So it's been over five years since my last entry in this blog. A lot has happened since then, personally and professionally. I am now married, I have two little daughters, and for the past four years, I have been with a company that makes inserting machines for the mailing industry, supporting and extending software that works under the Automated Document Factory (ADF) concept. I continued with the manufacturing client (an auto plant) until March 2006, developing in VB 6 and C++. I had a 3-month hiatus from consulting when my wife came from the Philippines and we had our wedding. After that, I had a couple of short-term consulting gigs with another staffing company where I was involved with creating applications based on Microsoft Office VBA-- one in Excel, the other in Access on a tablet PC. After this same staffing company sent me on yet another Access project, I decided that they were not taking me in a direction that I wanted to go, so I quit the proje...
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