Damn Eric - that is a Helluva Great Story!!! I love it!
I worked a prior job where it was a consulting co. that created database
system apps or updated/maintained existings types of apps(like SBT). It
was mostly all russian programmers - and I was essentially a project
manager - and the direct contact with many of the clients. Well, one
client - with whom I actually DID do some of the FoxPro programming work
myself - and they had Macs (it was a publisher for Wine Spectator &
Cigar Afficianado mag's). And, they were also using FileMaker. I think I
DID do some interfacing to that app - possibly to extract data - but, it
was a long time ago - so don't remember much about that job.
However, on a related note to your college experience. I actually put a
team of students together to do a special independent type project. I
think it was maybe 6 or 8 of us. Generally in pairs - like 2 worked on
creating the GUI, 2 of us doing the coding for the mathematical data
manipulation (the whole app was a CG type app - allowing interesting
experimentation with mathematical types of CG) - and 2 of them were
doing documentation. It was all based upon an art type class I took at a
previous college. And, the head of the comp. dept. liked my idea of
making an app and running it as a kind of independent study course for a
team of students. So - yup - we got credit for doing it. Sadlly - I hate
to admit it - it didn't work out too well - and I don't think we ever
properly finished a truly functional app...
-K-
On 9/2/2019 6:06 AM, Eric Selje wrote:
Here's a fun, related story.
In college I was in the sailing club, and they used a spreadsheet to keep
track of membership. They only had Macs in the boathouse. I wrote a
membership tracker in FPW 2.6 and then walked a floppy over to the
boathouse and ran the app, unmodified, on their Mac that had FoxPro.
As I was about to graduate, I met with my advisor and it turned out I was
One Credit short of my requirements. I just about panicked, but he asked me
about any independent work I'd been doing for the University. I told him
about my project for the sailing club, and he gave me a credit of
independent study. Boom - FoxPro helped me get my degree in Computer
Science.
A few years later I went into the boathouse. They'd already updated their
membership tracking app to something else using FileMaker. I wonder if
whoever did that got credit?
Eric
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 8:43 PM Michael Oke, II <[email protected]> wrote:
It was, after a fashion, ancient history. I remember creating a Mac 3.0 app
from a DOS app. Fun times.
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 08:43 Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 11:16 AM John Weller <[email protected]>
wrote:
I should have remembered!
Well, it is ANCIENT history, at this point. :)
(and I had been shipping commercial apps for 20 years then ;)
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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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