I will keep your advice in mind. It's never a good idea to ignore a man with strong opinions. (And it's never easy being thoroughly dressed down.) --steve On Nov 19, 2012, at 3:28 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > > From: "Steven J. Messner" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: FileMaker Pro Discussions <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, November 19, 2012 3:51 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Consultant > > >>Point taken. Let's hope you're mistaken. Check back with me in a month and > >>I'll let you know how it went. Or maybe I'll be forced to get in touch with > >>you when disaster strikes. -:) > > Thanks, but I am retired; well, semi-retired. (This business is like the mob. > You can never really get out.) > > That notwithstanding, there is no chance I would ever get involved in any job > for any amount of money with these kinds of beginning requirements. > > Someone is blowing smoke up your dress, trying to sound like they know what > they are talking about when they definitely DO NOT. Building a database > simply doesn't work that way. What you describe as the "mundane tasks" are > not mundane at all. Field definitions, navigation and scripting are the easy > parts??? That is certainly news to me after nearly a quarter century in the > DB business. And field definitions are not separate from building tables, > they ARE the tables! A database is not something assembled from parts, some > made here and others made there. It takes a real top notch project director > to coordinate work done by multiple programmers so that it all fits together > and works. There are maybe two dozen people in this business all together who > can pull that off and clearly, none of them are in your employ. > > Now, as I said, I am semi-retired and have no dog in this fight. But if you > are smart, you will fire whoever is giving you this extraordinarily bad > advice, stop trying to tell developers how to correctly do the job they > already know how to do, and let someone like Corn Walker or any of dozens of > others on this list tell you the correct way to get where you want to go > without being handcuffed by your roadmap. Not only will you get there faster, > it will be much cheaper than doing it the wrong way over and over again. > > And BTW, if there is ANYTHING I know more about when it comes to FMP > programming than just about anyone else in the business, it is navigation. > See "AutoNavigator" under the products tab on our web site; I wrote the > entire thing. Putting a high quality tab and navigation system into a > database is supremely difficult: exactly the opposite of "mundane". > > It sounds like Mr. Walker might be willing to take the time to coax you along > to a more wise and productive decision and, unlike this grouchy old geezer, > do it more diplomatically. That would be one of the smartest decisions you > ever made. > > > David Kachel > Foundation Database Systems > Custom Software Developers > > Publishers of: > > "AutoNavigator for FileMaker Pro™ " > [An incredible time-saving tool for Developers - > Build tab-sets up to seven levels deep, > up to twenty layouts per level, 140 tabs per layout; > thousands of layouts without writing a single line of code. > To learn more, visit our web site (below).] > > "White Paper for FMP Novices" (a free download) > "Database Design for FMP" (a free download) > "Developer Storage" (a free download) > "Universal Capitalizer" (a free download) > "Universal Time Formatter" (a free download) > > email: [email protected] > web site: http://www.foundationdbs.com > ICQ: 308137637 > Skype: DavidKachel > iChat: [email protected] > Yahoo Messenger: davidkachel > > Tel: (432) 386-2121
