Hi everyone, my name is Simon and I live in Nottingham, UK. I am a 62 year old husband, father and grandfather. My main hobby is photography. I enjoy all kinds of music from the 70s onwards. My tastes are eclectic. My favourite band is Rush (RIP Neil Peart) - but you're just as likely to hear me singing along to catchy songs on the radio - Shake it off by Taylor Swift for example!! I enjoy movies mainly action or comedies. I like TV also - massive fan of The Big Bang Theory.
I started with computer programming (as it was called in the mid70s) at school/college in Basic and a little Fortran. After University I started out as a COBOL programmer and then RPG/2. Database programmer came along later starting out with DbaseIII and Clipper. I got into Access more by accident than design. I worked in corporate IT management for 20 years after 10 years of software development. About 12 years ago I burned out and took early retirement. I got a job based around Photography but my boss found out that I had some coding experience (by this time I had been developing websites for fun and using some VBA in access too).
This lead to me doing some work for the small company that I was working for which essentially runs its business on Access. When I got hold of it, it was running on Access 97 (this was in 2011) - getting the database upgraded to a current level was the first job - then getting away from 5 users sharing the database via windows sharing on my boss' PC. So, next up was to split the database into a frontend and backend, with the backend on a server.
Over the last decade I have added a great deal of functionality to the database and it serves the business well.
I don't regard myself as an expert at all, but I have worked out how to get a lot of stuff to work
and if I can share any of that experience then I am happy to do so.
I started with computer programming (as it was called in the mid70s) at school/college in Basic and a little Fortran. After University I started out as a COBOL programmer and then RPG/2. Database programmer came along later starting out with DbaseIII and Clipper. I got into Access more by accident than design. I worked in corporate IT management for 20 years after 10 years of software development. About 12 years ago I burned out and took early retirement. I got a job based around Photography but my boss found out that I had some coding experience (by this time I had been developing websites for fun and using some VBA in access too).
This lead to me doing some work for the small company that I was working for which essentially runs its business on Access. When I got hold of it, it was running on Access 97 (this was in 2011) - getting the database upgraded to a current level was the first job - then getting away from 5 users sharing the database via windows sharing on my boss' PC. So, next up was to split the database into a frontend and backend, with the backend on a server.
Over the last decade I have added a great deal of functionality to the database and it serves the business well.
I don't regard myself as an expert at all, but I have worked out how to get a lot of stuff to work
and if I can share any of that experience then I am happy to do so.
