>>>>I'm sorry to share the news of the passing of Janis Booth, who many of you will remember as Jim Booth. As Jim, Janis was the author of several books and many articles, and a long-time conference speaker and trainer in our community. I don't know any details, but here's a link to an obituary:
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>>>I had a rather interesting history with him. In the late nineties, my company was manning the servers of a local ISP (who had money, not people, being actually a bank), so we were the nearest to the big pipeline of whopping 64kbps. Whatever we didn't use was spread among up to 30 modem lines at theoretical 54KBaud. First thing we did, trying desperately to get our hands on anything to learn VFP from, were Jim's articles on multi-tier architecture at his website.
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>>>Only four years later I find myself as a member of a team where Jim is the boss. And one day he calls me on the phone (which was rare, the whole team lived on instant messaging - I guess AIM at the time) just to tell me that he needed to steal a piece of code for something, and he remembered that I worked on a similar piece a week ago. So he looked at it and liked how the code was organized, methods had clear names and scopes, he found everything right away without having to read too much. Called just to congratulate me.
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>>>To me, that was just like winning a prize from some board of masters of my own guild. To hear praise from the author of the books from which I learned, I count that as an accomplishment. Too bad we never met in person.
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>>Dragan--I'm working on a remembrance for FoxRockX. May I use your story and your name?
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>Sure. It's a matter of fox lore, which should be preserved somewhere.
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>You may use actual years - the first part, 1998; the second, 2002.

Thanks,

Tamar