I wanted to start a thread on the developers/employees who use to work
at Nantucket and/or Clipper after CA bought Clipper. I would like to
know what you have been doing after your clipper days. Are you
retired, master another development platform, on the lecture tour,
ect.. Also, people who wrote Clipper books and commercial libraries. Here are some names of people that come to mind.
Savannah Brentnall
Rick Spence
Richard McConnell
Brian Russell
Kevin Shepherd
Jon P. Rognerud
Dennis Dias
David Dodson
Fred Ho
Steve Stantley
Al Acker
Greg Lief
These are just a few names. I sure that are plenty more. So if you
know anything about these or other persons that work on Clipper. Then lets play "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?"
Hi Alvin,
Well unfortunately I am not sure who even still monitor this NG
anymore. You might want to post this message in the following forums:
comp.lang.xharbour
c.l.c.visual-objects
www.xsharp.eu
Of these only xharbout/xsharp are having regular posts.
Of the names, Al Acker is still around. Last had contact with him
approx 3 years ago. Moved onto XBase++ then Vulcan.NET.
I, although I will not classify myself in the WHO'S WHO list of Clipper
have moved on from there to VO/Vulcan.NET/XSharp. Am now 100% committed
to using XSharp (X#).
[Trying to] Keep XBase alive in South Africa... :-)
Johan Nel
George, South Africa.
On 2019/01/30 23:39, Clipper_Lives wrote:
I wanted to start a thread on the developers/employees who use to work
at Nantucket and/or Clipper after CA bought Clipper. I would like to
know what you have been doing after your clipper days. Are you
retired, master another development platform, on the lecture tour,
ect.. Also, people who wrote Clipper books and commercial libraries. Here are some names of people that come to mind.
Savannah Brentnall
Rick Spence
Richard McConnell
Brian Russell
Kevin Shepherd
Jon P. Rognerud
Dennis Dias
David Dodson
Fred Ho
Steve Stantley
Al Acker
Greg Lief
These are just a few names. I sure that are plenty more. So if you
know anything about these or other persons that work on Clipper. Then lets play "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?"
I wrote a Sports Statistics app in Clipper for capturing and viewing of cricket, rugby, soccer and tennis matches and F1 grands prix, which is still being downloaded from my web site decades after I first wrote it
Also from South Africa and possibly the only other Clipper / VO / XSharp developer still here from SA.
On Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:51:12 UTC+2, Rich Pilks wrote:--
I'm now working mostly in C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server.
- Paul Kilfoil
www.paulkilfoil.co.za
Hi Paul,
Good to hear there are still some South African Clipper heads lurking around.
Well, maybe you should join the latest Clipper trend. XSharp (X#)...
See the link in my signature.
Hey Johanon it.
Well, I can no longer call myself a "Clipper Head" - last time I compiled that freeware app of mine was in July 2013! I've thrown my hat into the C#/ASP.NET/SQL ring. Although X# does sound like a pretty good initiative and I'll certainly keep an eye
These are just a few names. I sure that are plenty more. So if you
know anything about these or other persons that work on Clipper. Then lets play "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?"
I wanted to start a thread on the developers/employees who use to work
at Nantucket and/or Clipper after CA bought Clipper. I would like to
know what you have been doing after your clipper days. Are you
retired, master another development platform, on the lecture tour,
ect.. Also, people who wrote Clipper books and commercial libraries. Here are some names of people that come to mind.
Savannah Brentnall
Rick Spence
Richard McConnell
Brian Russell
Kevin Shepherd
Jon P. Rognerud
Dennis Dias
David Dodson
Fred Ho
Steve Stantley
Al Acker
Greg Lief
These are just a few names. I sure that are plenty more. So if you
know anything about these or other persons that work on Clipper. Then lets play "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?"
On 30/9/2020 11:44 AM, George Jereza wrote:a hobby. But I'm not sure if it'll work though without POTS line (plain old telephone service) connected to the Xircom modems in the laptops. Maybe I'll read some old dBase, 123, WP books for fun. Amazon here I come!
After my Clipper and SysOp days, I ran a Novell network running another legacy platform called Advanced Revelation (AREV) for a Fortune 100 company. Now that I'm retired from IT management, I'm very tempted to pick up building that PC with the BBS as
There are TCP/IP modem gateway programs to make your BBS accessible from internet, in addition to dial-up modems.
Check out this BBS: http://smartiesbbs.no-ip.org/
Talk to its sysop if needed.
After my Clipper and SysOp days, I ran a Novell network running another legacy platform called Advanced Revelation (AREV) for a Fortune 100 company. Now that I'm retired from IT management, I'm very tempted to pick up building that PC with the BBS as ahobby. But I'm not sure if it'll work though without POTS line (plain old telephone service) connected to the Xircom modems in the laptops. Maybe I'll read some old dBase, 123, WP books for fun. Amazon here I come!
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