Good to hear you still have wrestle with "code"! It makes me happy to know others are enjoying the pain as much as I!

We are Samurai - or we are nothing!

>>Have you ever made a living writing VFP apps? Your business is middleware and helping EPS sell NET centric - products.
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>Oh yeah. I still do off and on.
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>For one thing you don't just start creating tools or selling anything unless you understand the tools and the market and the business.
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>>I am not challenging. I had a project once - in the cube on one side of me was a guy who wrote C programs for chips and designed cards for specialized systems. I wrote desktop guis (not foxpro or xBase). He had no Idea of how I did my job. Accross from me was a guy writing C++ DLLs - he to had no knowledge related to delivering desktop interfaces either.
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>>So to say someone with low-level (C++/BAL) development experience or connectivity engineering also has insight into how best to deliver a desktop project seems a stretch.
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>It can be but it doesn't have to be. It depends on one's skillset. I tend to think that I do pretty well in any environment, although I'll be the first to admit that heavy duty SQL and data management is not my forte. My strengths are architectual design and front ends both on Web and Desktop.
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>>Are still bidding on desktop GUI development and data management design projects?
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>My mainline is with Web applications, sure. But in addition I sell at least one complex desktop application with Help Builder which is continually being improved and also happens to be a Fox application. While not a heavy data application it's a complex UI based application.
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>My point it all depends where your focus is. I've spent a lot of time over the years familiarizing myself with lots of different technologies and development situations and I've been exposed to a large variety of projects large and small in the work that I do (these days mostly for other people and part of larger projects). I consider myself lucky to have had the chance to see and have worked on this variety of apps...
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>Does that give me perspective? I think so... It's about having a good idea about what works and what doesn't and being able to communicate that as well. You really can't easily do that unless you've looked at different approaches/technologies.
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>I can be as opinionated as the next guy <g>, but I try to be objective and fair in my evaluations and comments here and everywhere and try to back up everything with either first hand experience or numbers.