You last visited: 11-11-2006! Hmmm, better sort that!

Howdy folks - I'm back! :hi: I'm Adam, and have been a developer in Access and Excel since around 1998. I signed up on this site when it first started, and then due to a change in career (moved from full-time development to be a network admin / it manager / systems analyst / jack of all trades) I kinda moved away a bit from "hard core" development and just built "simple" systems.

However, I've just changed jobs again, and am now back doing development work full time (in Access mainly, also doing a bit of Excel and am just starting to tinker with ASP.NET). I've just switched over to Office 2007, although I've spent the majority of my career developing solutions in Office 2K and 2003. (I started doing this in 1998!).

A little about me, I live in the north of the UK (East Yorkshire), am 33, and run a small business part time where I live, as well as doing full-time development work.

Not been here in ages... hi to all of you, will definitely be spending more time here now I think. And to those of you who possibly remember me - howdy ;)

Laterz :) I'm off to go snoop around some of the forums, see how the place is doing! :D

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Looking at your pevious posts it seems you were mainly active in the Off-Topics, Site, Access and Word groups, so as a mainly Excel lurker it is not surprising that we haven't crossed paths.

But welcome back, hopefully you will now be a ble to spend more time on a grown-up application (Excel) <BG> .

Is that the coastal area that you live in, Whitby, Scarborough?

Hey xld,

Actually, it was with Excel that I first cut my VBA teeth, and then progressed sideways to more system design roles - but yes I still do stuff in Excel from time to time although unfortnuately this is happining less and less these days :(

I'm about 20 miles away from Scarborough, know it well (was born in Brid and an ex is from Scarborough)... although at the moment I'm about 50 miles away as I work in Hull!

Oh, and congrats on the 10K, too!!

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I was going to say that 20 miles from Scarborough encompasses Bridlington, Driffield, Pickering and just south of Whitby, but seeing your signature (which I don't think you originally had) it must be Driffield. Anyway, it must be nice to return home after working in Hull :devil2:

Hi Adam, :hi:

Nice to have you back again!

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Anyway, it must be nice to return home after working in Hull :devil2:

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Ohhhhhh yes :devil2: lol!! You must be fairly local too then?

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Hi Adam :hi: ,

Nice to have you back again!

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Thanks! Good to be back, am hoping to be able to contrbute something valuable to this place!!

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Sort of, I am 250+ miles away, down on the South Coast.

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Sort of, I am 250+ miles away, down on the South Coast.

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Yup, that's definitely "sort of"!! lol!!:rotlaugh:

I think that our American colleagues would think that we are neighbours (and they probably think that we both live near London!)

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I think that our American colleagues would think that we are neighbours (and they probably think that we both live near London!)

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Woooaaaahhhh... wait, what, you mean we don't??? :SHOCKED:

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In that case I live just as near to London (430 km) :yes

So Hi neighbours...

LOL!

Welcome back Adam. :)

On a distance note, it goes the other way too. We had family come over from Germany... they decided that they'd fly into Vancouver (BC), have breakfast with us, and drive down to San Francisco for dinner with their son. Once we showed them how many Germanys would fit in that distance, they reconsidered. Isn't everything close in Europe? <grin>

Hi guys,

I think the world is a much smaller place than it used to be... it's all relative really, eh? I could get down to london in... oh, around 4 hours. And could get to the Netherlands in approx 2 hours I guess?

Although Vancouver to San Fran... hmmm... that is a bit of a stretch, even for someone who likes driving - what, around 1000 miles or so isn't it?? Hey, just give me a Bugatti Veyron and I'll do it in 6 hours ;)

Anyway, thanks all for the warm welcome (back)... will no doubt be posting in the forums in a while, just trying to build an Access/SQL/ASP.net thing first... the Access and SQL bits are done, but having a nightmare with the ASP side. And I guess that ain't VBA!

Have a good one y'all :)

Well what do you know.... I live near London too, but I'd hate to have to walk that far.

Welcome back Adam.