I had the pleasure of meeting him when he came into Memphis to deal with one of his customers, Federal Express.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow Profoxers, > I have just been told of some unfortunate news regarding our colleague > Allen Pollard (known as Al by most people) who has unfortunately departed > to the to the great database in the sky after a short protracted illness. > > Al was a great entrepreneur and specialised in generating systems for > airports to handle all their movements (hence his company name > gatwicksoftware) as well as being a good personal friend. He loved VFP with > avengence and made it do things that other developers said was impossible. > > We first met many years ago in the UK at a local VFP developers conference > in London and went on to meet regularly in Prague at the now defunct > Devcons. IN recent years he had moved over to first Spain, then France and > had painstakingly restored a set of gites which I unfortunately never got > to visit despite making many plans to fly over there and land at his local > airfield in Brittany. > > After having had contact with fellow Profoxer Jean Laermans recently, I > was made aware of Al's deteriorating condition - he had been diagnosed with > an incurable brain tumour. I tried to contact him via the social media we > had used in the past but to no avail and now find that he was too ill to > participate. I fondly remember our Jam session nights playing guitars when > he was in the UK and our drunken sessions in Prague as well as him > constantly being mistaken for Eric Clapton. > > He will be sorely missed on both the programming front as well as the > personal one and I shall miss his banter very much. > > RIP Allen > > Dave Crozier > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmyjxj+4+ecdeha6xdb9zvfnamxxvvjwxsafaiwbzrj_...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
