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
Ah that's terrible. He always seemed like a very nice fella.
RIP
Sad to hear. I didn't know him but a good contributor to the forum.
Peter
On 11/10/2017 10:32, Dave Crozier 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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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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On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:32 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.
Sorry to hear of Allen's passing. I never had the pleasure of meeting him personally, but appreciated his strong-held and thoughtful opinions.
Sad news indeed ....
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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
Rest in peace
From: Dave Crozier DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 5:32 AM Subject: Sad news...
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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Prayers for his family. Paul
Sent from my iPhone
On 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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Sad news.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Paul H. Tarver paul@tpcqpc.com wrote:
Prayers for his family. Paul
Sent from my iPhone
On 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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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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I'll miss him. We had conversations on IRC about many things. I never met him in person though.
May he be remembered for the good and happy things he brought to this world.
Tracy
On October 11, 2017 8:17:57 AM EDT, 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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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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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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On 10/11/2017 5:32 AM, Dave Crozier 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.
I am so sorry to hear this. My condolences to his family and friends.
On Oct 11, 2017, at 4:32 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk wrote:
RIP Allen
It’s always surprising when you learn of the death of someone you only knew electronically - it feels just as strong as with those for whom you did have the pleasure of meeting in person. I’ll miss having him around here.
-- Ed Leafe
On 2017-10-11 14:33, Ed Leafe wrote:
On Oct 11, 2017, at 4:32 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk wrote:
RIP Allen
It’s always surprising when you learn of the death of someone you only knew electronically - it feels just as strong as with those for whom you did have the pleasure of meeting in person. I’ll miss having him around here.
-- Ed Leafe
Agreed. This is like a fraternity of sorts. A kindred brotherhood (and to the female members as well).
That is really sad news, I wish I'd known him better. Sadly this sort of news becomes all too frequent for those of us on the wrong side of 'three-score years and ten'.
On 11-Oct-2017 3:02 PM, Dave Crozier 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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Really sorry to hear of another one leaving our ranks. May he rest in peace.
On Oct 11, 2017 05:32, "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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RIP Al.
On 12-Oct-17 4:28 PM, Fred Taylor wrote:
Really sorry to hear of another one leaving our ranks. May he rest in peace.
On Oct 11, 2017 05:32, "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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RIP Allen. You were a good contributor here and will be missed. Pull some strings with the Big Guy upstairs to reinvigorate VFP for us. ;-)
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