27-I-2004.

Wrote this to Jack on 27th:

In class browser, the code which exports into ViewCode.prg (procedure brwExportClass in browser.prg) outputs the code prefixed by nothing (when the code belongs to the top level class) or just the object name (when it belongs to a member). However, when it's anything deeper than one level of containership, this isn't enough. If you have Command1 in five containers on several pages on a pageframe, where does the "Procedure command1.click" go? Now if we apply this fix, we get "Procedure Formname.Pageframe.Page2.Command1.Click", which is then enough for my builder to pinpoint the commandbutton whose code it is.

And I've stumbled upon a problem and fixed it - by changing one line in class browser.

He replied

Looks cool. Yes, the containership issue in the Class Browser is well known. If you have no objections, I’ll pass this along to Grant for possible inclusion into fox 9.0

And so it was, it's there. It's a bit strange, though - these couple of lines are there, but commented out and the old code still runs. The filedates are from december 2004, and the comment reads

„* RMK - 2004/05/11 - per ID 233847, added code to put in full object hierarchy here“.

Well, so much for my place in the history of fox.

On 28th, a private message on UA, from David: „Just sent you an email, because I couldn't find how to send you a message like this. Could we chat? Or talk by phone?“. And the email came three minutes before that, and I replied after dinner:

Would New York be ok with you?

... and joining a team and working with people who know probably 1 millionth of what you know?

Or that you are looking for a job is just old news?

Well you may remember me from the universal thread. I'm David ... from Belgium... and yes there are more Davids in Belgium, I'm just one of them, and I'm in need of someone who will continue development worldwide of software in fox8.

If you give me a phonenr, I'll call you.

I'm taking my time with looking for a job this time. The times are slow, but I've also learned to live slowly - and waiting for a good opportunity.

So, of course I'm interested! 1-757-555-2257, any time up to 21:00 CET. Yes that's 3AM here - being without work, I've naturally fallen under my own influence and my 26 hour cycle, so I stay up very long. Just call, I'd like to hear some different accent.

... aka resume, attached. Don't know why they call that resume, and call the resume a "recap" (from "recapitulation"). But then, we aren't in the business of fixing the American ways, we are in the programming.

Two minutes later he called and we talked for some half an hour. Considering that the call from Belgium to USA still isn't cheap, well, a good sign.

So, it's a jewish family business. The name, i.e. the surname (of Jüzek and guess his brother) sounds polish or more to the east. They polish the diamonds and literally lie on them. A very specific business, and now they began to expand into jewelry as well, and to open extra divisions in Newyork, Japan and China. So, David wrote an app for the NY office, something quick and dirty, which they didn't find fitting and bought a ready made one. That one was actually worse, so now they're interested into finishing his code to meet their needs. Since he can't divert so much time for them, and the business is expanding, an extra person here would be the best thing to have, and I'm an ideal match.

The talk was finished at some time around 18:00 or 19:00 european (don't know whether Belgium is on centraleuropean or greenwichian time), in the next day or two he's supposed to talk with his bosses, the „I found a guy, so now let's see what to do“. Sounds both attractive and quite silly, and they can't go bust unless they'd really want to, the firm is some fifty years old. What will be will be.

If he manages to convince them staunch* Jews that they need yet another heathen programmer... this could be very good. By 22:44 I sent a polished CV to him, and also my text (actually a scenario for a lecture, possibly for some future convention) on my half-baked builders, to one Tim Russ (probably a guy in the organization of the next convention).

Berix also wrote

all went well when Tshooter shipped, and i got a check from eHosp yesterday so i plan on getting your check and fox8 sent your way tomorrow.

and I'm finally getting back to your v2.0 testing feedback (see below). I've long forgotten where i was at with this before tshooter and/or what i did if anything after you sent me this. So searching thru my mailbox, look's like everything you documented for me from testing effort is in the message below. And the date stamps on my project documents is all prior to this message... so looks it's just this email message i need to process. This sound right to you? We didnt do any documentation on this stuff right?

Whatever that tshooter was. A troubleshooter?

On thirtieth our local newspaper at home published my second article about life in the US, this time about the grub. Where I recounted everything I could think of, that was already on sGradlj.com in some shape (though still probably on Yahoo, I wasn't a dot com yet) - about american passion for garlic, about cheese of skimmed and boiled milk, about bread one can't eat without a toaster (to which Škrba once said „wanna see you once eating it with a toaster“) etc. Joška is the web admin of the paper's site, and this way even became a source of content. Writer exists, he managed the finding thereof.

These days Ricardo visited once, to be fingerprinted in Norfolk, on his path from green card to citizenship. No pictures were taken, though.

From correspondence with dad, about Richmond, weather and anything:

This semester I somehow weaseled my way out to find a parking spot in front of their building or the next, but this time the luck had it that the church occupied the whole street (while, of course, keeping most of its own lot vacant), and the basketball match filled the [parking] garage. During previous semesters I regularly had to park in the garage. Guess the students' standard fell so now they have fewer cars. Where the car itself is the least expense; a second hand [one] can always be found under thousand dollars, run for a year and sold for five hundred. The larger problem is parking here in downtown. And the gas jumped up again, devil alone may know why. Allegedly a pipeline was sabotaged, so most of the oil goes around Black Sea, and the Bosphor and Dardanelles are the bottleneck, specially with some storm going on there (we saw Acropolis barely visible from the Athens), so the gas went up to almost dollar and a half per gallon.

On the gas, dad said „when you compare that price with ours of almost 0,90$ per liter, that's darn cheap“. In other news, Borče's younger daughter married and he should be a grandfather soon.

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* „zalupan“ - actually untranslatable, but, roughly, beaten until the dents caved in; also can be related to whisking the eggs

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Mentions: Cecilia Roxbury (Berix), David Krakovski, eHosp, fox, Gradivoj Škrbić (Škrba), Grant Laurel, Jack Baran, Joška Apro, Mališa Borkovski (Borče), Ricardo Manuel Bariero (Ricardo), sGradlj.com, UbiquAgora (UA), Yisaac Kwiatnik (Jüzek), in serbian

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