When used as a UI builder & RAD tool for accessing a real database (in this case PostgreSQL), Microsoft Access absolutely stinks. It has some severe problems that require cumbersome workarounds. In fact, if you're vaguely competent with a programming language it's almost certainly better to just write the application in your preferred language and ( Read more... )

If you have to work, doing so while sitting in bed listening to Midnight Oil and Cherry Poppin' Daddies, feeling the cool breeze and watching the rain hammer down through the windows is not the worst way to do it.

Self motivation, however, is hard to come by when faced with a project that requires the use of Microsoft Access instead of a real, ( Read more... )