Mike Wolfe

Husband, father, and US Army combat veteran. Graduated with a B.S. in computer science from West Point in 2002. Owner and president at Grandjean & Braverman, Inc. since 2016.

📍 Prompton, PA (US)

Version Control

High Wire Walking With No Net

In those early days, our method of "source control" was making regular copies of the front-end database and appending a date to the filename. This was....less than ideal. The problem is best illustrated with a quick story.

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Reverence for Backwards Compatibility

A feature that was heavily used by a very small percentage of power users has been maintained over the course of five subsequent upgrades (and counting). Now that is showing reverence to backwards compatibility.

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Sympathy for the devil?

Microsoft Access is not the devil. You can use it to write great software. You can use it to write crappy software. I'm here to help you write more of the former and less of the latter.