OMG!
>>
>> But yea, best practices is a learned skill.  I can't tell you the times 
>> (when I was learning to
>> program) that I would do whatever just to make it work, rather than do it 
>> right.  Then it was
>> refactoring because...  There are just so many times when "the right way" 
>> takes 10% longer than the
>> easy way, but refactoring the easy way takes 50% longer than the right 
>> way.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>
>> Charlotte Foust wrote:
>>> Then you MUST be an independent developer because if someone else
>>> reviews your code, believe me, they look under the hood!
>>>
>>> Charlotte Foust
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:05 PM
>>> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Find First in an Array?
>>>
>>> That's my motto, now.  No one ever looks under the hood, and I always
>>> judge my programs from the outside.  Matters not how the data got on the
>>> form as long as it happens 1) fast and 2) accurate.
>>>
>>>
>>> Spot on, Rocky.
>>>
>>> Max
>
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