Hello,
I am Garry and I was born in Bradford, in the County of West Yorkshire which is in the northern part of England. Bradford was originally a town based around the woollen industry.
Garry
While I have always had a fascination for computer hardware and software, my interest in database driven applications didn’t start until the early 90′s (showing my age a bit now !).
My first commercial Access Application was created using Microsoft Access 95, it wasn’t as comprehensive as some of the application you see nowadays but it was concise, neat and very functional.
Ease of use has always been my main aim on any project I have been connected with. I have often spent far more hours than probably justifiable getting a program to work the way I want it to, rather than go for the compromise of accepting more conventional ways of doing things. For example, many invoicing programs require you to add a customer to an address book before you can use them.. well I wanted an invoice screen where you just typed a customers name and address in the boxes provided and the customer was there to use straight away (and again in future if needed).
This desire to produce greater simplicity in my products has often lead to hours of code research and development, often made even longer because once I would work out a method of achieving something in code.. I would then work on making the code, smaller, faster and more resource efficient.
I like to think this philosophy on application development has brought to the world simple, easy to use yet robust and reliable tools that people like and enjoy using, especially when it helps speed up and streamline aspects of running a small (or even medium sized) business.
