I had good discussions with Allen about the future of VFP; nice debator with an open and pragmatic mind and, I learnt recently, Francophile.
Condolences to his family.
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Le 11/10/2017 à 11:32, Dave Crozier a écrit :
Fellow Profoxers, I have just been told of some unfortunate news regarding our colleague Allen Pollard (known as Al by most people) who has unfortunately departed to the to the great database in the sky after a short protracted illness.
Al was a great entrepreneur and specialised in generating systems for airports to handle all their movements (hence his company name gatwicksoftware) as well as being a good personal friend. He loved VFP with avengence and made it do things that other developers said was impossible.
We first met many years ago in the UK at a local VFP developers conference in London and went on to meet regularly in Prague at the now defunct Devcons. IN recent years he had moved over to first Spain, then France and had painstakingly restored a set of gites which I unfortunately never got to visit despite making many plans to fly over there and land at his local airfield in Brittany.
After having had contact with fellow Profoxer Jean Laermans recently, I was made aware of Al's deteriorating condition - he had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour. I tried to contact him via the social media we had used in the past but to no avail and now find that he was too ill to participate. I fondly remember our Jam session nights playing guitars when he was in the UK and our drunken sessions in Prague as well as him constantly being mistaken for Eric Clapton.
He will be sorely missed on both the programming front as well as the personal one and I shall miss his banter very much.
RIP Allen
Dave Crozier
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