Commentary Building Your Library Thirteen years ago, I chose to maintain a folder of text files rather than a single Access database library. I've never once regretted that decision.
Commentary Past is Prologue A personal reflection on my software development journey. There's more to creating great software than knowing how to write code.
Commentary 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.
Commentary 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.