[AccessD] Figuring the date

Thanks Drew.  I drew inspiration from that, if only for 1% - Ha!

Max
Ps OT: but in the Army, us "boys" referred to our "bits" as our 1%

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: 09 March 2009 15:48
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Figuring the date

Ah, but that 1% inspiration is what makes you an artist!!!  (Not all
artists can draw.  Heck, I have no color coordination myself, let alone
the ability to draw anything more complex then a stick figure!)

I like the link you posted.  I've always looked at what I do as
'standing on the shoulders of giants'.  Though I didn't know where that
phrase had originated.  Look at the talent on this list, all using MS
Access.  An application that is standing on the shoulders of years of
development, from relational database design, to VBA.  Both of which are
far more advanced then it's predecessors.  Just think, when you use
something like Dir(), Split(), DateSerial(), you are getting the
advantage of someone else's code which compiles those VB commands into
machine language for your computer to work on.  It's still all 1's and
0's to the computer.

But believe me, that 1% does make you an artist in this field.  We all
'copy' code from time to time.  Be it someone else's work, or even stuff
we ourselves wrote before.  But when you add or tweak something, you are
creating a new piece of work.  And the advantage of a list like this, is
that there is an audience here that can appreciate a masterpiece when it
sees one.

Drew 'code boy'

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:12 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Figuring the date

> And thanks for the compliment Max!  You're a pretty good artist
yourself!

I don't think so! Perhaps I could refer you to this quotation (in Latin)

Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes

Which translates as a Western metaphor meaning "One who develops future
intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by
notable thinkers of the past"  

Now, that sounds more like me.  Without the guys on this, and similar,
lists
I would still be Typing in the Listing of the Eliza program into my
Commodore PET (oh, how I loved that PET - They even had one on Star
Trek).

It's you guys here (and I do mean the ladies as well) who take time and
effort to bring your knowledge, and importantly your experience, to help
others and I have learnt from that.  My code is 99% perspiration (typing
in
other people's code) and 1% inspiration (hey! I can do that bit myself).

And one thing I am not is artistic.  If I had to live in a house drawn
by me
it would stand a pretty close facsimile of one drawn by a 5 year old
with
crayons.  I can just about draw breath!

Max

Ps. Here is the wikepidia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

pps I saw a Sirius (Peddle?) in a museum in Devon last week.  I had one
of
them too.

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