> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John Weller > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: How did you get your start in FoxPro? > > we started as I could not get my head around the Foundation Read (I still > don't understand it.).
I feel your pain.... I was the same way until I locked myself in a room for 3 days until I understood it... the lure of beer and women got me out of the room and I STILL don't think I fully got it.... <g> Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, 1985, Focus on Numerical Methods & Mathematical Statistics (I'm a number crunching kinda guy). I had no real world programming experience (school was Pascal, Fortran, Basic and others) but came out from upstate NY for a few weeks to move my girlfriend back with me to go to Syracuse. While out here in Oregon wanted to pick up some bucks so asked a friend who's dad owned a computer store if I could sweep floors or whatever. He remembered I had a technical degree and asked if I wanted to write some code since he was too busy to do it - I said sure. So I got paid to learn dBase III and write the app (Manufacturing & Inventory control for nuclear sub hatch covers). Since my school stuff was on Apple II's and mainframes, I'll never forget staring at my first PC for over two hours trying to figure out how to turn it on, and too embarrased to ask..... Wrote the app, back to NY, bluffed my way into a consulting outfit. Discovered dBXL and switched to that, then later stumbled into Foxbase. Moved back out to Oregon and once again bluffed my way into a consulting gig, this time FoxPro DOS. Later went on to do about 8 years worth of SBT Accounting dev work and consulting. More stuff in VFP after that until jobs/career took me away from VFP for the most part about 5 years ago. All in all I'd say I did close to 17 years in Foxbase/FoxPro/VFP. Yes, I've been lurking here ever since.... ;) Just can't let go... Thanks, Matthew Jarvis || Business Systems Analyst IT Department McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center 1460 G Street, Springfield, OR 97477 || Ph: 541-744-6092 || Fax: 541-744-6145 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This electronic message may contain information that is Proprietary, Confidential, or legally privileged or protected. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity named in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information it contains. _______________________________________________ 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/69f310c05dd83c48a84ba3769ce1ecf803023...@tntriexevs02.triadhospitals.net ** 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.
