In the midst of life... RIP
Laurie
On 11 October 2017 at 14:46, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
Al was a great guy. We worked together in web services where he had to adapt his VFP app to work with shared data and his competition, maybe, created the app and allowed him to define slots for use for his customers, and book them as occupied if they were booking them. In the end, he was blending VFP and an existing java environment and it worked.
The last time I saw him, in town, he was out with his FedEx champion. That guy looked really familiar and it took a while till I put it together. That man's last name was Phillips and his uncle was Sam Phillips. If you go to Sun Studios on a tour you hear all about Sam and Elvis.
This opened up a new conversation for Al who was very much into music.
RIP Al, you will be missed.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
I had the pleasure of meeting him when he came into Memphis to deal with one of his customers, Federal Express.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@flexipol.co.uk wrote:
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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