William Benson (VBACreations.Com)
vbacreations at gmail.com
Wed Jun 19 00:07:36 CDT 2013
Updated: Gamma baked an Alpha Pi for the state fair. The judge Eta slice, Theta few kind words and moved on to try the others'. Upsilon comes this woman and starts quite a scene. She was last year's winner and hearing the judge praise someone else Delta blow to her pride. "Judge, my Nu recipe is Beta than anything you've ever tried, I am sure, and my ingredients are the Phi-nest!" She seemed desperate to win twice in a Rho. The judge only let out a Psi and started to walk away. But she said "If I don't win, I'll Sigma dog on you!". Sure enough, her dog was about Omicron away from the judge's leg. However, the judge was not afraid of the dog. "If that happens it'll Lambda dog in the pound and you'll be thrown out of this fair Omega sure you're never allowed back!" That seemed to shut her up. Needless to say, she didn't win. Still, Gamma says the other lady's pie was better. She figures Zeta probably given her first place if she hadn't Kappa harassing the judge, putting him in a bad Mu-de. Epsilon story, but I felt Iota tell it. -----Original Message----- From: William Benson (VBACreations.Com) [mailto:vbacreations at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:05 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Feelings To All Gamma baked an Alpha Pi for the state fair. The judge Eta slice, Theta few kind words and moved on to try the others'. Upsilon comes this woman and starts quite a scene. She was last year's winner and hearing the judge praise someone else Delta blow to her pride. "Judge, my Nu recipe is Beta than anything you've ever tried, I am sure, and my ingredients are the Phi-nest!" She seemed desperate to win twice in a Rho. The judge only let out a Psi and started to walk away. But she said "If I don't win, I'll Sigma dog on you!". Sure enough, her dog was about Omicron away from the judge's leg. However, the judge was not afraid of the dow. "If that happens it'll Lambda dog in the pound and you'll be thrown out of this fair and never allowed back!" That seemed to shut her up. Needless to say, she didn't win. Still, Gamma says the other lady's pie was better. She figures Zeta probably given her first place if she hadn't Kappa harassing the judge. Epsilon story, but I felt Iota tell it. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W Colby Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:58 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Good Feelings To All Arthur, I would be uneasy recommending anything called Alpha Anywhere. I would at LEAST wait for the Beta Anywhere. Of course this is not MS so maybe Alpha software actually works? John W. Colby Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 6/18/2013 11:21 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > Tony, > > I can speak only for myself, but since I declared my retirement, I > have found life a whole lot more fun than pretty much the four decades > since I graduated from university. I have a lot less money now than in > those decades, but I am lots happier than since my days in university, > which were perhaps the most fun years of my life. My current stage in > life is a close second. I'm learning Mandarin, reading 2-3 books a > week, working on my next HBO-style saga about the history of Chinese > crime in Canada, and rediscovering Mozart, to whom I have previously > given short shrift in favour of Beethoven. In my retirement years, I > have never felt more energetic and less pressured by deadlines. I love it. > > I suppose that some people feel useless upon retirement, but I am not > one of those. I've shrunk the needs to spend and negated the desire to > keep up with the Joneses. I've discarded the huge majority of my > material possessions, either by sale or donation to the library or > Value Village, and the net result is that I feel more free than I have > felt in the past 3 decades at minimum. > > Recently an old client called me to request a few enhancements to the > app I wrote for him. The code began in about 2005 and I've done a few > weeks work on it every year since. It's a complex app and he is a > terrific friend, so there's no way in the world that I would abandon my end of the canoe. > > There are two other things happening in terms of gigs: > > I'm mentoring a guy in San Francisco who I think holds the world > record for largest Access app ever written. Using MZTools, I > determined that the total line count of VBA code was 700K. There are > ~360 tables, and a MySQL back end. (He approached me because he bought > our book on MySQL ( www.artfulsoftware.com). > > I created a Volunteer-management app with an Access FE and a SQL > Server BE, for an NPO that handles housing for the aged and infirm. I > volunteered to do this because I recognize the value of their work. > The hourly rate on this gig is $0. Prior to my retirement, I would > never have had the time to do such a project, despite my empathy for > their work. Now that I have retired from the coding business, I have > lots of hours to throw against such a benevolent project. In about two > months, following local testing, we'll roll this baby out to ~300 > offices in ~20 cities. It's part of my "Giving Back" strategy in my semi-retirement. > > I still do (very) occasional maintenance on Access projects, but have > shifted my focus to Alpha Five. I'm on the beta team for Alpha > Anywhere, soon to be released. In a word, it is awesome. "Anywhere" means just that: > write a web app once and it will run in any browser, plus tablet and > smart phone. Or, alternatively, write a traditional desktop app. I am > still mid-project on my first Alpha Anywhere app. It took me a while > to decide upon what to write in it, but finally it occurred to me that > I have the perfect app to try out on this new platform (perfect > meaning the existing Access app I've written for a client who could > most profit by the transition to smart phone and tablet). In terms of > complexity, I'd call it middle-level. It's an app for safety > inspection engineers. In case you don't know what they are, they visit > factories and take measurements at every workstation (drill, press, > robot) and pass or fail their current setup, supplying recommendations > for how to fix any detected problems. The client who commissioned this > app currently lugs a laptop around from station to station. Recently I > gave him a glimpse of the new version, written in the beta of Alpha > Anywhere. I showed him how it runs on my Nexus > 7 and he was blown away. > > In full disclosure, as a member of the beta team at Alpha, I am not > paid for my time and since it's privately held, own no shares and the > above should be considered my objective opinion, not a propaganda > piece. The simple fact is that should any potential Access gigs come > my way in the future, I will discourage Access as the vehicle and > suggest Alpha instead, for two reasons: it is wayyyy more powerful > than Access, and it beautifully supports desktop, web, smart phone and tablet. > > I'm doing the port of the aforementioned safety-engineering app on my > nickel. The client didn't request it; it just struck me as the perfect > example of what to gain by having an app written once that can run on > all these platforms. It's also an excellent excuse to keep > programming, but with the virtue that there is neither a deadline nor > a project manager nagging me. > > I repeat that I have nothing to gain personally from my endorsement of > Alpha 5 and the forthcoming Alpha Anywhere. But this is my endorsement: > don't wait for Microsoft to release some sort of Access equivalent, > Visit the AlphaSoftware.com web site and download a trial and see for > yourself how superior it is. Nuff said. > > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Tony Septav <TSeptav at uniserve.com> wrote: > >> Hey Guys >> >> I think we have become dinosaurs, our time has come and gone. Yes >> they may be some of you that are still being profitable with ACCESS projects but >> let's be honest............... Sorry not trying to be the "Grim Reaper". >> Getting that old wiener wagon and hanging out at the beach and >> watching wave babies is looking better all the time. The only problem >> is I am to old to remember what to do with a wave baby. >> >> >> >> Tony Septav >> >> Nanaimo, BC >> >> Canada >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com