Subj : Rise and fall of BBSes
To   : Pbmountaincat
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 10:24 am

  Re: Rise and fall of BBSes
  By: Pbmountaincat to SAM ALEXANDER on Tue Sep 27 2005 10:40 pm

 > SA>Thanks for the congrats :)  With the wedding planning, if we can survive
 > SA>this we can survive anything together.  hehe It's crazy!  Also my fiancee
 > SA>isn't a computer person by any means, but she knows her way around both
 > SA>Windows and OSX rather well plus she's done some web programming in the
 > 
 > My wife knows alittle about computers, I took cards out and had her say
 > what they were and where they would go.
 > 
 > We have a small fish tank online, working on a web site for her, an now
 > a BBS. Sounds like my plate is full. Lol.  Not too full for things I
 > like to work on.  Reading a book, I fall asleep right away, my wife can
 > read several books a week.
 > 
 > Programming, I like dbase using clipper to compile my programs, I've
 > taken Visual Basic years ago, wrote a few things for work but haven't
 > figured out databases and networkable.  Dbase was easier.
 > 
Hi Philip

Sounds like we're in the same boat for the most part.  My future-wife loves 
to read novels and such (she finished the latest Harry Potter book in two 
nights!), but me, I'd rather read a good magazine or something I can finish 
in 20-30 minutes.  Used to be Boardwatch and Computer Shopper, but now it's 
mainly Linux Journal or Magazine or some science magazine.

As for programming I picked-up Basic on the ol' TRS-80 in Jr High and moved 
to C++ and Pascal under MS-DOS in High School.  Back in the day I could 
write a mean program with Borland C++ 3.5 for DOS, but that's been MANY 
years.  I've looked through some programs I wrote back then, and most is 
greek now :)  Now'days the bulk of my programming is PHP or ColdFusion and 
for me instead of dbase it's MS SQL.  I also took a VB class about 3 years 
ago to try and get into modern OOP, but the class was slow and literally 
tought in a semester what I could've learned in a few weekends.  

For now my goal is to get back into C++ and maybe some Java to write some 
apps for Sync.  I still haven't grasped the concept of GUI programming since 
everythign I've written was for command line, so this should be somewhat 
easier then learning something like VB or VC++.

Take care,

Sam

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