OT: Filemaker 8

[Laura Brody]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:14:37 -0500, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Laura Brody, the prominent pundit,
> witicized:
>> code (and torture-tested it for 8 years). He may be a lazy
>> husband at times, but never a lazy programmer. Once he begins
>> a project, it will be designed and coded with excellence.
>
> And, to his credit from my perspective, he also seems to not be able to
> rest until he's tracked down the source of something that's gone amiss.
> I'm betting there've been more than a few nights where you had to drag him
> to bed to get sleep because he was chasing that One Elusive Bug.

	When the new style indexes were in beta, Ken had several
"late nights" fixing bugs into the wee hours. Then there was
a problem with a customer in Austrailia. (This was dial-up days -
no internet connection. If you wanted to log into a computer
down under, you had your modem dial into it....) When all
of the issues were fixed, I understand that the phone bill
was more than it would have cost to send Ken there and back.

>
>> 	BTW, until you *do* know a bit more about filePro the
>> progam (and the company), you should make more of an effort
>> to keep your comments to yourself.
>
> C'mon, Laura!  If it weren't for the God Given Right to an uneducated
> opinion, people wouldn't think I'm half the bastard they imagine. :)
> Thankfully I usually only start out with an uneducated opinion and actually get educated along the way.

	I don't have a problem with someone talking about something
that they don't have a clue about. It was the calling Ken "lazy"
and implying that fP Tech was doing something dishonest that set
me off..... (fP Tech may be understaffed, underfunded, and
appeared to the untrained eye as one massive cluster-f*ck
but they have never screwed over customers for financial
gain). You have a bunch of good people doing the best they
can with what they got, and usually pulling it off when the
rest of the world would just say "Nope, it can't be done." and
walk away.

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Laura Brody, Publisher of the filePro Developer's Journal
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