[dba-Tech] The big change

Dan Waters df.waters at comcast.net
Sat Sep 14 08:33:31 CDT 2013


I found this on Amazon - in stock!

Search on Amazon for:  Basic4Android: Rapid App Development for Android

It's on my wish list now!

Dan



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 6:19 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The big change

New book on B4A coming out in a month's time:

http://basic4android.info/



On 9 Sep 2013 at 16:10, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> I fired up Basic4Android today.  Not a slam dunk but looks like a good 
> way to develop an android app.  Bus man's holiday, I guess.  I don't 
> need it for my career but it's time to play with phones and tablets.  
> My Access career is about done.
> 
> I did get a button installed on the emulator phone and clicked it and 
> it said "Hello World!" :)
> 
> R
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur 
> Fuller
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 3:55 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The big change
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I agree with most of what you said and some of what your citations said.
> Clearly the marketplace has shifted, and we dinosaurs who put on our 
> blinkers and see the rapidly-dimishing market for desktop apps 
> (irrespective of programming language)... I for one Refuse to die in 
> the asphalt tar-sands. Thank God for Alpha Anywhere to lead me out of
these tar-sands.
> Were it not for that company, I would fold my tent and steal away like 
> Arabs in the night (that's not a slur but a vaguely recollected poem 
> or story from Rudyard Kipling, or possibly someone else; memory fails, 
> in direct proportion to age).
> 
> A.
> 
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