I have no formal programming education either, being a self taught. I had the chance to laid my hands on a 286/16Mhz computer back in 1992 and that thing had a copy of dBaseIII+ installed on it. It was love at first sight and here I am, 18 years later.
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Stephen Weeks <[email protected]>wrote: > > I started around 20 years ago, to tell the truth I got into software > development by deception ... I had been unemployed for around 6 months > during a recession, I told a local computer company that I knew how to > develop in Informix 4GL, of course I had never heard of it. My thinking > at the time was "At least I will get a months salary before they catch > on that I'm fake", day 1, I picked up the Informix 4GL manual and by the > end of the day I had a customer module developed ? > In the ensuing years I developed a job costing application in Informix > 4GL on the Unix operating system and found a company in Belfast that > wanted to take it on and sell it, with me as an employee. During the > marketing of this we discovered that (1) Informix 4GL runs like a dog in > DOS/Windows (2) The vast majority of users had PC's/Windows. We searched > for the best Windows/DOS development tool and came up with Foxpro 2.6 I > believe, the product was redeveloped and to this day I'm still a fake :) > > Absolutely no formal education. > > Regards > Steve > -- > Stephen Weeks > [email protected] > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
