Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Sun Oct 2 10:16:51 CDT 2011
Arthur, I get that. Figuring out ways to do what you have already done, but to do it better, probably comes with the intellectual territory you have. It's a fine thing to do. Keep on doing it. T Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com 231-322-2787 On 10/1/2011 2:25 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > I confess that I use a version of the TIme-Billing app that was a sample app > in Office 2007. I reshaped it to suit my needs and then have used it ever > since. It works excellenty for my meagre requirements -- single or > occasionally assistant developer, and dealing with several projects. and > allowing me to assign an hour to this task and and two hours to that task, > and print an invoice and send same to the client in question as a PDF file. > That's enough for me, and also for Revenue Canada, our equivalent of the > IRS. > > I needed to add a couple of columns to the sample app, and to modify the > queries and reports to reflect these new columns, but basically I changed > almost nothing in the sample app, and it works wonderfully for my modest > needs. I have not bothered to migrate it to SQL Server, since I am the only > user of this db, but I have migrated dozens of client dbs and it's a breeze > to go there. I back up the BE daily and why go further if the existing > solution works? > > Way back when, I believed the opposite: "If it works, break it, and think of > something better." Well, I don't have enough time remaining in my life to > continue upon this path. Younger souls may have the time and energy, but I'm > out of both. If it works, leave it alone! That's my current motto. > > You know what, I just lied. I cannot leave a well-bed baby alone. I have to > go back and tend to her. In terms of code, this means Refactoring, and even > if the client is not willing to pay, I can't help revisiting apps delivered > and accepted. I revisit them compulsively, and I look at the 20+lines of > code and think, couldn't this be 10 lines? And so on. I can't help it, even > though the last invoice to the given client might have been a year ago. I > return to the code and inspect it and think, "What an idiot > > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:55 AM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > >> I had to relink my views (SQL Server). It seems that I had not stored the >> password in the link or something. The tables were r/w but the views were >> ro. >> >> So it appears that 4 hours later I am able to use my billing app in 2010. >> It still gives the same error message in 2003. >> >> Unfortunately I use Outlook to send/receive email and it remains to be >> configured. or move to Blat or the likes. >> >> -- >> John W. Colby >> Colby Consulting >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >>