Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > Right now we try to justify our existence by always moving to the next > tool, never really becoming proficient with our existing tools.
Hi Virgil, In 1995 I entered a new life as an intern in a school of Traditional Chinese Medicine. TCM had been a one-on-one, master-student discipline for centuries but by that time, at least in the US, it had become hyper-academic and the course comprised all the material in basic Western medicine (as opposed to various specialties) and all the material of TCM. Thus, our program was more contact hours, and took longer than Western Medical School. It is a year longer now than it was then. Software wise, however, the school was using Microsoft Works with Windows 3.1. I began putting all the course data in to a database in MSW 2 for dos - because the student computers were such things as 8088s with CGA. The student hardware was donated to a Foundation I had formed for the purpose. The headmaster liked the project, but the staff felt threatened that any students knew how to use MSW, even MSW 2 for dos. It developed that the people you thought knew the software, didn't really know the software so the student volunteers were regularly showing up the staff - and the pettiness around that! I was learning software as I was learning medicine, from anyone who would teach me. I would use the tool preferred by my mentors. Thus the project began in MSW 2 for dos, then Lotus Approach 3 for Windows, then FPD and finally Visual Fox Pro 5, which I bought shrink-wrapped with my own money, once the hardware was available to support it. I had great fun with VFP 5 and the VFP Community local and online. I had screen after screen made. When I tried to point the screens to the data, however, I discovered a mismatch. The data came from the text while the screens came from the syllabus. I was attempting to sort that out when MS decided that we couldn't be allowed to use Windows 95 under pain of lawsuit even though we had bought the disks fair and square and that ended the project. I have posted about this again and again on Profox, no need to rehash it now. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
