/Never truly functional app/ So, real world experience!
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 3:36 PM Kurt @ Gmail <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ;) > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Ted Roche > >>> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > >>> http://www.tedroche.com > >>> > >>> > >>> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > >>> multipart/alternative > >>> text/plain (text body -- kept) > >>> text/html > >>> --- > >>> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/CAAwxvUncFdMn1xbm3S1D8-kcDwZVSCaG=qpjf-asrx7quie...@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.
